{"id":10564,"date":"2025-06-23T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-needle-the-gop-over-jan-6-with-replica-plaques\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:32:04","slug":"house-democrats-needle-the-gop-over-jan-6-with-replica-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-needle-the-gop-over-jan-6-with-replica-plaques\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats needle the GOP over Jan. 6 with replica plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Several House Democrats are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection \u2014 needling Speaker Mike Johnson for the prolonged delay in installing the official plaque that was commissioned by Congress more than three years ago.<\/p>\n

The plaque honoring U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers was mandated in a 2022 spending bill. It was created, then put in storage<\/a> after Republicans took the majority later that year. Democrats have since urged House GOP leadership<\/a> to follow the original law, which ordered it to be mounted inside the Capitol within a year of enactment.<\/p>\n

Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) and Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) led the effort to create the replicas and asked Democratic colleagues earlier this month if they wanted one to put outside their office, according to a Dear Colleague letter obtained by Blue Light News. They started appearing in Capitol office buildings \u2014 and House Democrats’ social-media feeds \u2014 on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re frustrated, like we are, with this embarrassing violation of law and spectacular disregard for the valor, honor and sacrifice of our police officers who responded on that day, please join us by displaying a poster replica of the plaque outside of your office,\u201d the Democrats wrote in the letter. The same day, two Capitol Police officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6 filed a lawsuit seeking for a court order<\/a> to hang the plaque.<\/p>\n

Democrats are also pushing for the plaque’s installation as part of the fiscal 2026 spending process. The House Appropriations Committee is debating the bill funding the legislative branch this week, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the panel’s top Democrat, bashed Republicans for \u201cfailing to call for the immediate installation of the completed January 6 plaque honoring law enforcement\u201d in their draft legislation.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Speaker Mike Johnson did not respond to request for comment on the replicas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol\u2014and yet the plaque honoring the officers who defended us sits forgotten in the basement,\u201d Morelle said in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cIf Speaker Johnson won\u2019t display it, then I will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wu, Meredith Lee Hill and Katherine Tully-McManus contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several House Democrats are posting replicas of a commemorative plaque for police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection \u2014 needling Speaker Mike Johnson for the prolonged delay in installing the official plaque that was commissioned by Congress more than three years ago. The plaque honoring U.S. Capitol Police and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}