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On the recordMay 14, 2021
I remind the House that we were under attack on January 6. Earlier this week a freshman Republican said that January 6 could have been seen as just a typical tourist day in the Capitol. Well, let me tell that gentleman that on typical tourist days in the Capitol, 100 policemen aren't beaten by people who try to enter the Capitol when it is closed to public attendance because of the coronavirus. On typical tourist days, people don't put excrement on the walls of the Capitol of the United States. On typical tourist days, people don't urinate on the floors of the Capitol of the United States. On typical days, people don't batter down the windows on the outside to breach the Capitol. On typical days, people don't batter down the doors and the glass entering the Speaker's lobby, resulting in one person's death. And if that person wasn't dead, they would have breached the floor of the House and God knows what they would have done if they could have found a person in the House. They were hollering, ``Hang Mike Pence,'' ``Nancy Pelosi, where are you? We are here.'' That was an insurrection. That was an attack on our Constitution. It should never be forgotten by anybody who was serving in the Congress, by any American because our liberty, our Constitution, our country, our values were on the line. ____________________
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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