Amy Klobuchar: “I come to the floor today to speak about how we must pass emergency security supplemental appropriations legislation to…”

“I come to the floor today to speak about how we must pass emergency security supplemental appropriations legislation to deliver needed funding to the Capitol Police and the National Guard. Anyone who watched yesterday the moving testimony of the officers who protected this Capitol, I think, understands that we cannot wait. I appreciate the efforts by my colleagues both over in the House as well as here in the Senate, Appropriations Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Shelby, as well as Senator Blunt who works with me on the Rules Committee, to reach a bipartisan proposal on this critical funding issue, and we should pass this agreement without delay. But after passing this important legislation, we must also continue to work to ensure that all the funding needs in the aftermath of January 6 are met, including with respect to funding for the Justice Department to bring those who participated in the insurrection to justice and to ensure there is sufficient funding for security improvement for the Capitol. When an angry, violent mob staged an insurrection on January 6 and desecrated this Chamber, the temple of our democracy--what they did over in the House, what they did in the hallways, spray-painted on the columns, the Parliamentarian office in shreds--it was an attack on our Republic itself.…”