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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden marked the second anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Friday by awarding the “Presidential Citizens Medal” to 14 people, some of them posthumously, who battled to defend America’s democracy after the 2020 election. In a White House ceremony, Biden, a Democrat, described the violence that injured 140 police as “fueled by lies.” As he spoke, Republicans, many of them loyal to former President Donald Trump who pushed the false election claims, struggled for a fourth straight day to elect a speaker of the House of Represen…