[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H608]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       PREVENT DOMESTIC EXTREMISM

  (Mr. MALINOWSKI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MALINOWSKI. Madam Speaker, last week in my New Jersey district I 
hosted a briefing with over 80 faith leaders: Jewish, Christian, 
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh. We didn't discuss how to build a better world. 
We just talked about how to protect their houses of worship from 
violence.
  Whether a synagogue in Pittsburgh, a mosque in New Zealand, a 
shopping mall in Texas, or a Jewish deli in New Jersey, people are 
being targeted for who they are, for what they believe.
  Last year, Congress did something to help. We restored funding to the 
Department of Homeland Security to prevent domestic extremism--
including violent acts of anti-Semitism--which the Trump administration 
cut in 2017. This has allowed DHS to substantially increase the number 
of staff working with State and local governments to stop these 
attacks.
  This year, there is more to be done, from stepping up investigations 
and prosecutions of domestic terrorists, to designating transnational 
neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, to confronting social media 
companies over algorithms that amplify hate.
  Let's make this a priority in 2020 until no one need be afraid 
anymore.

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