IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 494 
Condemning the false, inflammatory, and racially offensive statements made 
by the President of the United States regarding four women of color 
who are duly elected Members of the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 16, 2019 
Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself and Mr. COHEN) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the false, inflammatory, and racially offensive 
statements made by the President of the United States 
regarding four women of color who are duly elected Mem-
bers of the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress. 
Whereas, on November 6, 2018, in an election widely re-
garded as a referendum on the performance and dis-
approval of the administration of President Donald J. 
Trump, the American people voted to vest control of the 
House of Representatives in the Democratic Party to re-
store the system of checks and balances designed by the 
Framers in 1787 in Philadelphia; 
Whereas the Representatives elected to the One Hundred Six-
teenth Congress comprise the most diverse class in Amer-
ican history with respect to its racial, ethnic, and reli-
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gious composition, and also includes the largest contin-
gent of female Representatives and the most Members 
ever of the LGBTQ community; 
Whereas among the cohort of the 40 Representatives first 
elected to the Congress in the November 2018 election 
are several whose membership is historic, including the 
Representative for the 7th District of Massachusetts, the 
first African-American woman elected from the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts; the Representative from the 
13th District of Michigan, the first Palestinian-American 
woman elected to Congress; the Representative from the 
14th District of New York, the youngest woman ever 
elected to Congress; and the Representative from the 5th 
District of Minnesota, the first Somali-American elected 
to Congress; 
Whereas in the discharge of their official duties as Members 
of Congress, the aforementioned Representatives traveled 
to the southern border of the United States to observe 
the living conditions and treatment received by migrants 
and refugees seeking asylum in the United States who 
are currently being held in detention facilities, some con-
sisting of nothing more than tent villages cordoned off 
under highways; 
Whereas the migrants and refugees being detained sought 
refuge in the United States for the same reasons as the 
tens of millions who came before them, in this century 
and the last, from this continent and from every other 
and from all corners of the globe; 
Whereas the migrants and refugees being detained sought 
refuge in the United States to be free of fear and hunger, 
to better their condition, to begin their world anew, and 
to give their children a chance for a better life, seeking 
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to leave the pain of the Old World for the hope and 
promise of the New World; 
Whereas upon their return to the capital, the aforementioned 
Representatives reported their shock and horror regard-
ing the inhumane conditions to which detainees were 
being subjected by the U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion at a public hearing of a standing committee of the 
House of Representatives; 
Whereas, on July 14, 2019, the President of the United 
States reacted to the criticism of his administration’s 
treatment of detainees by the aforementioned Represent-
atives in a series of tweets that questioned their loyalty 
to the United States and implied that the circumstances 
of their birth gave them no right to exercise the respon-
sibilities and privileges of duly elected Members of Con-
gress; 
Whereas the President tweeted about the aforementioned 
Representatives: ‘‘So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ 
Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from 
countries whose governments are a complete and total ca-
tastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in 
the world (if they even have a functioning government at 
all), now loudly . . . and viciously telling the people of 
the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation 
on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t 
they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime 
infested places from which they came’’; 
Whereas the President’s statements are false, inflammatory, 
and racially offensive and unbecoming the Nation’s chief 
executive; 
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