Title: Condemning the statements of Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This resolution declares that the House of Representatives (1) condemns certain statements made by Representative Ilhan Omar, (2) condemns Members of Congress who advocate for Marxist policies, and (3) reaffirms its commitment to support and defend the Constitution.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1047 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1047

  Condemning the statements of Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2020

Mr. Biggs (for himself, Mr. Perry, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Harris, Mr. Roy, 
    Mr. Budd, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Duncan) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics, 
 and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning the statements of Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

Whereas, on July 7, 2020, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said, ``We are 
        not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the 
        criminal justice system. We are fighting to tear down systems of 
        oppression that exist in housing, in education, in healthcare, in 
        employment, in the air we breathe.'';
Whereas Representative Ilhan Omar continued, ``As long as our economy and 
        political systems prioritize profit without considering who is 
        profiting, who is being shut out we will perpetuate this inequality. We 
        cannot stop at the criminal justice system, we must begin the work of 
        dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it'';
Whereas Representative Ilhan Omar has a documented history of expressing anti-
        American sentiments;
Whereas Representative Ilhan Omar and other Members of Congress continue to 
        advocate for a Marxist form of government that is incompatible with the 
        principles laid out in the founding documents of the United States;
Whereas Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto that ``[w]hen in the course 
        of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production 
        has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole 
        nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political 
        power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class 
        for oppressing another'';
Whereas Marxism, in calling for the abolition of private property, does not 
        represent equality or inspire justice, and is diametrically opposed to 
        the sensible bounds that the Framers of the Constitution established;
Whereas individuals throughout the world living under Marxist form of 
        governments and a centrally planned economy experience unparalleled 
        oppression and brutality at the hands of their governments;
Whereas these experiences show that the imposition of regulations by government 
        over economic and noneconomic decisions kill our free society;
Whereas these experiences demonstrate that the centralization of government 
        power always produces the loss of freedom;
Whereas the history of Marxism demonstrates the wisdom of the Founders' 
        understanding that no form of government can successfully control a 
        system as complex as the free market;
Whereas the United States--despite its imperfect history--remains a beacon of 
        hope and human liberty for millions across the world due to the freedoms 
        and liberties afforded to the people and the system of limited 
        government established under the Constitution; and
Whereas Members of Congress, in calling for the dismantling of this system of 
        government and supplanting it with a Marxist form of government, are 
        willfully and intentionally violating their oath to ``support and defend 
        the Constitution of the United States'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the statements of Representative Ilhan Omar of 
        Minnesota;
            (2) condemns Members of Congress who advocate for Marxist 
        policies; and
            (3) reaffirms its commitment to support and defend the 
        Constitution of the United States.
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