This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values.
Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community.
Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.
[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.J. Res. 117 Introduced in House (IH)]
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115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 117
Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place
during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in
Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost
their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences
to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and
deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured in
the attack, expressing support for the Charlottesville community,
rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the
President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the
threats posed by those groups.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 7, 2017
Mr. Garrett (for himself, Mr. Connolly, Mrs. Comstock, Mr. Beyer, Mr.
Griffith, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Brat, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Taylor,
Mr. Goodlatte, and Mr. Wittman) submitted the following joint
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place
during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in
Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost
their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences
to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and
deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured in
the attack, expressing support for the Charlottesville community,
rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the
President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the
threats posed by those groups.
Whereas, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, a day before a White
nationalist demonstration was scheduled to occur in Charlottesville,
Virginia, hundreds of torch-bearing White nationalists, White
supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and
anti-immigrant slogans and violently engaged with counter-demonstrators
on and around the grounds of the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville;
Whereas, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, ahead of the scheduled start time of the
planned march, protestors and counter-demonstrators gathered at
Emancipation Park in Charlottesville;
Whereas the extremist demonstration turned violent, culminating in the death of
peaceful counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer and injuries to 19 other
individuals after a neo-Nazi sympathizer allegedly drove a vehicle into
a crowd, an act that resulted in a charge of second degree murder, 3
counts of malicious wounding, and 1 count of hit and run;
Whereas 2 Virginia State Police officers, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper
Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died in a helicopter crash as they patrolled the
events occurring below them;
Whereas the Charlottesville community is engaged in a healing process following
this horrific and violent display of bigotry; and
Whereas White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and
other hate groups reportedly are organizing similar events in other
cities in the United States and communities everywhere are concerned
about the growing and open display of hate and violence being
perpetrated by those groups: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress--
(1) condemns the racist violence and domestic terrorist
attack that took place between August 11 and August 12, 2017,
in Charlottesville, Virginia;
(2) recognizes--
(A) Heather Heyer, who was killed, and 19 other
individuals who were injured in the reported domestic
terrorist attack; and
(B) several other individuals who were injured in
separate attacks while standing up to hate and
intolerance;
(3) recognizes the public service and heroism of Virginia
State Police officers Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper
Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who lost their lives while responding
to the events from the air;
(4) offers--
(A) condolences to the families and friends of
Heather Heyer, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper
Pilot Berke M.M. Bates; and
(B) sympathy and support to those individuals who
are recovering from injuries sustained during the
attacks;
(5) expresses support for the Charlottesville community as
the community heals following this demonstration of violent
bigotry;
(6) rejects White nationalism, White supremacy, and neo-
Nazism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are
contradictory to the values that define the people of the
United States; and
(7) urges--
(A) the President and his administration to--
(i) speak out against hate groups that
espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-
Semitism, and White supremacy; and
(ii) use all resources available to the
President and the President's Cabinet to
address the growing prevalence of those hate
groups in the United States; and
(B) the Attorney General to work with--
(i) the Secretary of Homeland Security to
investigate thoroughly all acts of violence,
intimidation, and domestic terrorism by White
supremacists, White nationalists, neo-Nazis,
the Ku Klux Klan, and associated groups in
order to determine if any criminal laws have
been violated and to prevent those groups from
fomenting and facilitating additional violence;
and
(ii) the heads of other Federal agencies to
improve the reporting of hate crimes and to
emphasize the importance of the collection, and
the reporting to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, of hate crime data by State and
local agencies.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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