IA 
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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 117 
Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during 
events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Vir-
ginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while moni-
toring 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 in the attack, 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 
Mr. GARRETT (for himself, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mrs. COMSTOCK, Mr. BEYER, Mr. 
GRIFFITH, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. BRAT, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. TAY-
LOR, Mr. GOODLATTE, and Mr. WITTMAN) submitted the following joint 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
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 in the attack, expressing support for the 
Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, 
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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 ad-
dress the threats posed by those groups. 
Whereas, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, a day be-
fore a White nationalist demonstration was scheduled to 
occur in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of torch-bear-
ing White nationalists, White supremacists, Klansmen, 
and neo-Nazis chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-im-
migrant slogans and violently engaged with counter-dem-
onstrators on and around the grounds of the University 
of Virginia in Charlottesville; 
Whereas, on Saturday, August 12, 2017, ahead of the sched-
uled start time of the planned march, protestors and 
counter-demonstrators gathered at Emancipation Park in 
Charlottesville; 
Whereas the extremist demonstration turned violent, culmi-
nating 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 
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 heal-
ing process following this horrific and violent display of 
bigotry; and 
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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 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That Congress— 
(1) condemns the racist violence and domestic 
terrorist attack that took place between August 11 
and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia; 
(2) recognizes— 
(A) Heather Heyer, who was killed, and 19 
other individuals who were injured in the re-
ported domestic terrorist attack; and 
(B) several other individuals who were in-
jured in separate attacks while standing up to 
hate and intolerance; 
(3) recognizes the public service and heroism of 
Virginia State Police officers Lieutenant H. Jay 
Cullen and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, who 
lost their lives while responding to the events from 
the air; 
(4) offers— 
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(A) condolences to the families and friends 
of Heather Heyer, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 
and Trooper Pilot Berke M.M. Bates; and 
(B) sympathy and support to those individ-
uals who are recovering from injuries sustained 
during the attacks; 
(5) expresses support for the Charlottesville 
community as the community heals following this 
demonstration of violent bigotry; 
(6) rejects White nationalism, White suprem-
acy, and neo-Nazism as hateful expressions of intol-
erance that are contradictory to the values that de-
fine the people of the United States; and 
(7) urges— 
(A) the President and his administration 
to— 
(i) speak out against hate groups that 
espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, 
anti-Semitism, and White supremacy; and 
(ii) use all resources available to the 
President and the President’s Cabinet to 
address the growing prevalence of those 
hate groups in the United States; and 
(B) the Attorney General to work with— 
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(i) the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity to investigate thoroughly all acts of vi-
olence, intimidation, and domestic ter-
rorism by White supremacists, White na-
tionalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, 
and associated groups in order to deter-
mine if any criminal laws have been vio-
lated and to prevent those groups from fo-
menting and facilitating additional vio-
lence; and 
(ii) the heads of other Federal agen-
cies to improve the reporting of hate 
crimes and to emphasize the importance of 
the collection, and the reporting to the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate 
crime data by State and local agencies. 
Æ 
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