Title: Condemning and censuring President Donald Trump.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This resolution censures and condemns the President for his tweets made on July 14 and 15, 2019, and states that they are xenophobic, promote white supremacist and nativist ideologies, and violate the President's oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.
The resolution further calls on the President to apologize for the comments described in this resolution, stating that they have disgraced the Office of the President and dishonored the United States of America.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 490 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 490

            Condemning and censuring President Donald Trump.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2019

  Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. 
 Tlaib, Ms. Omar, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Castro of Texas, 
  Ms. Jayapal, and Ms. Pressley) submitted the following resolution; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
            Condemning and censuring President Donald Trump.

Whereas since its founding, our Nation has recognized the strength in diversity 
        by making our national motto E Pluribus Unum;
Whereas we continue to strive to live up to our national values equality, 
        opportunity, and pluralism as we continuously strive to create a more 
        perfect union;
Whereas President Donald Trump has continually maligned and scapegoated 
        immigrants, people of color, and religious minorities, and attempted to 
        use race and national origin to degrade people of color and delegitimize 
        public officials;
Whereas President Donald Trump has a long history of making repugnant 
        statements, including stating that ``both sides'' were to blame for the 
        violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, attempting to create a moral 
        equivalency between White supremacists, the KKK, neo-Nazi groups, and 
        those counter-protesting the ``Unite the Right'' rally, and referring to 
        African nations as ``shithole countries'' or ``shithouse countries'';
Whereas the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has planned to intimate 
        domestic immigration raids, targeting thousands of migrant families;
Whereas to sow widespread fear, on June 19, 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted 
        ``Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of 
        illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United 
        States.'';
Whereas on July 14, when ICE was expected to initiate coordinated immigration 
        raids across the United States, President Donald Trump tweeted ``So 
        interesting to see `Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally 
        came from countries whose governments are a complete and total 
        catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if 
        they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly . . . and 
        viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most 
        powerful Nation on earth, how our Government is to be run. Why don't 
        they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places 
        from which they came. Then come back and show us how . . . it is done. 
        These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure 
        that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel 
        arrangements!'';
Whereas President Donald Trump was referring to Representatives Alexandra Ocasio 
        Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, who are all 
        United States citizens and duly elected members of the House of 
        Representatives;
Whereas these comments were widely criticized as racist and designed to promote 
        a White nationalist view of the United States where immigrants and 
        people of color should be expelled;
Whereas on July 15, President Donald Trump was asked if ``it concerned you that 
        many people saw that tweet as racist and that White nationalists are 
        finding common cause with you on that point?'', and responded by stating 
        that ``It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me and all 
        I'm saying is if they want to leave, they can leave''; and
Whereas in response to the criticism and outrage about his comments, President 
        Donald Trump sought to further divide the Nation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) censures and condemns President Donald Trump for his 
        tweets made on July 14 and 15, 2019, which are xenophobic, 
        promote White supremacist and nativist ideologies, and violate 
        the President's oath of office to uphold and defend the 
        Constitution, which includes respect for the democratic process 
        and the Congress; and
            (2) calls on President Donald Trump to apologize for his 
        repugnant comments described in this resolution which have 
        disgraced the Office of the President and dishonored the United 
        States of America.
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