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MaddowBlog-Jan. 6 plaque, rejected by House GOP leaders, finds unexpected new home on Capitol Hill [View all]
The display to honor officers who protected the Capitol will be temporarily installed on the Senate side of the building.
Jan. 6 plaque, rejected by House GOP leaders, finds unexpected new home on Capitol Hill - MS NOW
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At that point, it was widely assumed that the plaque would remain out of sight for the foreseeable future. Those assumptions, however, proved wrong. Roll Call reported:
To briefly recap, after the insurrectionist violence five years ago, Congress agreed to install a permanent plaque to honor the law enforcement personnel who helped protect the U.S. Capitol against pro-Trump rioters. By statute, the plaque was to be placed on the western side of the building by March 2023 and list the names of those who served.
That deadline lapsed almost three years ago. The plaque is done and ready to be installed, but it’s sitting in a Capitol basement utility room surrounded by tools and maintenance equipment.....
As for its future location, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told NBC News this week that the plaque would be properly installed after the 2026 midterm elections should Democrats win back the majority in the chamber.
“Just wait 10 more months. [House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries] will be speaker, and we will place it in the place of honor,” the California Democrat said on the anniversary of the riot.
Asked where it would go, Pelosi added, “Speaker Jeffries will decide that.”
A long-delayed plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will temporarily hang in the Senate side, after a resolution was adopted by unanimous consent Thursday afternoon.
‘We owe them eternal gratitude, and this nation is stronger because of them,’ Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on the floor.
To briefly recap, after the insurrectionist violence five years ago, Congress agreed to install a permanent plaque to honor the law enforcement personnel who helped protect the U.S. Capitol against pro-Trump rioters. By statute, the plaque was to be placed on the western side of the building by March 2023 and list the names of those who served.
That deadline lapsed almost three years ago. The plaque is done and ready to be installed, but it’s sitting in a Capitol basement utility room surrounded by tools and maintenance equipment.....
As for its future location, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi told NBC News this week that the plaque would be properly installed after the 2026 midterm elections should Democrats win back the majority in the chamber.
“Just wait 10 more months. [House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries] will be speaker, and we will place it in the place of honor,” the California Democrat said on the anniversary of the riot.
Asked where it would go, Pelosi added, “Speaker Jeffries will decide that.”
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