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Whereas, in 2022, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and 
Pacific Islanders honorably serve at all levels of the Fed-
eral judiciary; 
Whereas, since March 2020, there has been a dramatic in-
crease in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents 
related to the COVID–19 pandemic, and in that time pe-
riod— 
(1) there has been a 339-percent increase in anti- 
Asian hate crimes in 2021, and a 124-percent increase in 
2020; 
(2) there have been over 11,000 hate incidents that 
have been reported since the start of the pandemic, ac-
cording to Stop AAPI Hate, and countless others that 
have not been reported; 
(3) in the Atlanta, Georgia, region on March 16, 
2021, 8 people were murdered, including 6 Asian women, 
at 3 separate Asian-owned businesses; and 
(4) 1 in 5 Asian Americans (21.2 percent) and Pa-
cific Islanders (20.0 percent) reported experiencing a 
hate incident in 2021, according to Stop AAPI Hate; 
Whereas discrimination targeting Asian Americans, especially 
in moments of crisis, is not a new phenomenon and has 
occurred throughout United States history, including— 
(1) the Page Act of 1875, which prohibited Chinese- 
American women from immigrating to the United States; 
(2) the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which was 
the first law to explicitly name an entire ethnic group for 
exclusion from immigrating to the United States; 
(3) the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, 
which authorized the relocation and incarceration of ap-
proximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry 
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during World War II, the majority of whom were United 
States citizens; 
(4) the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 by two 
White autoworkers who mistakenly believed that Chin 
was Japanese and blamed him for the loss of their jobs 
due to the rise of the Japanese automotive industry; 
(5) the Cleveland Elementary School shooting on 
January 17, 1989, where a gunman used an AK–47 to 
kill 5 children, 4 of whom were of Southeast Asian de-
scent; 
(6) the rise in discrimination and violence against 
Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian Americans following the 
September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center 
and the Pentagon; and 
(7) the mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak 
Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012, where a White su-
premacist fatally shot 6 people and wounded 4 others; 
Whereas, in response to the uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes 
throughout the COVID–19 pandemic, Congress passed 
the COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act (Public Law 117–13), 
which was signed into law by President Joseph R. Biden 
on May 20, 2021; 
Whereas there remains much to be done to ensure that Asian 
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders have 
access to resources and a voice in the government of the 
United States and continue to advance in the political 
landscape of the United States; and 
Whereas 
celebrating 
‘‘Asian/Pacific 
American 
Heritage 
Month’’ provides the people of the United States with an 
opportunity to recognize the achievements, contributions, 
and history of, and to understand the challenges faced 
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by, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Is-
landers: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the significance of ‘‘Asian/Pacific 
American Heritage Month’’ as an important time to 
celebrate the significant contributions of Asian 
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders 
to the history of the United States; and 
(2) recognizes that Asian American, Native Ha-
waiian, and Pacific Islander communities strengthen 
and enhance the rich diversity of the United States. 
Æ 
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