next is my friend robin kelly from illinois. >> mr. and mrs. sicknick, it's honor to have you here and gracing us with your presence. thank you so much. thank you, madam speaker, for beak the legendary leader you are. and thank you for your leadership and the courage you gave me and others that day. i will never, ever forget that. colleagues when i walked into the capitol one year ago today i never imagined i would be on my hands and knees with staffers, colleagues, reporters and cameramen all hoping we got out safely. thank god we did. as someone who has worked so hard on gun violence prevention, i remember thinking to myself is this the way it's going to be? meaning, is this the end for me? thank you to the hundreds and hundreds of people who checked on me that day. thank you to the capitol police and staffers who did their job to protect us and our democracy. there is still so many hurting mentally and physically as we've heard. i learned that day just how fragile democracy really is and that we have to work at it each and every day and not

next is my friend robin kelly from illinois. >> mr. and misses -- mrs sicknick, it is an honor to have you here and that you're gracing us with your presence. thank you madame speaker for being the legendary leader that you are and for your leadership in the comfort you gave me and others that day. i will never forget that. when i walked into the capital a year ago today, i never imagined i would be on my hands and knees with staffers, colleagues, reporters and cameramen hoping we got out safely. thank god we did. as someone who has worked so hard on gun violence prevention, i remember thinking to myself, is this the way it is going to be? is this the end for me? thank you to the hundreds of people who checked on me that day. thank you to the capitol police and staffers who did their job to protect us and our democracy. there are still so many hurting mentally and physically, as we have heard. i learned that day just how fragile democracy really is, and that we have to work at it each and every day, and not take it for granted. i also

next is my friend, robin kelly, from illinois. >> we've been watching others reflect on where they wereat day. interesting to hear madeleine dean because she gave a blow-by-blow recall of the event, and ending with get down, put your gas mask on. it was very tense spoken in the past to hear those details. >> let's go to brian todd. he can come in and tell us what it's like to be back now and reflect to that day. i remember your report vividly, brian. >> reporter: victor, alisyn, those memories are still fresh and very raw. my team and i came to the west front where i'm standing now and ba basically found ourselves in the middle of a massive brawl. we found insurrectionists pushing back barricades, rushing up these very stairs here to the capitol, climbing scaffolding, climbing trump flags on the scaffolding and rushing to the windows and doors. i think what i'm still struck by a year later is the sense that we got right at that moment that the insurrectionists knew they had the upper hand almost instantly. the moment they arrived in this spot, they knew they had the numbers, that the po

speaker, as the member designated by representative beatty, representative brownley, representative robin kelly, and representative meng, i inform the house that these members will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. evans of pennsylvania's third district and pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. evans will vote nay on the motion to recommit, h.r. 4673. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. blumenauer of oregon, mr. lowenthal of california, mr. desaulnier of california, ms. moore of wisconsin, and mr. cohen of tennessee, i inform the house that those five members will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from kansas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. cleaver, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote nay on the motion to recom

[applause] >> thank you, robin kelly. next is my friend stacey plaskett from the u.s. virgin islands. >> thank you, jason. madam speaker, colleagues, members of the capitol hill family, including mr. and misses sicknick, your are members of our family now as well. last year our country showed the best and worst of our country, our democracy. in georgia, grassroots organization having worked for months to get people registered and to come out as a saw the fruit of their efforts as americans of all walks of life, young and old black-and-white, poor and rich, voted and elected two new senators from georgia. showing that your vote can make a difference, can change history, can make representation matter. at the same time, a president, a man and his cronies, drunk with power, on keeping the spigot of that power open, plotted and used the frustrations, ignorance, fear, anger, bigotry of many as a fire hose to push away the election results and destroy democracy. the efforts of that day, january 6, were crushed by the brave men and women of the metropolitan and capitol police

. >> the rappers are joined by other artists including fat joe, big sean, kelly rowland and robin thicke and imploring lawmakers to sign the rap music on trial bill and turn it into law. >> trevor: yeah, that's right. when someone gets arrested prosecutors dig up any rap lyrics they might have written and present them like it's a confession. which is ridiculous, people. rap is an art form. right, these songs are performances. the rappers aren't just reading out their journals. just because you rap about killing someone doesn't mean you did it. it is just that a lot of words rhyme with kill. chill, hill, window sill. uncle phil. all of the words you need in a rap song. and you don't wary ---- worries about legal trouble to interfere with musical freedom especially not rap music because throwing in the word allegedly after every rap lyric screws with the flow, a bomb-- people are saying i bomb a tomorrowically, if i am being honest it is not a coincidently they only do this with rap music. this is just another way of targeting black people, half of country music songs are about the singer