Jayapal Statement Recognizing January 6th

WASHINGTON — U.S. Consultant Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) launched the next assertion recognizing 4 years because the lethal riot on January sixth, 2021:

“Immediately, Members of Congress return to the U.S. Capitol to do one in every of our most necessary constitutional duties — certify the outcomes of the Presidential election and guarantee a peaceable switch of energy. What we do in the present day shall be in stark distinction to what occurred 4 years in the past, when insurrectionists—fueled by sitting President Donald Trump — attacked the U.S. Capitol in probably the most violent assault because the Warfare of 1812. That day, U.S. Capitol Cops have been killed, and lots of — together with over 140 regulation enforcement officers—have been injured. Immediately, we keep in mind their braveness and bravado at the same time as Republicans have refused to place up a Congressionally mandated plaque to honor these officers. 

“I do know that many People throughout the nation are nonetheless processing how it’s potential {that a} President, who resisted the peaceable switch of energy 4 years in the past and can be the primary ever convicted felon elected, might enter the Oval Workplace. Whereas I intend to do every thing potential to proceed to guard our democracy and to face up for weak People who stand to lose Social Safety and Medicare and struggling People who will see their grocery costs rise whereas billionaires get one other Trump tax rip-off, I do know that the survival of our democracy will depend on our willingness to uphold the outcomes of our elections, whether or not we like them or not.  

“However as we certify the elections in the present day, allow us to always remember how shut we got here 4 years in the past to dropping our democracy utterly.  As somebody who was trapped within the Gallery that day, I keep in mind vividly how shut we got here to not making it out alive. I’ll always remember the pounding on the doorways, the shouting and screaming of each these attempting to overrun our democracy and people placing their lives on the road to defend it. I’ll always remember that, regardless of the violence, we returned that evening to do the very factor we have been elected to do: to certify the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I additionally will always remember the handful of courageous Republicans who, within the weeks following, stood as much as put nation over get together throughout Trump’s impeachment trial. 

“If Donald Trump strikes ahead with pardoning the January 6 rioters, as he has pledged to do, he’ll as soon as once more be doing violence to our nation and our democracy and inspiring it once more sooner or later. Regardless of these or every other efforts to rewrite historical past, that day won’t ever be forgotten for its horrific violence, for simply how shut we got here to dropping our democracy, and for the power and bravado of so many who fought to verify we revered the outcomes of a good and free election.

“That day confirmed me simply how fragile our democracy is. We are able to by no means take this as a right and we should work to guard and strengthen our democracy each single day, in opposition to all threats to it. I pledge to do precisely that.”