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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3235 

To restrict executive agencies from acting in contravention of Executive Order 

13950. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 14, 2021 

Mr. OWENS (for himself, Mr. BANKS, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BABIN, Mr. BISHOP

of North Carolina, Mrs. BOEBERT, Mr. BROOKS, Mr. BUCK, Mr. 

CAWTHORN, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. DONALDS, Mr. GOOD of Virginia, Mr. 

FALLON, Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mrs. 

HARSHBARGER, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACKSON, Mr. JACOBS of New York, Mr. 

JOYCE of Pennsylvania, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. MAST, Mr. 

MOOLENAAR, Mr. PERRY, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Mr. RICE of South 

Carolina, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. ROY, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. 

STEWART, and Mr. TIFFANY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the 

Committees on Education and Labor, and Armed Services, for a period 

to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 

concerned 

A BILL 

To restrict executive agencies from acting in contravention 

of Executive Order 13950. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON EXECUTIVE AGENCIES ACT2 ING IN CONTRAVENTION OF EXECUTIVE 

3 ORDER 13950. 

4 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

5 (1) On September 22, 2020, President Trump 

6 issued Executive Order (EO) 13950 ‘‘Combating 

7 Race and Sex Stereotyping’’. 

8 (2) EO 13950 was designed ‘‘to promote econ9 omy and efficiency in Federal contracting, to pro10 mote unity in the Federal workforce, and to combat 

11 offensive and anti-American race and sex stereo12 typing and scapegoating’’. 

13 (3) Specifically EO 13950, among other things, 

14 prohibited Federal agencies from teaching, advo15 cating, acting upon, or promoting in any training to 

16 agency employees certain divisive concepts, such as 

17 those that hold ‘‘(1) one race or sex is inherently su18 perior to another race or sex; (2) the United States 

19 is fundamentally racist or sexist; (3) an individual, 

20 by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently rac21 ist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or un22 consciously; (4) an individual should be discrimi23 nated against or receive adverse treatment solely or 

24 partly because of his or her race or sex; (5) members 

25 of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to 

26 treat others without respect to race or sex; (6) an 


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1 individual’s moral character is necessarily deter2 mined by his or her race or sex; (7) an individual, 

3 by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsi4 bility for actions committed in the past by other 

5 members of the same race or sex; (8) any individual 

6 should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other 

7 form of psychological distress on account of his or 

8 her race or sex; or (9) meritocracy or traits such as 

9 a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were cre10 ated by a particular race to oppress another race’’. 

11 (4) EO 13950 further required that diversity 

12 and inclusion efforts of Federal agencies must ‘‘first 

13 and foremost, encourage agency employees not to 

14 judge each other by their color, race, ethnicity, sex, 

15 or any other characteristic protected by Federal 

16 law’’. 

17 (5) EO 13950 was issued soon after Office of 

18 Management and Budget Director Russell Vought 

19 issued a September 4, 2020, memorandum wherein 

20 he explained— 

21 (A) millions of taxpayer dollars have been 

22 spent on training Federal Government workers 

23 to ‘‘believe divisive, anti-American propaganda’’; 


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1 (B) training sessions that have taught 

2 ‘‘virtually all White people contribute [or ben3 efit from] to racism’’; and 

4 (C) training sessions have claimed that 

5 ‘‘there is racism embedded in the belief that 

6 America is the land of opportunity or the belief 

7 that the most qualified person should receive a 

8 job’’. 

9 (6) In the September 4, 2020, memorandum, 

10 Director Vought further explained that such 

11 trainings, ‘‘not only run counter to the fundamental 

12 beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its in13 ception, but they also engender division and resent14 ment within the Federal workforce’’. 

15 (7) EO 13950 and the September 4, 2020, 

16 memorandum stood as a direct rebuke of so-called 

17 ‘‘Critical Race Theory’’. 

18 (8) Critical Race Theory, according to Heritage 

19 Foundation visiting fellow Chris Rufo, is ‘‘the idea 

20 that the United States is a fundamentally racist 

21 country and that all of our institutions including the 

22 law, culture, business, the economy are all designed 

23 to maintain white supremacy’’. 


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1 (9) Critical Race Theory is, at its core, un2 American, discriminatory, and based on Marxist ide3 ology. 

4 (10) Critical Race Theory relies on a Marxist 

5 analytical framework, viewing society in terms of op6 pressed and oppressor, and instills a defeatist men7 tality in those it casts as the oppressed. 

8 (11) Critical Race Theory’s objective is the de9 struction and replacement of Western Enlighten10 ment Liberalism with a Marxist influenced govern11 ment. 

12 (12) Critical Race Theory intentionally seeks to 

13 undermine capitalism and western values, such as 

14 property rights, free speech, and the very concept of 

15 Lockean natural rights. 

16 (13) At the Department of Homeland Security, 

17 Rufo explained, trainers ‘‘insisted that statements 

18 such as ‘America is the land of opportunity’, ‘Every19 body can succeed in this society, if they work hard 

20 enough’, and ‘I believe the most qualified person 

21 should get the job’ are racist and harmful’’. 

22 (14) At a training session at the National Cred23 it Union Administration, Howard Ross taught that 

24 ‘‘It is irrefutable that [America society] is a system 

25 based on racism’’ and ‘‘good and decent [white] peoVerDate Sep 11 2014 20:17 Jun 17, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3235.IH H3235

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1 ple . . . support the status quo [of] a system of sys2 tematized racism’’. 

3 (15) According to Rufo, employees of the De4 partment of the Treasury and Federal financial 

5 agencies attended a series of events at which diver6 sity trainer Howard Ross taught employees that all 

7 White Americans are complicit in White supremacy 

8 ‘‘by automatic response to the ways were taught 

9 Whiteness includes white privilege and white su10 premacy’’. 

11 (16) Martin Luther King Jr., in his ‘‘I have a 

12 dream speech’’ said, ‘‘I look to a day when people 

13 will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by 

14 the content of their character’’. 

15 (17) By teaching that certain individuals, by 

16 virtue of inherent characteristics, are inherently 

17 flawed, Critical Race Theory contradicts the basic 

18 principle upon which our Nation was founded that 

19 all men and women are created equal. 

20 (18) Critical Race Theory’s teachings stand in 

21 contrast to the overarching goal of the Civil Rights 

22 Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination on the basis 

23 of race, color, or national origin in the United 

24 States. 


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1 (19) Critical Race Theory seeks to portray the 

2 United States not as a united Nation of people, fam3 ilies, and communities striving for a common pur4 pose, but rather one of many victimized groups 

5 based on sex, race, national origin, and gender. 

6 (20) Critical Race Theory, and its emphasis on 

7 predetermining the thoughts, beliefs, and actions of 

8 a person, flouts the Constitution of the United 

9 States guarantee of equal protection under the law 

10 to all men and women. 

11 (21) On January 20, 2021, President Joe 

12 Biden issued an Executive order revoking President 

13 Trump’s EO 13950. 

14 (22) The American people should defend the 

15 civil rights of all people and seek to eliminate racism 

16 wherever it exists. Critical Race Theory and its 

17 propagation within the Federal Government through 

18 President Biden’s executive action desecrates this 

19 paramount pursuit. 

20 (b) PROHIBITION.—No executive agency (as defined 

21 in section 105 of title 5, United States Code) may act in 

22 contravention of Executive Order 13950 (85 Fed. Reg. 

23 60683; relating to combating race and sex stereotyping), 


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1 except as such Executive order relates to contractors and 

2 grant recipients. 

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