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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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 17, 2023 

Mr. BOWMAN (for himself, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. 

BARRAGA ́N, 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. GARCI ́A 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. SA ́NCHEZ, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. BALINT, Mr. CICILLINE, 

Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. 

VELA ́ZQUEZ, 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. CA ́RDENAS, 

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 


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following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

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, antiBlack 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; 


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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; 


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(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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns in the strongest terms the Great 

3 Replacement Theory, a White supremacist con4 spiracy theory that has been used to falsely justify 

5 racially motivated, violent acts of terrorism domesti6 cally and internationally; 

7 (2) honors the memory and legacy of the vic8 tims and acknowledges the lasting impact that this 

9 White supremacist act of violent extremism will have 

10 on the Black community of Buffalo, New York, the 

11 United States, and globally; 


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1 (3) encourages all Americans to remember the 

2 victims of racially motivated hate crimes connected 

3 to White supremacist conspiracy theories such as the 

4 Great Replacement Theory; and 

5 (4) reaffirms the commitment of the Federal 

6 Government to combat White supremacy in all forms 

7 by developing the coordinated, whole-of-government 

8 approach to address White supremacist violence. 

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