Schiff recalled how two Republican colleagues approached him as the order came to evacuate the House chamber. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he wasn’t fully aware of the dangers surrounding him until he was told to get a gas mask. We must have truth, we must have accountability.” He held up a shard of broken glass that he picked up in the Capitol that day and has carried daily “as a constant reminder in my pocket of the brutality of that day. The threat, and the lie that fuels that threat, continues to rear its head in other forms.” That includes threats of violence against lawmakers and voting restrictions that Republicans have been enacting in states around the country, he said. “It's been made more painful, however, by that fact that most of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue to accommodate that big lie that was the predicate for the attack on our country," he said. The five-term House veteran, 63, said his recovery from that day “has not been an easy one.” That was a reference to the trauma he's suffered and the counseling he's received, which he's discussed publicly before. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., recounted lying on the floor of the House gallery and calling his family “to tell them I was safe, even though I was not sure that I was.” Looking at Sicknick's parents, Allred said, “Your son's sacrifice allowed me to meet mine.” _ “Had those officers not held that line, I would not have met my son Cameron.” He said that since he was raised by a single mother, he’d long been committed “to making sure that my boys knew me.” And I thought about the opportunity that they had given me,” he said.Īllred said he and his wife had one young son at home and a second was weeks away from being born. I saw the officers staying behind with their guns drawn. “As we were exiting the House floor, I saw the glass breaking.