[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 446 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 446

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
      issuance under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 of 
    administrative guidelines applicable to religious harassment in 
                              employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 1994

  Mr. McKeon (for himself, Mr. Applegate, Mr. Archer, Mr. Armey, Mr. 
 Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Baesler, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Baker of 
    Louisiana, Mr. Barcia of Michigan, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. 
 Ballenger, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Bliley, 
Mr. Blute, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Buyer, 
  Mr. Canady, Mr. Callahan, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Clement, Mr. Coble, Mr. 
  Collins of Georgia, Mr. Combest, Mr. Cox, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Crane, Mr. 
Cunningham, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. 
Dornan, Mr. Duncan, Ms. Dunn, Mr. Ehlers, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Everett, Mr. 
Ewing, Mr. Fawell, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Gallo, Mr. Pete Geren 
 of Texas, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Grams, Mr. 
   Gunderson, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Hastert, Mr. Hefley, Mr. 
   Hefner, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Huffington, Mr. Hunter, Mr. 
  Hutchinson, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
Istook, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Kim, Mr. King, Mr. Kingston, Mr. 
    Klink, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. LaFalce, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. 
 Lightfoot, Mr. Linder, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McCandless, Mr. McCollum, 
 Mr. McDade, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Lazio, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Mica, 
 Mr. Michel, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. 
  Murphy, Mr. Myers of Indiana, Mr. Nussle, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Orton, Mr. 
 Packard, Mr. Paxon, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Portman, Mr. Quillen, Mr. Ramstad, 
Mr. Regula, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Schaefer, Mr. 
 Shuster, Mr. Smith of Michigan, Mr. Smith of Oregon, Mr. Solomon, Mr. 
Stearns, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Stump, Mr. Sundquist, Mr. Swett, Mr. Talent, 
  Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Upton, Mr. Walker, Mr. Weldon, Mr. 
  Wolf, Mr. Young of Alaska, and Mr. Zeliff) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
      issuance under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 of 
    administrative guidelines applicable to religious harassment in 
                              employment.

Whereas the liberties protected by our Constitution include the religious 
        liberty clauses of the first amendment;
Whereas citizens of the United States profess the beliefs of almost every 
        conceivable religion;
Whereas Congress has historically protected religious expression even from 
        governmental action not intended to be hostile to religion;
Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States has written ``the free exercise 
        of religion means,first and foremost,the right to believe and profess 
        whatever religious doctrine one desires'';
Whereas the Supreme Court has firmly settled that under our Constitution the 
        public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the 
        content of the ideas is offensive;
Whereas the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written proposed 
        guidelines to title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,published in the 
        Federal Register on October 1,1993,which expand the definition of 
        ``harassment'' beyond established legal standards set forth by the 
        Supreme Court which may thus result in the infringement of religious 
        liberty; and
Whereas the Commission has not offered sufficient evidence that such guidelines 
        are necessary to deal with religious harassment or to remedy some gap or 
        weakness in existing law: Now,therefore,be it
    Resolved,That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that,for purposes of issuing under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964 final guidelines in connection with the Proposed Guidelines 
relating to unlawful harassment in employment published by the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission on October 1,1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 
51266),the Commission should exclude harassment based on religion.

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