[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 6, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S26-S27]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Unanimous Consent Request--S. Res. 574
Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, before starting the series of speeches
that are scheduled for this afternoon, I have a resolution observing
the fifth anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Capitol at the desk, and I would like to call up for a passage by
unanimous consent.
The resolution is straightforward. It simply says that the January 6
Capitol attack was an assault on democracy, that the U.S. Capitol
Police and other law enforcement personnel who defended the Capitol
were heroes, and that we, as a body, express our gratitude to all the
dedicated personnel of the U.S. Capitol for their service that day. I
believe, in a bipartisan spirit, it would be a great symbol of our
congressional unity to pass this today on the fifth anniversary of
January 6.
So as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 574; that the resolution
be agreed to; that the preamble be agreed to; and that the motions to
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no
intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there an objection?
The Senator from Alabama.
Mr. TUBERVILLE. Mr. President, reserving the right to object.
You know, January 6 was my first day on the job here in the U.S.
Senate. Come to think of it, that was the first day of the year and the
start of a huge disaster the next 4 years. I sat right over there.
Again, it was my first time on the Senate floor.
One of the first things I heard from my Democratic colleagues, after
we returned to the floor that same night, after being taken and hidden
out for a few hours, was that this was the worst disaster and was even
worse than Pearl Harbor. By the way, that was a real attack that killed
2,403 Americans.
And I thought at that time: Are you kidding me? What are we talking
about here?
Then almost immediately afterwards, those same Democrats that said
this about Pearl Harbor, they came after all of us Republicans and said
this January 6 attack was racist. And, you know, I didn't understand
that--being the first day here, I went, Wait a minute. I mean, I
thought we are all in this together. They know dang well this wasn't a
racist attack, but it was just something that they wanted to use, but
they never miss an opportunity to paint somebody a racist, you know,
when it comes to the Democrats.
So January 6 had nothing to do with racism. Let's be clear what
happened that day. Democrats and the Deep State hate Donald Trump so
much that they helped orchestrate a coup against our government. It has
been looked at, vilified; and the information that we found today is
just amazing. And it first started with the tampering of the 2020
Presidential election results to oust President Trump and to install a
different type of government. As a result, great American patriots
gathered in Washington to peacefully--peacefully--protest the illegal
tampering of the election of 2020.
When the leader of the Democratic Party at that time, Nancy Pelosi,
and the Deep State learned of Trump supporters coming to Washington,
DC--which, by the way, was hundreds of thousands of people--they
started and got an idea. Now, again, this has all been proven. They
decided to infiltrate the crowd with antifa and intelligence community
members who would stir up trouble. The FBI has confirmed that there
were 274 FBI agents in plain clothes in the Capitol here that day.
Then they set up Capitol Police by failing and refusing President
Trump's offer to bring in National Guard as backup. They turned it
down.
I interact with Capitol Hill police here every day. They are brave
men and women who work tirelessly to help keep us all safe. But they
were set up to fail by the Democrats that day. And then, of course,
Democrats placed all the blame on President Trump and the Republicans
for everything that happened that day and afterwards. They had the
majority.
Nancy Pelosi spearheaded the true insurrection that day. This has all
been proven true, and she even admitted responsibility for the massive
security failures of that day. But the Democrats' plan to destroy
President Trump and his supporters, it didn't end on that January 6,
2021. For the next 4 years--next 4 years--Joe Biden and the Democrats
did everything they could do--everything--to arrest, harass, bankrupt,
deplatform, and kill President Trump--not to mention the hundreds of
innocent patriotic Americans who sat behind bars for the past 5 years
over this made up witch hunt. That is one of the most embarrassing
things I have seen since I have been here.
Thankfully, most of them now have been released. You know,
conveniently, the Biden DOJ neglected to investigate members of the
intelligence community for their treasonous involvement in the events
of January 6. That was very convenient. As a matter of fact, they never
brought the guy in who was in charge of Capitol Hill police for an
interview. They never wanted to talk to him. He was in charge of the
Capitol Hill police--because he knew the truth.
