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Capitol Police investigated around 9,600 threats to members of Congress in 2021. There have been several high-profile attacks on lawmakers in recent years, including the shootings of Steve Scalise, a Republican, at a baseball practice in 2017 and Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, at a campaign event in 2011.