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Calendar No. 212 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. J. RES. 49 

Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during 

events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends 

of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support 

to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support 

for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White 

supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, 

and urging the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all available 

resources to address the threats posed by those groups. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 

Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. KAINE, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. ISAKSON, Ms. 

MURKOWSKI, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. MCCONNELL, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. 

BENNET, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. COONS, Mr. 

DONNELLY, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. 

HARRIS, Ms. HASSAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCCAIN, 

Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. UDALL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WARREN, Mr. 

WYDEN, Mr. ROUNDS, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. 

CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. 

FRANKEN, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HEITKAMP, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. LEAHY, 

Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. PETERS, Mr. REED, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCHUMER, 

Ms. STABENOW, Mr. TESTER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. KING, and Mr. 

SANDERS) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read the 

first time 

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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JOINT RESOLUTION 

Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that 

took place during events between August 11 and August 

12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the 

first responders who lost their lives while monitoring 

the events, offering deepest condolences to the families 

and friends of those individuals who were killed and 

deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who 

were injured by the violence, expressing support for the 

Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, 

White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and 

other hate groups, and urging the President and the 

President’s Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups. 

Whereas, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, a day before a White nationalist demonstration was scheduled to 

occur in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of torch-bearing White nationalists, White supremacists, Klansmen, 

and neo-Nazis chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and violently engaged with counter-demonstrators on and around the grounds of the University 

of Virginia in Charlottesville; 

Whereas, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, ahead of the scheduled start time of the planned march, protestors and 

counter-demonstrators gathered at Emancipation Park in 

Charlottesville; 

Whereas the extremist demonstration turned violent, culminating in the death of peaceful counter-demonstrator 

Heather Heyer and injuries to 19 other individuals after 

a neo-Nazi sympathizer allegedly drove a vehicle into a 

crowd, an act that resulted in a charge of second degree 


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murder, 3 counts of malicious wounding, and 1 count of 

hit and run; 

Whereas 2 Virginia State Police officers, Lieutenant H. Jay 

Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died in a 

helicopter crash as they patrolled the events occurring 

below them; 

Whereas the Charlottesville community is engaged in a healing process following this horrific and violent display of 

bigotry; and 

Whereas White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku 

Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups reportedly 

are organizing similar events in other cities in the United 

States and communities everywhere are concerned about 

the growing and open display of hate and violence being 

perpetrated by those groups: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 That Congress— 

4 (1) condemns the racist violence and domestic 

5 terrorist attack that took place between August 11 

6 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia; 

7 (2) recognizes— 

8 (A) Heather Heyer, who was killed, and 19 

9 other individuals who were injured in the re10 ported domestic terrorist attack; and 

11 (B) several other individuals who were in12 jured in separate attacks while standing up to 

13 hate and intolerance; 


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1 (3) recognizes the public service and heroism of 

2 Virginia State Police officers Lieutenant H. Jay 

3 Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who 

4 lost their lives while responding to the events from 

5 the air; 

6 (4) offers— 

7 (A) condolences to the families and friends 

8 of Heather Heyer, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 

9 and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates; and 

10 (B) sympathy and support to those individ11 uals who are recovering from injuries sustained 

12 during the attacks; 

13 (5) expresses support for the Charlottesville 

14 community as the community heals following this 

15 demonstration of violent bigotry; 

16 (6) rejects White nationalism, White suprem17 acy, and neo-Nazism as hateful expressions of intol18 erance that are contradictory to the values that de19 fine the people of the United States; and 

20 (7) urges— 

21 (A) the President and his administration 

22 to— 

23 (i) speak out against hate groups that 

24 espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, 

25 anti-Semitism, and White supremacy; and 


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1 (ii) use all resources available to the 

2 President and the President’s Cabinet to 

3 address the growing prevalence of those 

4 hate groups in the United States; and 

5 (B) the Attorney General to work with— 

6 (i) the Secretary of Homeland Secu7 rity to investigate thoroughly all acts of vi8 olence, intimidation, and domestic ter9 rorism by White supremacists, White na10 tionalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, 

11 and associated groups in order to deter12 mine if any criminal laws have been vio13 lated and to prevent those groups from fo14 menting and facilitating additional vio15 lence; and 

16 (ii) the heads of other Federal agen17 cies to improve the reporting of hate 

18 crimes and to emphasize the importance of 

19 the collection, and the reporting to the 

20 Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate 

21 crime data by State and local agencies. 


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Calendar No. 212 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. J. RES. 49 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist atthe threats posed by those groups. Cabinet to use all available resources to address and urging the President and the President’s Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, ing White nationalists, White supremacists, the support for the Charlottesville community, reject- uals who were injured by the violence, expressing deepest sympathies and support to those individ- friends of those individuals who were killed and ing deepest condolences to the families and lost their lives while monitoring the events, offer- Virginia, recognizing the first responders who gust 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, tack that took place during events between AuSEPTEMBER 7, 2017 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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