•HRES 494 IH 
Whereas the recent statements of the President are inac-
curate and offensive but consistent with prior statements 
he has made to stoke division, discord, and disharmony 
among the American people; 
Whereas the current President of the United States bur-
nished his political reputation by claiming falsely for 
more than five years that his predecessor was born in 
Kenya and not the United States and thus was an illegit-
imate President; 
Whereas the current President of the United States launched 
his 2016 campaign for the Presidency said of persons 
from Mexico seeking to immigrate to the United States: 
‘‘They‘re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re 
rapists.’’; 
Whereas the current President of the United States claimed 
that a Hispanic Federal jurist could not preside over a 
court proceeding to which he was a defendant accused of 
civil fraud because ‘‘He’s a Mexican’’; 
Whereas in January 2018, the current President of the 
United States is reported to have inquired of his advi-
sors: ‘‘Why are we having all these people from shithole 
countries come here?’’, referring to persons from coun-
tries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South 
America; 
Whereas, on August 15, 2017, the current President of the 
United States said he regarded as some ‘‘very fine peo-
ple’’ the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and Ku Klux 
Klansmen who descended on the peaceful community of 
Charlottesville, Virginia, to advocate racism and who 
were met by peaceful counterprotesters; 
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•HRES 494 IH 
Whereas in his continuous and determined effort to exacer-
bate ethnic tensions and racial divisions in the body poli-
tic, the current President of the United States is reveal-
ing himself to be an unwitting instrument of the plan 
hatched in Moscow by Russian Federation President 
Vladimir Putin to interfere in the 2016 Presidential cam-
paign to help elect his preferred candidate and sow dis-
cord and division among the American people; and 
Whereas statements and actions of the current President of 
the United States demean the Office he holds and falls 
short of the standard set by the 16th President, whose 
administration was devoted to unity, healing, and ending 
racial division and who famously foretold in his March 4, 
1861, Inaugural Address the reasons why the efforts of 
the current President of the United States are destined 
to fail: ‘‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not 
be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must 
not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of 
memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will 
be, by the better angels of our nature.’’: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly condemns the false, inflammatory, 
and racially offensive statements made by the Presi-
dent of the United States regarding four women of 
color who are duly elected Members of the One Hun-
dred Sixteenth Congress; 
(2) calls upon all Americans to celebrate the 
ethnic, racial, and religious diversity that has made 
the United States the leader of the community of 
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nations and the beacon of hope and inspiration to 
oppressed persons everywhere; and 
(3) encourages all persons in the United States 
to cherish and exercise the rights, privileges, and re-
sponsibilities guaranteed by the Constitution of the 
United States. 
Æ 
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