A joint resolution condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured by the violence, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.

Bill: 115-sjres-49
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Hate crimes
Law enforcement officers
Political movements and philosophies
Presidential administrations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations
Terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 
This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values. 
 
Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community.
 
Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.

action_date: 2017-09-11
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values. 
 
Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community.
 
Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.

action_date: 2017-09-12
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values. 
 
Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community.
 
Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.

action_date: 2017-09-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values. 
 
Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community.
 
Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-14
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2017-09-14
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2017-09-14
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2017-09-14
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H7288)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H7288)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Mr. Goodlatte asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H7287-7288)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2017-09-11
text: Passed Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5165; text: CR S5165)
action_date: 2017-09-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5165; text: CR S5165)
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 212.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5006)
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 115-58