Better than that might be an internet-free LoJack. Finding a laptop thief might be at least as valuable as retaining the encrypted information that's on disk.
Edit: Also, stealing a laptop that belongs to the office of the US Speaker of the House will essentially never end well. There are endless examples to suggest that yesterday's fracas wasn't thought-through by the participants. This is one of them.
There's also plenty of evidence that it was planned, like people openly planning doing exactly this on forums. They had merch printed up. It was Trump who either wasn't in on the planning or got cold feet when the time for the actual coup came.