[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 413 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 413
Condemning the atrocity that occurred in Buffalo, New York, on May 14,
2022, in which 10 Americans were killed and 3 were injured, and in
which 11 of the 13 victims were Black Americans, condemning the Great
Replacement Theory as a White supremacist conspiracy theory, and
reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating White
supremacy, hatred, and racial injustice.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 17, 2023
Mr. Bowman (for himself, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Horsford, Ms.
Barragan, Ms. Chu, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Takano, Mr. Raskin, Mrs.
Ramirez, Ms. Norton, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Crockett, Ms.
Bonamici, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Johnson of
Georgia, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Doggett, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Brownley,
Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Peters, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Sewell,
Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Lee of California, Mr.
Allred, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Casten, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Meng, Mrs.
Watson Coleman, Ms. Omar, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Tokuda, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Garcia
of Texas, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Carson, Mr. Costa, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms.
Scanlon, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Bush, Mr. Ruiz, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Lee
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Sanchez,
Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Balint, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Dean of
Pennsylvania, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. McGovern,
Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Evans, Mr.
Cleaver, Ms. Porter, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Torres of New York,
Mr. Ryan, Ms. Lee of Nevada, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms.
Pingree, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr.
Blumenauer, Mr. Soto, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Brown, Ms. Adams, Mrs. Foushee,
Mrs. Dingell, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Lynch, Mr.
Cardenas, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. McBath,
Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Castor of
Florida, Ms. Sherrill, Ms. Titus, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Boyle of
Pennsylvania, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Castro of
Texas, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. David Scott of
Georgia, Mr. Thanedar, and Ms. Blunt Rochester) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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RESOLUTION
Condemning the atrocity that occurred in Buffalo, New York, on May 14,
2022, in which 10 Americans were killed and 3 were injured, and in
which 11 of the 13 victims were Black Americans, condemning the Great
Replacement Theory as a White supremacist conspiracy theory, and
reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating White
supremacy, hatred, and racial injustice.
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.
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