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Congressional Record—House H133 January 12, 2021 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H133 Thompson (MS) Underwood Watson Coleman Bishop (GA) Grijalva (Garcı´a Ocasio-Cortez President pro tempore of the Senate, the Titus Vargas Welch (Butterfield) (IL)) (Tlaib) first three individuals in the line of succes- Tlaib Veasey Wexton Blumenauer Hastings Pascrell sion to the presidency, as the rioters were re- Tonko Vela (Wasserman (Pallone) Wild (Beyer) corded chanting ‘‘Hang Mike Pence’’ and Torres (CA) Vela´ zquez Bonamici (Clark Schultz) Payne Williams (GA) ‘‘Where’s Nancy’’ when President Donald J. Torres (NY) Wasserman Wilson (FL) (MA)) Jayapal (Raskin) (Wasserman Trahan Schultz Yarmuth Boyle, Brendan Johnson (TX) Schultz) Trump tweeted to his supporters that ‘‘Mike Trone Waters F. (Jeffries) (Jeffries) Peters (Beyer) Pence didn’t have the courage to do what Jones (Jacobs Porter (Wexton) NAYS—204 Buchanan should have been done to protect our coun- (Cammack) (CA)) Pressley (Garcı´a try’’ after the Capitol had been overrun and Kaptur (Stevens) (IL)) Aderholt Gonzalez (OH) Mooney Ca´ rdenas the Vice President was in hiding; Allen Good (VA) Kirkpatrick Richmond Moore (AL) (Gallego) Whereas the insurrectionary mob attacked Amodei Gooden (TX) Moore (UT) (Gallego) (Butterfield) Carson law enforcement officers, unleashed chaos Armstrong Gosar Mullin (Underwood) Kuster (Pingree) Rush Arrington Graves (LA) Nehls Costa (Correa) Lamborn (Underwood) and terror among Members and staffers and (Walberg) Schneider Babin Graves (MO) Newhouse DeSaulnier their families, occupied the Senate Chamber Langevin (Sherrill) Bacon Green (TN) Norman (Matsui) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office along with (Lynch) Sires (Pallone) Baird Greene (GA) Nunes DesJarlais other leadership offices, vandalized and pil- LaTurner (Mann) Smith (WA) Balderson Griffith Obernolte (Kustoff) fered government property, and succeeded in Banks Grothman Lawson (FL) (Courtney) Owens Deutch (Rice Barr Guest (Evans) Strickland interfering with the counting of electoral Palazzo (NY)) Bentz Guthrie Lee (NV) (Kilmer) votes in the joint session of Congress; Palmer Dingell (Stevens) Bergman Hagedorn (Stevens) Thompson (MS) Whereas the insurrectionary mob’s violent Pence Doyle, Michael Bice (OK) Harris Leger Fernandez (Butterfield) Perry F. (Cartwright) attacks on law enforcement and invasion of Biggs Harshbarger (Davids (KS)) Titus (Connolly) Pfluger the Capitol complex caused the unprece- Bilirakis Hartzler Eshoo Lieu (Beyer) Tonko (Pallone) Posey dented disruption of the Electoral College Bishop (NC) Hern (Thompson Lowenthal Vela (Gomez) Boebert Herrell Reed (CA)) (Beyer) Walorski (Banks) count process for a 4-hour period in both the Brady Herrera Beutler Reschenthaler Fleischmann McEachin Watson Coleman House and the Senate, a dangerous and de- Brooks Hice (GA) Rice (SC) (Kustoff) (Wexton) (Pallone) stabilizing impairment of the peaceful trans- Buchanan Higgins (LA) Rodgers (WA) Fletcher (Allred) McNerney Wild (Scanlon) fer of power that these insurrectionary riots Buck Hill Rogers (AL) Frankel, Lois (Huffman) Wilson (FL) were explicitly designed to cause; Rogers (KY) Bucshon Hinson (Clark (MA)) Nadler (Jeffries) (Hayes) Whereas 5 Americans have died as a result Rose Gonzalez (OH) Napolitano Young Budd Hollingsworth of injuries or traumas suffered during this Burchett Hudson Rosendale (Joyce (OH)) (Correa) (Malliotakis) Rouzer violent attack on Congress and the Capitol, Burgess Huizenga f Calvert Issa Roy including Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Cammack Jackson Rutherford CALLING ON VICE PRESIDENT Sicknick and Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Salazar Carl Jacobs (NY) PENCE TO CONVENE AND MOBI- Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phil- Carter (GA) Johnson (LA) Scalise lips, and more than 50 police officers were se- Carter (TX) Johnson (OH) Schweikert LIZE THE CABINET TO ACTIVATE riously injured, including 15 officers who had Cawthorn Johnson (SD) Scott, Austin SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH AMEND- to be hospitalized, by violent assaults, and Chabot Jordan Sessions MENT TO DECLARE PRESIDENT there could easily have been dozens or hun- Cheney Joyce (OH) Simpson Cline Joyce (PA) Smith (MO) DONALD J. TRUMP INCAPABLE dreds more wounded and killed, a sentiment Cloud Katko Smith (NE) OF EXECUTING THE DUTIES OF captured by Senator Lindsey Graham, who Cole Keller Smith (NJ) HIS OFFICE observed that ‘‘the mob could have blown the Comer Kelly (MS) Smucker building up. They could have killed us all’’; Crawford Kelly (PA) Spartz Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, pursuant Whereas these insurrectionary protests Curtis Kim (CA) Stauber to House Resolution 38, I call up the were widely advertised and broadly encour- Davidson Kinzinger Stefanik Davis, Rodney Kustoff resolution (H. Res. 21) calling on Vice aged by President Donald