[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 84 (Friday, May 14, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H2346-H2347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NOT A TYPICAL TOURIST DAY

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. I remind the House that we were under attack on January 6.
  Earlier this week a freshman Republican said that January 6 could 
have

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been seen as just a typical tourist day in the Capitol.
  Well, let me tell that gentleman that on typical tourist days in the 
Capitol, 100 policemen aren't beaten by people who try to enter the 
Capitol when it is closed to public attendance because of the 
coronavirus.
  On typical tourist days, people don't put excrement on the walls of 
the Capitol of the United States.
  On typical tourist days, people don't urinate on the floors of the 
Capitol of the United States.
  On typical days, people don't batter down the windows on the outside 
to breach the Capitol.
  On typical days, people don't batter down the doors and the glass 
entering the Speaker's lobby, resulting in one person's death. And if 
that person wasn't dead, they would have breached the floor of the 
House and God knows what they would have done if they could have found 
a person in the House.
  They were hollering, ``Hang Mike Pence,'' ``Nancy Pelosi, where are 
you? We are here.'' That was an insurrection. That was an attack on our 
Constitution. It should never be forgotten by anybody who was serving 
in the Congress, by any American because our liberty, our Constitution, 
our country, our values were on the line.

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