IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 16 
Urging that the International Olympic Committee rebid the 2022 Olympic 
Winter Games, and expressing the sense of Congress that the United 
States Olympic & Paralympic Committee should not participate if the 
Games are held in the People’s Republic of China and that the United 
States Government should lead an international boycott if the Games 
are held in the People’s Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Mr. RESCHENTHALER submitted the following concurrent resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Urging that the International Olympic Committee rebid the 
2022 Olympic Winter Games, and expressing the sense 
of Congress that the United States Olympic & 
Paralympic Committee should not participate if the 
Games are held in the People’s Republic of China and 
that the United States Government should lead an inter-
national boycott if the Games are held in the People’s 
Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
Whereas, in 2015, the International Olympic Committee an-
nounced Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic 
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of China, as the host city of the 2022 Olympic Winter 
Games; 
Whereas the Olympic charter states the goal of Olympism is 
to promote ‘‘a peaceful society concerned with the preser-
vation of human dignity’’; 
Whereas, according to the September 2020 House of Rep-
resentatives China Task Force Report, the Government 
of China is the leading human rights abuser in the world, 
depriving 1,400,000,000 human beings of their funda-
mental rights; 
Whereas, since 2017, the Government of China has detained 
and persecuted up to 1,800,000 Turkic Muslims, includ-
ing ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz, in ‘‘political 
re-education’’ centers, and many detainees who have not 
‘‘graduated’’ from the facilities have been convicted of 
formal crimes and sentenced to prison terms; 
Whereas detained and imprisoned Muslim minorities in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are held arbitrarily 
and without due process, coerced to disavow religious be-
liefs and cultural practices, forced to work in factories, 
deprived of food and other essential needs, and subjected 
to physical abuse, including torture and alleged organ 
harvesting; 
Whereas the Government of China is implementing a policy 
of employing large numbers of Uyghurs, including former 
detainees, in labor-intensive factories in Xinjiang and 
elsewhere in China under forced labor conditions; 
Whereas the Government of China has implemented policies 
against minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region to lower birth rates, including forced abor-
tions, sterilizations, and contraception; 
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