Hakeem Jeffries Tries To Force GOP To Install Plaque Honoring Jan. 6 Officers During Police Week

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attempted to force the House to install a plaque honoring officers at the Capitol on January 6th that was passed by law.

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00:01For what purpose does a gentleman from New York seek recognition?

00:05Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on House Administration be discharged

00:10from further consideration of HCON Res. 33, a bill directing the architect of the Capitol

00:18to install at a permanent location on the western front of the United States Capitol building,

00:25an honorific plaque listing the names of all of the officers of the United States Capitol Police,

00:33the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia,

00:37and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities

00:43who responded to the violence that occurred at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021

00:50and asked for its immediate consideration of the House.

00:54Under guidelines consistently issued by the successive speakers as recorded in section 956

01:01of the House Rules and Manual, the chair is constrained not to entertain the request

01:06unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee's leaderships.

01:10Speaker, parliamentary inquiry. The gentleman would state his inquiry.

01:15This is Police Week pursuant to Public Law 87-726 enacted on October 1, 1962.

01:25Police Week here in the United States Congress, where Congress honors the courage, the bravery,

01:32the service, the sacrifice, and the heroism of members of law enforcement. Is that correct?

01:38The gentleman is not stating a proper parliamentary inquiry.

01:44Further parliamentary inquiry?

01:46The gentleman will state his inquiry.

01:48Do the House Rules require compliance with the 2022 Public Law 117-103,

01:57signed by the President at the time, that requires a plaque listing the name of all police officers

02:05who defended the Capitol on January 6 to be placed on the western front of the Capitol building.

02:14Do the House Rules require compliance with that public law?

02:19The chair will not respond to an inquiry regarding the general application of the rules of the House

02:24to a matter not currently pending before the House.

02:27All right. Further parliamentary inquiry?

02:29The gentleman will state his inquiry.

02:31We appear to be in violation of the House Rules given that the law that was passed in 2022 required

02:38that a plaque honoring those heroic police officers be placed on the western front of the Capitol building

02:46no later than March 15, 2023.

02:51But 791 days have passed, and this Republican Congress has refused to comply with the law.

02:58It's time to honor those heroic officers.

03:01It's unconscionable, it's unpatriotic, it's unfathomable, it's unacceptable, and it's un-American.

03:07And you need to honor those officers and treat them with the dignity and respect that they deserve.

03:13The gentleman's time has expired. The chair will not provide an advisory opinion.

03:17The chair will not드�our pourrait be a firm собствен.

03:21The chair will yet rips you up to the table, it's ok.

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