On the recordMay 18, 2023
I thank the ranking member for being so eloquent on where we are today. Let me read the headline of this legislation, H. Con. Res. 40, expressing support for local law enforcement officers. Broadly supported all across America. Every day we are supporting our local law enforcement, but as well we are supporting our Federal law enforcement that are right in my district today holding a meeting, men and women who put their lives on the line. I don't know why we couldn't on this last day of National Police Week, as we began the week, as I indicated, and repeat over and over again, that I was there for this ceremony that I have gone to every year, which has honored those who have fallen in battle. They had everyone represented. Everyone was in brotherhood and sisterhood. Everyone was embracing families and those in law enforcement. No one asked for your Democratic ticket or your Republican ticket. All they were grateful for is you had come to honor and recognize the importance of the work that they do. This could have been a place where we showed to the Nation the reasoning of our hearts and our minds. I offered an amendment to include Federal law enforcement. How dare we ignore them on this day? We cannot ignore January 6. We cannot ignore the Capitol Police, along with those who came to help, who will always have the scars of that horrific day. Why? Because we have never seen in our modern-day eyes an attack on the United States Capitol that was not in war.…
