Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-Oakland) was one of only 21 House members who voted against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 insurrection attack.
All of the other Illinois and Indiana representatives supported the resolution Tuesday afternoon.
The resolution was the second such bill that the House had considered, with the first being in March. That bill later stalled in the Senate since it voted separately to honor Officer Eugene Goodman for his role in protecting elected officials that day.
Republicans have downplayed the January 6 events for the past few months. The Senate recently failed to pass a resolution to form a bipartisan committee to investigate how the events were planned and who organized them.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she voted against the resolution because she does not believe that what took place was an insurrection. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is opposed to wording in the resolution that refers to the Capitol building as a “temple of democracy.”
Miller and her husband, State Representative Chris Miller, attended the January 6 events in Washington, D.C., and state lawmakers later voted to condemn him for it. 138 police officers were injured during the event, and 15 were hospitalized.
