IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 981 
Commemorating the 1-year anniversary of the March 16, 2021, shootings 
in Atlanta, Georgia, and denouncing anti-Asian hate. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 15, 2022 
Ms. CHU (for herself, Ms. BOURDEAUX, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. WILLIAMS of 
Georgia, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 
BONAMICI, Ms. DELBENE, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. RUSH, Mr. 
CARTER of Louisiana, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. LOWENTHAL, 
Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. VARGAS, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, 
Mr. TAKANO, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Mr. BERA, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. SPEIER, Ms. MATSUI, 
Ms. BASS, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. TRONE, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. KIM of New 
Jersey, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. KILMER, Ms. MENG, Mr. 
LEVIN of California, Ms. NEWMAN, Mrs. LEE of Nevada, Mr. SARBANES, 
Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. CASE, Mr. SABLAN, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Mr. SCOTT of Vir-
ginia, Mr. SIRES, Mr. LIEU, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. TITUS, Ms. 
LEE of California, Mr. KAHELE, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. DAVID 
SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. PORTER, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Mr. CARSON, Mr. BEYER, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mr. PALLONE, Mrs. 
FLETCHER, and Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Commemorating the 1-year anniversary of the March 16, 
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2021, shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and denouncing 
anti-Asian hate. 
Whereas, on March 16, 2021, a shooter murdered 8 people 
and injured 1 person in the Atlanta, Georgia, region in 
3 separate shootings that took place at Asian-owned spas; 
Whereas March 16, 2022, is the 1-year anniversary of those 
tragic shootings; 
Whereas the victims’ names were Xiaojie ‘‘Emily’’ Tan, 
Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, 
Yong Ae Yue, Soon Chung ‘‘Julie’’ Park, Hyun Jung 
Grant, and Sun Cha Kim; 
Whereas, on this anniversary, the people of the United States 
continue to mourn the loss of 8 innocent lives, 7 of whom 
were women, 6 of whom were women of Asian descent, 
and several of whom were immigrants; 
Whereas the Georgia shootings occurred amidst an alarming 
surge in anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, which has 
caused many Asians and Asian Americans across the 
United States to feel fearful and unsafe; 
Whereas prosecutors in Georgia’s Fulton County, where 1 of 
the spas was located, are seeking hate crimes penalties 
against the shooter; 
Whereas the shootings that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, 
have become an inflection point for the Asian American 
and Pacific Islander community; 
Whereas, in the days and weeks following the shootings, there 
was an outpouring of support for the Asian American 
and Pacific Islander community, and actions were taken 
across the country to address anti-Asian hate; 
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Whereas March 26, 2021, was designated as a ‘‘National Day 
of Action and Healing’’, in response to the rise of anti- 
Asian hate and the Georgia shootings; 
Whereas, on May 20, 2021, President Biden signed the 
COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act into law to make resources 
available to address anti-Asian hate and improve the hate 
crime reporting process; 
Whereas, in the year since the Atlanta shooting, hate crimes 
have continued to spike; 
Whereas, in 2021, anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 339 
percent, and in 2020, they increased by 124 percent; 
Whereas over 11,000 hate incidents have been reported to 
Stop AAPI Hate since the start of the pandemic, and 
many more have gone unreported; 
Whereas nearly 1 in 5 Asian Americans (21.2 percent) and 
Pacific Islanders (20.0 percent) has experienced a hate 
incident in 2021; 
Whereas Asian American and Pacific Islander women are 
more likely to be targeted according to Stop AAPI Hate; 
Whereas 74 percent of AAPI women overall have reported ex-
periencing racism or discrimination in the past year; 
Whereas the majority of East Asian American women report 
feeling less safe since the start of the pandemic; 
Whereas 1 in 3 Asian American parents (30.6 percent) and 
Pacific Islander parents (31.4 percent) has a child that 
has experienced a hate incident at school in the past 
year; 
Whereas 42 percent of Asian Americans believe that racial 
discrimination is the factor in their lives that has had the 
greatest negative impact on their mental health; 
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Whereas, before this rise in hate incidents, online hate speech 
against Asians increased 2,770 percent between 2019 
and 2020; 
Whereas the use of anti-Asian rhetoric related to COVID–19, 
such as the ‘‘Chinese virus’’, ‘‘Wuhan virus’’, and ‘‘kung 
flu’’, has perpetuated anti-Asian stigma that has resulted 
in Asian Americans being harassed, assaulted, and 
scapegoated for the COVID–19 pandemic and economic 
distress in the United States; 
Whereas the use of rhetoric that portrays Asian countries, 
and by extension Asian nationals, as enemies of the 
United States has further contributed to the scapegoating 
of Asian Americans and the rise in anti-Asian hate; 
Whereas xenophobic rhetoric that paints China as a unique 
and existential enemy or which seeks to make all of 
China responsible for the coronavirus, contrary to advice 
from the World Health Organization, contributes to anti- 
Asian hate; 
Whereas the COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act, legislation to ad-
dress the rise of anti-Asian hate and improve hate crimes 
reporting, was passed with strong bipartisan support in 
both the House and Senate; and 
Whereas the people of the United States continue to remem-
ber the victims of these shootings and stand in solidarity 
with those affected by this senseless tragedy: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the heinous and inexcusable acts 
of gun violence that led to the tragic loss of 8 lives 
in Georgia on March 16, 2021; 
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(2) condemns the racism and sexism in the 
choice of the shooter to target Asian-owned busi-
nesses and murder 7 women, 6 of whom were of 
Asian descent; 
(3) honors the memory of the victims and offers 
heartfelt condolences to their families; 
(4) recognizes the irrevocable impact the shoot-
ing has on the Asian American and Pacific Islander 
community and all communities impacted by this 
tragedy; 
(5) recognizes that anti-Asian hate continues to 
impact the Asian American and Pacific Islander 
community; 
(6) reaffirms the importance of addressing anti- 
Asian hate at all levels of government and improving 
hate crimes reporting infrastructure through the im-
plementation of the COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act; 
and 
(7) reaffirms the commitment of the Federal 
Government to combat hate, bigotry, and violence 
against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and 
to prevent tragedies like this from ever happening 
again. 
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