[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1152 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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H. Res. 1152

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                          June 8, 2022.
Whereas, on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York, 10 Americans were killed and 3 
        were injured by a self-described White supremacist who drove more than 
        200 miles to carry out this racist, violent mass shooting with an 
        assault-style rifle at a supermarket in a predominantly Black 
        neighborhood;
Whereas the self-described White supremacist and antisemite who allegedly 
        carried out this racially motivated, anti-Black massacre with a firearm 
        reportedly wrote a manifesto citing the White supremacist Great 
        Replacement Theory;
Whereas the alleged gunman livestreamed the mass shooting on Twitch;
Whereas the victims who tragically died were Aaron Salter, Ruth Whitfield, 
        Pearly Young, Katherine ``Kat'' Massey, Heyward Patterson, Celestine 
        Chaney, Roberta Drury, Margus D. Morrison, Andre Mackneil, and Geraldine 
        Talley;
Whereas the victims who were injured were Zaire Goodman, Jennifer Warrington, 
        and Christopher Braden;
Whereas the ``Great Replacement Theory'' is a White supremacist conspiracy 
        theory that perpetuates the racist, xenophobic, nativist, Islamophobic, 
        and antisemitic falsehood that non-White immigrants are being brought 
        into the United States and other Western countries to repopulate 
        majority White countries and disempower White voters to achieve a 
        political agenda, and to specifically bring upon the genocide of White 
        people;
Whereas this hateful conspiracy theory has been cited as a motivation for White 
        supremacist terrorist attacks domestically and internationally, 
        including--

    (1) the targeting of a Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly Black 
neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, in which the alleged gunman 
murdered 10 Black people, and injured 1 Black person and 2 White people;

    (2) the murder of 9 Black worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist 
Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015;

    (3) the White nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, 
Virginia, in 2017 that resulted in 9 wounded and in the murder of Heather 
Heyer;

    (4) the murder of 11 people and wounding of 6 in an antisemitic attack 
on the Tree of Life L'Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 
2018;

    (5) the targeting of Muslim worshippers, in which a gunman murdered 50 
people at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, 
New Zealand, in 2019;

    (6) the targeting of a Walmart in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood 
in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, in which a gunman murdered 23 people and 
injured 3; and

    (7) the targeting of 3 Asian-owned spas in the Atlanta, Georgia, metro 
area on March 16, 2021, in which a gunman killed 8 people, including 6 
Asian women;

Whereas this hateful conspiracy theory and White supremacy inflicts harm to 
        individuals and communities in addition to physical injuries and death;
Whereas many individuals in positions of power and media institutions with 
        widely viewed public platforms have contributed to the normalization and 
        legitimization of the underlying principles of the Great Replacement 
        Theory; and
Whereas the people of the United States stand in solidarity with those harmed by 
        this hateful, senseless tragedy: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns in the strongest terms the Great Replacement Theory, a 
        White supremacist conspiracy theory that has been used to falsely 
        justify racially motivated, violent acts of terrorism domestically and 
        internationally;
            (2) honors the memory and legacy of the victims and acknowledges the 
        lasting impact that this White supremacist act of violent extremism will 
        have on the Black community of Buffalo, New York, the United States, and 
        globally;
            (3) encourages all Americans to remember the victims of racially 
        motivated hate crimes connected to White supremacist conspiracy theories 
        such as the Great Replacement Theory; and
            (4) reaffirms the commitment of the Federal Government to combat 
        White supremacy in all forms by developing the coordinated, whole-of-
        government approach to address White supremacist violence.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.