{"id":565386,"date":"2021-06-16T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565386"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:51:33","slug":"21-house-republicans-vote-against-awarding-medals-to-all-police-who-were-at-january-6-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/21-house-republicans-vote-against-awarding-medals-to-all-police-who-were-at-january-6-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"21 House Republicans Vote Against Awarding Medals To All Police Who Were At January 6 Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F21-house-republicans-vote-against-awarding-medals-to-all-police-who-were-at-january-6-riot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565386&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Capitol-Police-officers-scaled-e1623852053630.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Twenty-one House Republicans voted Tuesday against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation for the medals <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2021161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received<\/a> bipartisan support with a vote of 405-21. All votes against the legislation were from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado was one of the congressmen who voted against the bill, and she accused Democrats of using the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/02\/capitol-car-ramming-into-barricade-lockdown-capitol-police-officer-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death<\/a> of Billy Evans to score political points, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/06\/15\/lauren-boebert-us-capitol-riot-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Denver Post<\/a>. Evans, who is referenced in the bill, was killed on April 2 when a driver ran into him at a Capitol barricade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats prove that there is no level they won\u2019t stoop to. Using the death of an officer in April to try and score cheap political points is shameful,\u201d Boebert said in a statement, according to The Denver Post. \u201cI\u2019m not here to play their partisan games,\u201d said Boebert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.5957446808511\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How you can vote no to this is beyond me. Then again, denying an insurrection is as well. To the brave Capitol (and DC metro PD) thank you. To the 21: they will continue to defend your right to vote no anyway <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/08gmIPu7wX\">https:\/\/t.co\/08gmIPu7wX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1404917854911225861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/17\/house-votes-capitol-police-congressional-gold-medals-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted<\/a> previously in March to award Congressional Gold Medals to law enforcement agencies that protected the Capitol during the riot. That bill awarded medals to the Capitol Police, Washington, D.C.\u2019s Metro Police Department and one honoring Eugene Goodman for diverted rioters away from the Senate chamber. It passed with a 413-12 vote, with a dozen Republicans voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>There was also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/26\/republicans-democrats-capitol-police-officer-congressional-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan support<\/a> in the Senate in January to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Goodman for single-handedly holding back a mob armed with weapons and Confederate flags. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/14\/capitol-police-officer-eugene-goodman-mob-hero-army-iraq-veteran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Army Corps Congratulates Capitol Officer \u2018After Singlehandedly Holding Back Rioters From Entering The Senate Chambers\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said the most recent bill represented a bipartisan opportunity to honor law enforcement members who she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/11\/pelosi-gold-medal-capitol-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a> as martyrs for our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we pass this legislation, we, as members of Congress, have a responsibility to do so (much) more than simply laud these officers (as) heroes,\u201d she said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2021\/06\/15\/biggs-gosar-vote-against-bill-congressional-medal-police-jan-6\/7710057002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>. \u201cWe must respect them. We must support them with resources and funding. We must keep them safe. And we must ensure a January 6th attack can never happen again. That is about our respect for their service and our responsibility to honor their sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one House Republicans voted Tuesday against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all police officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots.The legislation for the medals received bipartisan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280431,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Capitol-Police-officers-scaled-e1623852053630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"21 House Republicans Vote Against Awarding Medals To All Police Who Were At January 6 Riot","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Capitol-Police-officers-scaled-e1623852053630.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"21 House Republicans Vote Against Awarding Medals To All Police Who Were At January 6 Riot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}