[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 858 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 858

 Condemning Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and 
divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent with the 
trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the President 
and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that he should 
                    immediately resign from office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2020

Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Bass, 
  Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Schneider, and Mr. Beyer) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Condemning Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and 
divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent with the 
trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the President 
and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that he should 
                    immediately resign from office.

Whereas Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution signed into law on September 14, 
        2017, rejects ``white nationalism, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, 
        neo-Nazis, and other hate groups'';
Whereas, on January 15, 2019, the House of Representatives passed a resolution 
        ``reject[ing] White nationalism and White supremacy as hateful 
        expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that 
        define the people of the United States'';
Whereas White supremacy and White nationalism are contrary to the ideals of the 
        United States of America, which has long embraced inclusive patriotism 
        and welcomed immigrants from across the globe, enriching our Nation;
Whereas Stephen Miller has long cultivated relationships and correspondence with 
        those who follow White nationalist ideologies;
Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller primarily concern the 
        subjects of race and immigration, exclusively focus on offenses 
        committed by non-Whites, and promote policies to severely limit or end 
        non-White immigration to the United States;
Whereas, in his emails, Stephen Miller directly and repeatedly suggested story 
        ideas to the website Breitbart, pushing Breitbart's news coverage to 
        reference White supremacist, racist, and eugenic ideologies;
Whereas a former Breibart editor has acknowledged Stephen Miller's suggestions 
        were used to ``spin a narrative where immigrants of color were not only 
        dangerous, violent individuals but also posed an existential threat to 
        America'';
Whereas eugenics is a set of racist beliefs--embraced by Adolf Hitler--that the 
        human population can be improved by promoting genetic groups deemed to 
        be ``superior'' and eliminating or excluding genetic groups deemed to be 
        ``inferior'';
Whereas, in his emails, Stephen Miller repeatedly recommended that Brietbart 
        write articles supporting Calvin Coolidge and the Immigration Act of 
        1924, a law based on eugenic ideology that created a ``national origin'' 
        quota system aimed at restricting immigration to the United States from 
        areas other than Northern and Western Europe;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 prohibited all immigration from Asia, 
        severely restricted immigration from Africa, and used outdated census 
        data to exclude many other people who were deemed by some as 
        ``inferior'' or ``undesirable'', including immigrants from Southern and 
        Eastern Europe;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 was strongly supported at the time by 
        eugenicists and reflected the pervasiveness of anti-immigrant and 
        nativist sentiment at the time;
Whereas President Coolidge once wrote that, ``Our country must cease to be 
        regarded as a dumping ground [for new immigrants] . . . Biological laws 
        tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend'';
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 was the same law that Adolf Hitler described 
        as a model for Nazi Germany in ``Mein Kampf'' to help make his eugenic 
        ideology a reality;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 controlled American immigration policy until 
        the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, which 
        abandoned eugenic ideology and eliminated the ``national origin'' quota 
        system;
Whereas Stephen Miller is now widely understood to direct immigration policy for 
        the Trump administration, including support for legislative and 
        administrative proposals that would severely reduce immigration to the 
        United States; and
Whereas Stephen Miller's leadership position brings discredit upon the White 
        House: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) the House of Representatives does hereby condemn 
        Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and 
        divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent 
        with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor 
        to the President; and
            (2) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
        Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the President, should 
        immediately resign from office, and if he does not resign, the 
        President should remove him from office.
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