Madam Speaker, lastly, I would like to close, speaking to some of the individuals who have already been mentioned, and some of the folks who have already been mentioned in prior remarks: our staff, our Capitol Police, our House clerks, we…

so that every time a Republican says we need to move on and forget about it, they are reminded about what they`re trying to absolve and excuse.

To every single staff member of the United States Congress, we thank you. To our food service workers, we thank you. To our custodial workers sweeping up the glass on the floor shattered by white supremacists, cleaning up after their mess…

I couldn't help but notice how time and again concerns about the child separation policy were raised by government officials during the time, only to be dismissed by Attorney General Sessions and his top DOJ advisors.

Then I hear these huge violent bangs on my door and then every door going into my office. There were no yells, no one saying who they were, nobody identifying themselves and just boom, boom, boom. I hide back in the bathroom behind the…

I think that really gets to the heart of this matter, which is that this was a deliberate choice.

We knew that violence was expected on the sixth. We knew that that violence was predicated on someone telling the lie, the big lie about our elections.

We knew in advance that violence was planned. We knew that that violence needed someone to tell the lie.

They chose to tell the lie.

We cannot move on without accountability. We cannot heal without accountability.

Anyone who tells you that we couldn`t have seen this coming is lying to you.