Condemning Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the President and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that he should immediately resign from office.

IV 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. RES. 858 Condemning Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the President and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that he should immediately resign from office. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 13, 2020 Mr. CASTRO of Texas (for himself, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. BASS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. SCHNEIDER, and Mr. BEYER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju- diciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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 com- mittee concerned RESOLUTION Condemning Stephen Miller for his trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive political rhetoric and policies that are inconsistent with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the President and express- ing the sense of the House of Representatives that he should immediately resign from office. Whereas Public Law 115–58, a joint resolution signed into law on September 14, 2017, rejects ‘‘white nationalism, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups’’; VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:52 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR858.IH HR858 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HRES 858 IH Whereas, on January 15, 2019, the House of Representatives passed a resolution ‘‘reject[ing] White nationalism and White supremacy as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that define the people of the United States’’; Whereas White supremacy and White nationalism are con- trary to the ideals of the United States of America, which has long embraced inclusive patriotism and welcomed im- migrants from across the globe, enriching our Nation; Whereas Stephen Miller has long cultivated relationships and correspondence with those who follow White nationalist ideologies; Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller pri- marily concern the subjects of race and immigration, ex- clusively focus on offenses committed by non-Whites, and promote policies to severely limit or end non-White immi- gration to the United States; Whereas, in his emails, Stephen Miller directly and repeatedly suggested story ideas to the website Breitbart, pushing Breitbart’s news coverage to reference White suprema- cist, racist, and eugenic ideologies; Whereas a former Breibart editor has acknowledged Stephen Miller’s suggestions were used to ‘‘spin a narrative where immigrants of color were not only dangerous, violent indi- viduals but also posed an existential threat to America’’; Whereas eugenics is a set of racist beliefs—embraced by Adolf Hitler—that the human population can be im- proved by promoting genetic groups deemed to be ‘‘supe- rior’’ and eliminating or excluding genetic groups deemed to be ‘‘inferior’’; VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:52 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR858.IH HR858 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HRES 858 IH Whereas, in his emails, Stephen Miller repeatedly rec- ommended that Brietbart write articles supporting Calvin Coolidge and the Immigration Act of 1924, a law based on eugenic ideology that created a ‘‘national origin’’ quota system aimed at restricting immigration to the United States from areas other than Northern and West- ern Europe; Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 prohibited all immigra- tion from Asia, severely restricted immigration from Afri- ca, and used outdated census data to exclude many other people who were deemed by some as ‘‘inferior’’ or ‘‘unde- sirable’’, including immigrants from Southern and East- ern Europe; Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 was strongly sup- ported at the time by eugenicists and reflected the perva- siveness of anti-immigrant and nativist sentiment at the time; Whereas President Coolidge once wrote that, ‘‘Our country must cease to be regarded as a dumping ground [for new immigrants] . . . Biological laws tell us that certain diver- gent people will not mix or blend’’; Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 was the same law that Adolf Hitler described as a model for Nazi Germany in ‘‘Mein Kampf’’ to help make his eugenic ideology a re- ality; Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 controlled American immigration policy until the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, which abandoned eu- genic ideology and eliminated the ‘‘national origin’’ quota system; VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:52 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR858.IH HR858 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 4 •HRES 858 IH Whereas Stephen Miller is now widely understood to direct immigration policy for the Trump administration, includ- ing support for legislative and administrative proposals that would severely reduce immigration to the United States; and Whereas Stephen Miller’s leadership position brings discredit upon the White House: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That— 1 (1) the House of Representatives does hereby 2 condemn Stephen Miller for his trafficking in big- 3 otry, hatred, and divisive political rhetoric and poli- 4 cies that are inconsistent with the trust and con- 5 fidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the 6 President; and 7 (2) it is the sense of the House of Representa- 8 tives that Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the 9 President, should immediately resign from office, 10 and if he does not resign, the President should re- 11 move him from office. 12 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:52 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR858.IH HR858 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS