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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…

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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 in the attack, 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.

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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.

What's happening now September 7, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 9
All 9 Democratic 3 Republican 2
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Sep 18, 2017
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Beyer, Donald S.
Virginia · Sep 7, 2017
Brat, Dave
· Sep 7, 2017
Comstock, Barbara
· Sep 7, 2017
GOODLATTE, ROBERT
· Sep 7, 2017
 R
Griffith, H. Morgan
Virginia · Sep 7, 2017
 D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Virginia · Sep 7, 2017
Taylor, Scott
· Sep 7, 2017
 R
Wittman, Robert J.
Virginia · Sep 7, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.J. Res. 117: 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 in the attack, 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.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HJRES-117/
MLA
"H.J. Res. 117: 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 in the attack, 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.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HJRES-117/.
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H.J. Res. 117, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HJRES-117/.
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[H.J. Res. 117: 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 in the attack, 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.](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HJRES-117/)
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