Anti-Communism Week Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6540

  To request the designation of an Anti-Communism Week, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2025

Ms. Salazar (for herself, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Webster 
   of Florida, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. 
  Gimenez, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. McDowell, Mr. 
  Haridopolos, and Mr. Hunt) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To request the designation of an Anti-Communism Week, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Anti-Communism Week Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ANTI-COMMUNISM WEEK.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Anti-Communism Week is a solemn remembrance of the 
        devastation caused by one of history's most destructive 
        ideologies.
            (2) Across continents and generations, communism has 
        wrought devastation upon nations and souls.
            (3) More than 100,000,000 lives have been taken by regimes 
        that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy 
        prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given 
        rights and dignity of those they oppressed.
            (4) Honoring the memory of those lives renews the promise 
        of the United States to stand firm against communism, to uphold 
        the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more 
        that no system of government can ever replace the will and 
        conscience of a free people.
            (5) For more than a century, communism has brought nothing 
        but ruin, silencing dissent, punishing beliefs, and demanding 
        that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of 
        standing for freedom.
            (6) The story of communism is written in blood and sorrow, 
        a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another 
        word for servitude.
            (7) In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the 
        world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the 
        persistence of tyranny in new forms.
            (8) New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the 
        language of ``social justice'' and ``democratic socialism,'' 
        yet their message remains to give up freedom, place trust in 
        the power of the government, and trade the promise of 
        prosperity for the empty comfort of control.
            (9) The United States rejects communism and remains a 
        country founded on the eternal truth that liberty and 
        opportunity are the birthrights of every individual, and that 
        no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.
            (10) The United States stands in defense of the values that 
        define it as a country of free people and honors the victims of 
        oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that 
        communism and every system that denies the rights to life, 
        liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, 
        once and for all, on the ash heap of history.
    (b) Designation.--Chapter 1 of title 36, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 149. Anti-Communism Week
    ``The President is requested to each year designate a week as Anti-
Communism Week and issue a proclamation calling on the people of the 
United States to observe Anti-Communism Week with appropriate 
ceremonies and activities.''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 1 of 
title 36, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 148 the following new item:

``149. Anti-Communism Week.''.
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