IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 920 
Calling on the Senate to remove the name of Richard B. Russell from 
the Russell Senate Office Building. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 9, 2022 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. CARSON, Mr. COOPER, 
Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. KHANNA, 
Ms. LEE of California, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. 
TAKANO, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. VEASEY, Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, 
Ms. BASS, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. LAWSON of 
Florida, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. CHU, Mr. EVANS, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
JONES, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. STANSBURY, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. 
BOWMAN, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. MENG, Mr. LIEU, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, 
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. LOF-
GREN, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. RASKIN, and Mr. GARAMENDI) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the Senate to remove the name of Richard B. 
Russell from the Russell Senate Office Building. 
Whereas Senator Richard B. Russell opposed civil rights as 
‘‘unconstitutional and unwise’’; 
Whereas in 1935, Senator Russell participated in his first fil-
ibuster of a civil rights bill, when he and his colleagues 
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in the Senate stopped an anti-lynching bill with 6 days 
of nonstop talking; 
Whereas in 1936, Senator Russell stated in a re-election cam-
paign speech that ‘‘as one who was born and reared in 
the atmosphere of the Old South, with six generations of 
my forebears now resting beneath Southern soil, I am 
willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to pre-
serve and insure white supremacy in the social, economic, 
and political life of our state as any man who lives within 
her borders’’; 
Whereas in 1956, Senator Russell wrote an initial draft of 
the Southern Manifesto, the bicameral resolution stating 
support for segregation and refusal to observe Brown v. 
Board of Education; 
Whereas, because President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Senator Russell, along with 
more than a dozen other Senators, including Herman 
Talmadge, boycotted the 1964 Democratic National Con-
vention in Atlantic City; 
Whereas, on March 17, 1964, the New York Times published 
an article entitled, ‘‘Relocate Negroes Evenly in States’’, 
in which Senator Russell proposed a voluntary ‘‘racial re-
location’’ program to adjust the imbalance of the African- 
American population between the 11 States of the old 
Confederacy and the rest of the Union; 
Whereas in 1972, shortly after Senator Russell’s death, the 
Senate voted in an overwhelming majority (99–1) that 
the Old Senate Office Building be named the Russell 
Senate Office Building; 
Whereas historian Gilbert C. Fite wrote at the conclusion of 
his biography of Senator Russell, ‘‘White supremacy and 
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racial segregation were to him cardinal principles for 
good and workable human relationships’’; and 
Whereas Public Law 115–58, a joint resolution signed into 
law on September 14, 2017, rejects ‘‘White nationalism, 
White supremacy, and neoNazism’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) once again rejects white nationalism and 
white supremacy as hateful expressions of intoler-
ance that are contradictory to the values that define 
the people of the United States; 
(2) condemns the use of captions, statutes, me-
morials, and artwork used or erected to memorialize 
Senator Richard B. Russell, or any other lawmaker 
who intentionally disavowed the Declaration of 
Independence’s exhortation that all persons are cre-
ated equal; and 
(3) calls on the Senate to remove the name of 
Richard B. Russell from the Russell Senate Office 
Building and to revert to using the building’s origi-
nal name, the Old Senate Office Building, until the 
Senate finds a suitable honoree. 
Æ 
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