Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman has filed a resolution to censure New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House GOP Conference, over comments she made recently, describing defendants in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as “hostages.”

The resolution alleges that Stefanik “supported the duly charged and convicted January 6 insurrectionists, who attacked the United States Capitol, threatened violence against Members of Congress, and attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 Presidential election.”

The northern New York congresswoman in a recent interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” said “I have concerns about the treatment of Jan. 6 hostages,” echoing remarks by former President Donald Trump a day earlier at a campaign event in Iowa that referred to those defendants the same way.

“In putting her personal ambitions over her integrity, Congresswoman Stefanik has been Donald Trump’s biggest congressional cheerleader, even though our mutual home state of New York overwhelmingly opposes him,” Goldman, of New York, said in a statement. “By echoing Trump’s reference to the criminally convicted January 6 insurrectionists as ‘hostages,’ Congresswoman Stefanik both demeans the actual hostages currently held in captivity in Gaza and provides support for those who attacked the Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, caused the death of five law enforcement officers, injured more than 100 others, and threatened violence against members of Congress and their staffs. Her rhetoric betrays her oath of office and the House of Representatives and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”

In the three years since the Capitol riot, more than 1,200 people have been charged with federal crimes tied to the events that day, including trespassing and assaulting police officers and sedition against the U.S. government. More than 700 have pleaded guilty.

Stefanik has been one of Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the House of Representatives since he began his term in the White House and has continued that support since he left office. She endorsed him for a 2024 presidential run before he formally announced his candidacy over a year ago and after his strong performance in the GOP caucus in Iowa on Monday, called on other candidates to drop out of the race and unite around the former president.

“Failed Far Left House Democrats are in absolute desperate free fall that Elise Stefanik continues to be one of the most effective Members of Congress going on offense every single day exposing Democrats and Joe Biden’s corruption and lies,” Stefanik senior advisor Alex DeGrasse said in a statement.

DeGrasse added that “Dan Goldman and Democrats are desperate because they know Joe Biden is going to lose this November.”

Stefanik was one of the more than 140 Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election results in at least one state even after the violent Capitol riot spurred by unfounded election fraud claims by Trump and his allies.

The censure resolution references statements from her on that day, that ‘‘violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable, it is anti-American and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” and also references last week’s “Meet the Press” interview in which she would not commit to voting to certify the 2024 election.