LEADER JEFFRIES DURING POLICE WEEK: “IT’S TIME TO HONOR THOSE HEROIC OFFICERS”

Washington, DC - Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to the House floor to hold House Republicans accountable for refusing to follow the law and honor the heroes who protected the United States Capitol on January 6.

JEFFRIES: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on House Administration be discharged from further consideration of H.Con.Res.33, a bill directing the Architect of the Capitol to install at a permanent location on the Western Front of the United States Capitol building, an honorific plaque listing the names of all of the officers of the United States Capitol Police, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities who responded to the violence that occurred at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and ask for its immediate consideration of the House. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry?

This is Police Week, pursuant to Public Law 87-726, enacted on October 1 of 1962. Police Week here in the United States Congress, where Congress honors the courage, the bravery, the service, the sacrifice and the heroism of members of law enforcement. Is that correct?

Do the House rules require compliance with the 2022 Public Law 117-103, signed by the President at the time, that requires a plaque listing the name of all police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 to be placed on the Western Front of the Capitol building? Do the House rules require compliance with that public law?

We appear to be in violation of the House rules, given that the law that was passed in 2022 required that a plaque honoring those heroic police officers be placed on the Western Front of the Capitol building no later than March 15, 2023. But 791 days have passed, and this Republican Congress has refused to comply with the law. It's time to honor those heroic officers. It's unconscionable, it's unpatriotic, it's unfathomable, it's unacceptable and it's un-American. And you need to honor those officers and treat them with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

Full exchange can be watched here.

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