J. Trump, who re- Steil peatedly urged his millions of followers on DesJarlais LaHood Steube President MICHAEL R. PENCE to con- Twitter and other social media outlets to Diaz-Balart LaMalfa Stewart vene and mobilize the principal officers Donalds Lamborn Stivers of the executive departments of the come to Washington on January 6 to ‘‘Stop Duncan Latta Taylor Cabinet to activate section 4 of the the Steal’’ of the 2020 Presidential election Dunn LaTurner Thompson (PA) and promised his activist followers that the Emmer Lesko Tiffany 25th Amendment to declare President protest on the Electoral College counting Estes Long Timmons Donald J. Trump incapable of exe- Fallon Loudermilk day would be ‘‘wild’’; Turner Feenstra Lucas cuting the duties of his office and to Whereas President-elect Joseph R. Biden Upton Ferguson Luetkemeyer immediately exercise powers as acting won the 2020 Presidential election with more Valadao Fischbach Mace than 81 million votes and defeated President Van Drew President, and ask for its immediate Fitzgerald Malliotakis consideration in the House. Trump 306–232 in the Electoral College, a Fitzpatrick Mann Van Duyne Wagner The Clerk read the title of the resolu- margin pronounced to be a ‘‘landslide’’ by Fleischmann Massie President Trump when he won by the same Fortenberry Mast Walberg tion. Electoral College numbers in 2016, but Presi- Foxx McCarthy Walorski The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Franklin, C. McCaul Waltz dent Trump never accepted these election re- Scott McClain Weber (TX) BUTTERFIELD). Pursuant to House Res- sults as legitimate and waged a protracted Fulcher McClintock Wenstrup olution 38, the amendment to the pre- campaign of propaganda and coercive pres- Gaetz McHenry Westerman amble, printed in House Report 117–1, is sure in the Federal and State courts, in the Gallagher McKinley Williams (TX) state legislatures, with Secretaries of State, Wilson (SC) adopted, and the resolution, as amend- Garbarino Meijer and in Congress to nullify and overturn these Garcia (CA) Meuser Wittman ed, is considered read. Gibbs Miller (IL) Womack The text of the resolution, as amend- results and replace them with fraudulent and Gimenez Miller (WV) Wright ed, is as follows: fabricated numbers; Gohmert Miller-Meeks Young Whereas President Trump made at least 3 Gonzales, Tony Moolenaar Zeldin H. RES. 21 attempts to intervene in the lawful vote Whereas on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, counting and certification process in Georgia NOT VOTING—7 the day prescribed under section 15 of title 3, and to coerce officials there into fraudu- Bost Granger Webster (FL) United States Code, for the counting of elec- lently declaring him the winner of the Clyde Murphy (NC) toral votes, Congress experienced a massive State’s electoral votes, including calls to Crenshaw Steel violent invasion of the United States Capitol Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and a State and its complex by a dangerous insurrec- elections investigator, and an hour-long con- b 2112 tionary mob which smashed windows and versation with Secretary of State Brad So the resolution was agreed to. used violent physical force and weapons to Raffensperger badgering him to ‘‘find 11,780 The result of the vote was announced overpower and outmaneuver the United votes’’ and warning of a ‘‘big risk’’ to as above recorded. States Capitol Police and facilitated the ille- Raffensperger if he did not intervene favor- gal entry into the Capitol of hundreds, if not ably to guarantee the reelection of President A motion to reconsider was laid on thousands, of unauthorized persons (all of Trump; the table. whom entered the Capitol complex without Whereas President Trump appeared with MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT TO HOUSE going through metal detectors and other se- members of his staff and family at a RESOLUTION 8, 117TH CONGRESS curity screening devices); celebratory kickoff rally to encourage and Adams (Brown) Bergman Bilirakis Whereas, the insurrectionary mob threat- charge up the rioters and insurrectionists to Axne (Stevens) (Walberg) (Fortenberry) ened the safety and lives of the Vice Presi- ‘‘walk down to the Capitol’’ and ‘‘if you don’t Baird (Bucshon) dent, the Speaker of the House, and the fight like hell, you’re not going to have a VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:02 Jan 13, 2021 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.009 H12JAPT1 dlhill on DSK120RN23PROD with HOUSE H134 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2021 country anymore’’ on Wednesday, January 6, marks and insert extraneous material process of electing the President. He is 2021; on H. Res. 21. not respecting the peaceful transfer of Whereas while violent insurrectionists oc- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there power. He is not taking care that the cupied parts of the Capitol, President Trump objection to the request
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