[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 6, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H6]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1915
         SOLEMNLY RECOGNIZING THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF JANUARY 6

  (Mr. DeSAULNIER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on the fifth anniversary of 
an awful day in American history and this Chamber.
  I was one of the last Members of Congress evacuated by the Capitol 
Police into a room just to my left off the floor. On that day, the 
damage caused is hard to quantify. Mr. Speaker, 174 Capitol Police 
officers were injured while protecting this sacred place, and 5 
officers lost their lives. The Capitol itself sustained $30 million in 
damages. In total, that day cost American taxpayers $2.7 billion, Mr. 
Speaker. Think of that.
  While the insurrectionists did not succeed that day, they did cause 
even bigger damage than the dollar damage. The person most responsible 
for this continues to behave the way he did then.
  George Santayana famously said that those who forget history are 
condemned to repeat it. I pray that that is not the case. We must 
remember honestly, all of us, what happened that day.

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