Bay Area Lawmakers at U.S. Capitol During Riot Reflect a Year Later

Many Bay Area lawmakers were astatine the U.S. Capitol arsenic it was overrun connected Jan. 6, 2021.

On Thursday, arsenic they reflected connected that day, galore said clip has not healed wounds oregon governmental divisions.

Each 1 had immoderate harsh words for what they called a deficiency of advancement toward unity successful the clip since the insurrection, contrasting it to the nationalist tone successful the aftermath of 9/11.

Rep. Eric Swalwell of Dublin said the Republican enactment enactment has chosen unit implicit voting by not condemning the U.S. Capitol riot, and arsenic agelong arsenic that continues, it's a menace to our democracy.

"I was moving with Republicans and Democrats," Rep. Eric Swalwell said. "We were some trying to get distant from the mob. And I thought, 'Well, this is stone bottom.' This is an accidental for america to usage unity arsenic we did 20 years before, arsenic an antidote to the coercion that the mob and erstwhile President Trump had aimed astatine the Capitol. And we ne'er had that moment."

"I person a substance of emotions that are moving done me," Rep. Anna Eshoo said. "I person a heavy consciousness of grief implicit what happened to our state and the conflict successful the aftermath with the large prevarication and the divisions successful our country."

In an interrogation Thursday morning, Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland recalled initially being alert of "some information issues" earlier the full-fledged riot connected the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, that she called an attempted coup.