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The list of - 21 House Republicans Voted Against Awarding a Medal to the Police for Defending the Capitol Jan. 6

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By Elliot Hannon
June 16, 202110:45 AM


A totally normal tourist visit to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Brent Stirton/Getty Images

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to award Capitol Police the Congressional Gold Medal for their role in defending the legislature during the Jan. 6 insurrection and protecting lawmakers from possible mob violence. The seemingly uncontroversial bill received 406 votes in the House, but that means that someone voted “no.” Twenty-one Republican someones, in fact, managed to vote against the commendation for the police. The 21 recalcitrant representatives—which amounts to 10 percent of the Republican House caucus—make up the Trumpiest wing of the already Trumpy party. It’s hard to imagine being against awarding a medal of any kind to the people who protected the Capitol from a violent mob of thousands bent on mayhem, destruction, and possibly much worse. But the mob was made up of Trump supporters, and for these reps, that made the insurrection something different, something not so bad, not really an insurrection at all.

“I wouldn’t call it an insurrection,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters, summing up the group’s line of thinking.

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Insert: The GOP lawmakers, who said they objected to the use of the term “insurrectionists” in the resolution, are: Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Andy Harris (Md.), Lance Gooden (Tex.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.), Greg Steube (Fla.), Bob Good (Va.) and John Rose (Tenn.).
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What other qualms did they have? “This is not a temple. That is for sure,” Greene groused about the bill’s language that referred to the Capitol as “the temple of our American Democracy.” Really controversial stuff. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky also quibbled with the metaphorical flourish of calling the Capitol “a temple” while also defending those who invaded the not-temple that day. “I think it was a mob but I don’t think it was an insurrection. … They were protesting and I don’t approve of the way they protested, but it wasn’t an insurrection. My goodness. Can you imagine what a real insurrection would look like?” Massie told .. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/congressional-gold-medal-house-vote/index.html .. CNN. “If they just wanted to give the police recognition, they could have done it without trying to make it partisan.” Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde compared the events of Jan. 6 to a “normal tourist visit” .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/18/clyde-tourist-capitol-riot-photos/?itid=lk_inline_manual_26 .. to the Capitol.

And there you have it: The rehabilitation of an attack on the Capitol is in full swing. Here’s the full slate of Republican “no” votes on the medal bill, nearly double the number of Republicans (12) who voted against a similar version of the bill in March:

1. Lauren Boebert (Colorado)
2. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia)
3. Matt Gaetz (Florida)
4. Louie Gohmert (Texas)
5. Thomas Massie (Kentucky)
6. Paul Gosar (Arizona)
7. Andy Biggs (Arizona)
8. John Rose (Tennessee)
9. Andy Harris (Maryland)
10. Barry Moore (Alabama)
11. Bob Good (Virginia)
12. Ralph Norman (South Carolina)
13. Matt Rosendale (Montana)
14. Chip Roy (Texas)
15. Warren Davidson (Ohio)
16. Scott Perry (Pennsylvania)
17. Greg Steube (Florida)
18. Andrew Clyde (Georgia)
19. Jody Hice (Georgia)
20. Mary Miller (Illinois)
21. Michael Cloud (Texas)

“The House and Senate then remained in a standoff for three months over whether to honor all law enforcement who responded on Jan. 6 or to award the Congressional Gold Medal to one officer in particular, Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who single-handedly diverted an angry mob away from the Senate chamber,” the Washington Post notes .. shorturl.at/aDOUY . “Ultimately, both chambers agreed to slightly modify the House legislation. Four Gold Medals will be awarded: one for the Capitol Police, one for the D.C. police, another for the Smithsonian Institution and another to be displayed inside the Capitol building along with a plaque that names all law enforcement agencies who helped repel the rioters that day.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/republicans-congressional-medal-capitol-police-insurrection-jan-6.html

Imagine for years being proud of the Capitol and all it stood for and having your time end like Michael Fanone's:

'Like, fuck, for instance, the 21 House Republicans who voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. Well, when Fanone got a load of that shit, he called up his friend Harry Dunn — a Capitol Police officer who had testified with Fanone during the congressional hearings in July 2021 — and the two decided to pay a little visit to every one of those House Republicans (“I was like, ‘I’ve got nothing better to do today. I’m going to go annoy some people on Capitol Hill’”).

Speaking of those visits, fuck the “fucking fat fuck” chief of staff who had the gall to ask to see Dunn’s badge that day (“I was like, ‘Here’s my badge number: One,’” says Fanone, holding up his middle finger. “I eat that shit for breakfast”). Fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene (“Put her in the tinfoil-hat brigade”) and Andrew Clyde (“When confronted in person, he fucking folded like a fucking deck of cards”) and Matt Gaetz (“I mean, dude, there’s a constituency out there somewhere in America that elected Matt Gaetz and decided that guy somehow embodied what it is to be a real red-blooded American. A fucking pedo. I don’t get it”).

Fuck Josh Hawley. “He comes down there, flashes the sign of solidarity, riles up this fucking crowd,” Fanone says of Hawley’s actions during the insurrection. “I would’ve had more respect for him if he said, ‘Charge,’ and fucking rushed the first fucking group of police officers that he could possibly fucking find. But he didn’t. He ran like a bitch as fast as he fucking could to the closest safe room in the fucking Capitol building.”

And definitely, definitely fuck Kevin McCarthy, who, as Fanone describes in the first chapter of his memoir, Hold the Line (out Oct. 11), lied and deflected his way through a meeting with Fanone and Jan. 6 casualty Brian Sicknick’s mother — the dead man’s mother, for fuck’s sake! — as he nixed any chance of a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission because of so-called political factors."