•HRES 936 IH 
Whereas, in 1898, the United States— 
(1) annexed Hawaii; 
(2) took control of the Philippines; and 
(3) excluded only the residents of Chinese ancestry 
of Hawaii and the Philippines from entering the main-
land of the United States; 
Whereas, on April 29, 1902, as the Geary Act was expiring, 
Congress indefinitely extended all laws regulating and re-
stricting Chinese immigration and residence, to the ex-
tent consistent with Treaty commitments; 
Whereas, on April 27, 1904, after the Chinese Government 
withdrew from the Gresham-Yang Treaty, Congress per-
manently extended ‘‘without modification, limitation, or 
condition’’ the prohibition on Chinese naturalization and 
immigration in the United States; 
Whereas these Federal statutes enshrined in law the exclu-
sion of Chinese people in the United States from the 
democratic process and the promise of freedom; 
Whereas, in an attempt to undermine the alliance between 
the United States and China during World War II, 
enemy forces used the Chinese exclusion legislation 
passed by Congress as evidence of anti-Chinese attitudes 
in the United States; 
Whereas, on November 26, 1943, in furtherance of the war 
objectives of the United States and at the urging of 
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congress passed the 
Magnuson Act (57 Stat. 600, chapter 344), which— 
(1) repealed previously enacted Chinese exclusion 
legislation; 
(2) permitted Chinese people to become naturalized 
citizens of the United States; and 
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(3) was signed into law by President Roosevelt on 
December 17, 1943; 
Whereas, on October 6, 2011, the Senate unanimously agreed 
to a resolution sponsored by Senator Scott Brown which 
formally expressed regret for the passage of discrimina-
tory laws against Chinese Americans, including the Chi-
nese Exclusion Act of 1882; 
Whereas, on June 18, 2012, the House of Representatives 
unanimously agreed to a resolution sponsored by Rep-
resentative Judy Chu which formally expressed regret for 
the passage of laws that adversely affected Chinese 
Americans, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; 
Whereas Chinese Americans continue to play a significant 
role in the success of the United States; and 
Whereas the United States must continue to reject anti-Asian 
hate and to build a country that does not perpetuate rac-
ist or xenophobic rhetoric or policies that have long 
profiled Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific 
Islander communities in the United States: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the 
repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (22 
Stat. 58, chapter 126); 
(2) celebrates Chinese American communities 
who have enriched the fabric of the United States; 
(3) acknowledges that historic and current 
frameworks of anti-Chinese legislation, including the 
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, are incompatible 
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with the basic founding principles recognized in the 
Declaration of Independence and with the spirit of 
the Constitution of the United States; and 
(4) reaffirms its commitment to preserving the 
same civil rights and constitutional protections for 
people of Chinese or other Asian, Native Hawaiian, 
and Pacific Islander descent in the United States ac-
corded to all other people in the United States, re-
gardless of race or ethnicity. 
Æ 
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