Senate votes to display Jan. 6 plaque after House GOP refuses to hang it at Capitol

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Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday unanimously agreed to hang a plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol when it was under attack by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6 five years ago.

The resolution requires the Architect of the Capitol “to prominently display, in a publicly accessible location in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol, a plaque honoring the members of law enforcement responding on January 6, 2021, until the plaque can be placed in its permanent location.”

The bipartisan resolution was introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to hang the plaque as required by a 2022 federal law. Johnson’s office has argued that the law was “not implementable” because the legislative language from that bill said the plaque should display the names of officers who protected the Capitol, while the plaque that was produced named the law enforcement agencies that responded to the Capitol siege.

Johnson played a key role in President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, leading a legal brief that sought to disenfranchise voters in four key swing states that Joe Biden won. The Supreme Court in December 2020 rejected the eventual Texas lawsuit that Johnson and other Trump allies backed.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-votes-display-jan-6-plaque-house-refuses-hang-capitol-rcna253093

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. House gop will put up Kirk statue

[rampartd]

2. "the law was not implementable" because the names were wrong?

well, get off your ass and get a proper plaque.

what is wrong with these people?

[progressoid]

3. It took me searching 6 sites to get to the bottom of that because our media sucks so much...

At the end of this AP story:

https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-plaque-capitol-riot-house-senate-trump-edf51275515a7371149f2079f83834a4

Tillis said part of the “technical implementation problem” was a concern that the law specified the plaque would honor all the officers involved, but the plaque only lists the various law enforcement agencies that responded to help the Capitol Police that day.

He said there will be a digital component, presumably a website, that will list all the names. The number of officers runs into the thousands.

“You’ll see how many people came here,” he said.

[tavernier]

4. I don't think it would be impossible to find out the names of

the officers that were at the Capitol building that day, whether it be the officers that were scheduled to work there, or others coming in from a different location to assist.

Or does that sound like way too complicated a task for a congress person?

[Figarosmom]

5. I'm surprised. Nt