Hakeem Jeffries Calls Out Speaker Mike Johnson Over Missing Jan. 6 Plaque
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Congress was supposed to put up a plaque honoring police officers who fought Donald Trump's mob, but there's been a holdup.
WASHINGTON ― House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for stalling on installing a plaque to honor police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Congress blew a statutory deadline to put up the plaque somewhere on the Capitol grounds last year, and this month Democrats began to complain about the holdup.
“It’s time for House Republicans to honor the men and women of law enforcement who saved lives that day,” Jeffries said at a press conference, standing next to an image of the apparently finished plaque.
A law Congress passed in 2022 required various committees to gather the names of officers who responded to the mob riot of Donald Trump supporters upset about his election loss. Jeffries said that work had been completed, the plaque had been built, and that it’s up to Johnson to hang it up somewhere.
“It simply awaits a decision by the Republican majority to have an appropriate ceremony of recognition and have it placed in a location of honor here in the United States Capitol,” Jeffries said.
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