[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1077-S1078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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  SENATE RESOLUTION 498--CONDEMNING STEPHEN MILLER FOR TRAFFICKING IN 
  BIGOTRY, HATRED, AND DIVISIVE POLITICAL RHETORIC AND FOR PROMOTING 
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 SENATE THAT STEPHEN MILLER SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RESIGN FROM OFFICE

  Ms. HARRIS (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, Mr. 
Blumenthal, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs:

                              S. Res. 498

       Whereas Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution signed into 
     law on September 14, 2017--
       (1) rejects white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku 
     Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups; and
       (2) states that in August 2017, white nationalists, white 
     supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis gathered and 
     demonstrated in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting racist, 
     anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and causing 
     violence, from which the Charlottesville community is still 
     healing;
       Whereas Stephen Miller is a Senior Advisor to President 
     Trump and has long cultivated relationships and 
     correspondence with individuals who adhere to white 
     nationalist ideology;
       Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller 
     primarily address the subjects of race and immigration, 
     exclusively focus on offenses committed by nonwhite 
     individuals, and promote policies to severely limit or end 
     immigration to the United States by nonwhite individuals;
       Whereas, in such emails, Stephen Miller--
       (1) directly and repeatedly suggests story ideas for the 
     website Breitbart, encouraging Breitbart to incorporate white 
     supremacist, racist, and eugenics ideologies in its news 
     coverage;
       (2) adheres to white supremacist ideologies in his 
     opposition to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
     (commonly known as ``DACA''), a policy that protects from 
     deportation young people, many of whom know no other home 
     than the United States, and permits such individuals to make 
     valuable contributions to their communities and the Unites 
     States; and
       (3) repeatedly recommends that Breitbart publish favorable 
     articles relating to President Calvin Coolidge and the 
     Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190), a law 
     based on eugenics ideology that established a national origin 
     quota system to restrict immigration from areas other than 
     Northern and Western Europe;
       Whereas a former Breitbart editor has acknowledged that 
     Stephen Miller's suggestions have been used by Breitbart to 
     ``spin a narrative where immigrants of color were not only 
     dangerous, violent individuals but also posed an existential 
     threat to America'';
       Whereas eugenics encompasses the racist belief that the 
     human population can be improved by promoting groups 
     considered genetically superior and eliminating or excluding 
     groups considered genetically inferior, a belief that was 
     strongly embraced by Adolf Hitler;
       Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 
     190) prohibited all immigration from Asia, severely 
     restricted immigration from Africa, and used outdated census 
     data to exclude many other individuals whom the proponents of 
     the law considered inferior or undesirable, including 
     Southern and Eastern Europeans;
       Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 
     190) was strongly supported by eugenicists and reflected the 
     pervasiveness of anti-immigrant and nativist sentiment in the 
     early twentieth century;
       Whereas President Coolidge wrote, ``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, in his manifesto entitled ``Mein Kampf'', Adolf 
     Hitler described the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, 
     chapter 190) as a model for Nazi Germany to make his eugenics 
     ideology a reality;
       Whereas the national origin quotas and the eugenics 
     ideology embodied in the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 
     153, chapter 190) governed United States immigration policy 
     until the passage of the Act entitled ``An Act to amend the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes'', 
     approved October 3, 1965 (commonly known as the ``Immigration 
     Act of 1965'') (79 Stat. 911), which replaced the national 
     origin quota system with a preference system based on family 
     ties and professional and skilled employment opportunities;
       Whereas Stephen Miller is widely understood to direct 
     immigration policy for the Trump Administration, including by 
     supporting legislative and administrative proposals that 
     would severely reduce immigration to the United States and 
     disproportionately reduce immigration from Africa, Asia, and 
     Latin America; and
       Whereas Stephen Miller's leadership position brings 
     discredit upon the White House: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That--
       (1) the Senate condemns Stephen Miller for--
       (A) trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive political 
     rhetoric; and
       (B) promoting 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 Senate that Stephen Miller, 
     Senior Advisor to the President,

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     should immediately resign from office, and if he does not 
     resign, the President should remove him from office.

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