Democrats Upset Speaker Johnson Refuses to Hang January 6 Plaque

House Democrats are throwing a collective fit after Speaker Mike Johnson declined to hang their long-demanded January 6 plaque in the Capitol, leaving them to paper the halls with replicas in protest.

On Sunday evening, House Judiciary Dems posted on X:

Congress passed a law to place a plaque in the Capitol honoring the officers who protected the transfer of power, Members of Congress and VP Pence on January 6. The plaque is complete and long overdue for display. But Speaker Johnson is leaving it in a dark closet rather than honor those who protected him on that day.

That’s why @RepRaskin and @HouseDemocrats are placing replicas outside their doors until the official plaque is displayed in the Capitol where it belongs.

The video shows Rep. Raskin (D-MD) with a “replica” of the plaque Congress voted to install by March 15, 2023. He says, “It’s now two years overdue. “

He says the plaque “honors the sacrifice and the valor, the commitment of the police officers who,” he claims, “saved us—the members of the House and Senate, who saved the vice president, who saved American democracy from a violent effort to overturn the presidential election, which, of course, Joe Biden had won by more than 7 million votes, 306 to 232 in the Electoral College.”

Raskin complains, “Speaker Johnson refuses to put it up. He’s consistently refused to put it up.”

“With Joe Morelle, who’s the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, Jim McGovern, who’s the ranking member of the House Rules Committee,” he continued, “we’ve sent a letter to all of our colleagues saying, put this up until Speaker Johnson complies with the law.”