[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 116 (Thursday, July 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, this week, I had the privilege of 
taking some of our young high school students and visitors throughout 
the Capitol.
  What a sense of pride I had in the beauty of this Capitol, the beauty 
of this building, but what it symbolizes is democracy.
  As I walked through the Halls, I was reminded of the important 
hearings that are going on in the January 6th Committee. The most 
recent hearing made it very clear that the Oath Keepers and the Proud 
Boys came specifically at the calling of President Trump. The terrorism 
that occurred was driven by his lack of accepting the peaceful transfer 
of government. It was the big lie.
  What we saw on that day, January 6, was domestic terrorism on 
steroids, destined to commit mayhem, bloodshed, and death. It was an 
attack on democracy, and it is being evidenced every day that the 
hearings proceed methodically, block by block, evidence by evidence. It 
is clear in the injury of law enforcement officers and loss of life 
that we have to say to those of this Nation: You have to take ownership 
of protecting the values and the sanctity of democracy.
  Yes, someone must be held accountable. The President must be held 
accountable because what happened was not only an attack on democracy 
and the peaceful transfer of government, but loss of life and death, 
and that cannot go unanswered.

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