WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, held the Senate floor alongside 17 of his Democratic Senate colleagues on the five-year anniversary of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, honoring the more than 100 law enforcement officers who were injured while bravely defending the Capitol, including those who later lost their lives.
Five years after violent rioters, waving Confederate flags and symbols of white supremacy, stormed the Capitol in an effort to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election, Padilla slammed President Trump for inciting the attack by repeatedly lying about th...