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  • 2021-03-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Did 12 GOP House Members Vote Against Medals for Capitol Police? (en)
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  • In March 2021, the popular left-leaning Facebook page Occupy Democrats posted a meme condemning 12 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives for, according to the meme, voting against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to U.S. Capitol Police officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. The meme, posted on March 17, was prefaced by the caption Don't you EVER forget their names, and contained the following text: Those 12 Republican House members did vote against a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the U.S. Capitol Police in recognition of their role in protecting the Capitol from an attack by a mob of insurrectionists on Jan. 6. However, what the Occupy Democrats meme failed to mention was that all but two of those 12 House members sponsored, co-sponsored, or supported one of two differently worded, alternative proposals that would either award the Congressional Gold Medal to the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police in recognition of their services and sacrifices, or express the House's gratitude to those officers for protecting the Capitol from the Jan. 6 attack. As a result of those significant omissions, we are issuing a rating of Mixture. H.R. 1085 was introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi back in February 2021. In brief, it arranges for the Congressional Gold Medal to be awarded to the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police and explicitly recognizes their role in the events of Jan. 6, as follows: (en)
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