During a week honoring police nationwide, House Democrats called on Republicans to install a memorial closer to home — a long-delayed plaque for officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The plaque was authorized as part of the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending law and was supposed to be placed on the West Front of the Capitol within a year of enactment, which would have been March 15, 2023. But so far, it hasn’t happened.
“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,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said from the House floor Wednesday afternoon, to scattered applause from his Democratic colleagues.