Still today, Democrats are trying to rewrite the true events of that
history. They keep mentioning all of these Capitol Police who
supposedly died on January 6. Now, don't get me wrong. We have brave
people that work in this building. But this was made up, and it
continued to be made up. The only person who died on January 6 was
Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot that day in
this building.
Recently, Senate Democrats attempted--think about this--attempted to
strip Ashli Babbitt of her military funeral honors. Now, why would they
do that? Ashli Babbitt was wrongfully killed on January 6, 2021. The
Federal Government admitted it, and they paid money to her family as
part of a legal settlement. Interesting. But Democrats, they don't care
about the truth.
Today is a reminder that radical Democrats and the Deep State, they
don't like our country the way we run it too much, and they will do
whatever it takes to try to make the Republican Party and President
Trump look bad. Unfortunately, for them, the American people aren't
buying it. Mr. President, 77 million people came to the rescue of our
country a year ago in November--77 million people. And that is why
President Trump is back in the White House, and thank God he is.
So, no, we don't need a resolution condemning the attack on the
Capitol on January 6. In fact, the only thing we should be doing is
condemning Nancy Pelosi's role in setting up the government
orchestration and orchestrated the hoax of January 6.
So before I object, I want to turn and yield the floor to my
colleague from West Virginia.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there an objection?
The Senator from West Virginia.
Mr. JUSTICE. Mr. President, I reserve my right to object.
I would like to start by just saying a few comments, and that is just
this: I think about my good friend, my colleague from the great State
of Alabama. He is a patriot. He is a good man. He is a man full of
common sense. He is a man that absolutely cannot stand wasting time. He
can't stand worthless grandstanding, and neither can I. I didn't come
here for that. He will be a great, great Governor.
You know, I had 8 years of serving the great people of West Virginia.
It is the honor of my life. We approach things the same way in a lot, a
lot of ways. You know, we are both coaches. We tease each other that we
are the best two coaches in the U.S. Senate. We are the only two
coaches in the U.S. Senate, but we still think we are the best.
You know, we concentrate on things like moving the ball forward,
don't we? We absolutely listen to our team. We listen to voters. We
listen to--who I always call the voters--Toby and Edith. This is a
gigantic distraction again by the Democrats just because they hate our
great President beyond all good sense. When are they ever going to get
over hating Donald Trump?
Now, you know me well enough to know that I speak the truth. And I
know the Trump family, and I know
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President Trump really well. I have seen Eric Trump underneath my
vehicle changing the tire on my vehicle so far back in the woods that
you can't imagine how far away we were. They are good people, and they
are a good family, and God knows what he has achieved is off the
charts. It is so good; it is unbelievable.
Today what we see is, again, the Democrats grasping at straws, doing
stuff absolutely to try to make a scene. That is what this is all
about. For God's sake, President Trump was elected unbelievably--
unbelievably. Why in the world are we not moving on? Why in the world
do we continue to waste more and more and more time? Is it any wonder
why we earn the badge of courage--14 percent approval rating--and we
still won't do anything about it.
We need to do things. We need to really get stuff done here. We need
to help our farmers, and I am sure my colleague from Alabama would help
a lot of great farmers in the State of Alabama soon. We need to help
our families. We need to make American lives better and better. And in
my opinion, America needs to lead the world, and that is what we are
doing today. Instead of the world absolutely leading us, we are doing
what the world wants us to do. We are stepping up. We are leading the
world.
Again, I want to thank Senator Tuberville in every way. And to my
Democratic colleagues that I respect more than you know in all ways--
and I think that is how we all should be--please, let's stop wasting
time; and please, let's stop this unnecessary and totally useless
grandstanding politics. We have got to stop this. This is a total waste
of time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there an objection?
The Senator from Alabama.
Mr. TUBERVILLE. For those reasons, I object.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection is heard.
The Senator from California.