[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 498 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. RES. 498
Condemning Stephen Miller for trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and
divisive political rhetoric and for promoting 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 Senate that
Stephen Miller should immediately resign from office.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 13, 2020
Ms. Harris (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, Mr.
Blumenthal, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
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RESOLUTION
Condemning Stephen Miller for trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and
divisive political rhetoric and for promoting 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 Senate that
Stephen Miller should immediately resign from office.
Whereas Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution signed into law on September 14,
2017--
(1) rejects White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis, and other hate groups; and
(2) states that in August 2017, White nationalists, White supremacists,
Klansmen, and neo-Nazis gathered and demonstrated in Charlottesville,
Virginia, chanting racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and
causing violence, from which the Charlottesville community is still
healing;
Whereas Stephen Miller is a Senior Advisor to President Trump and has long
cultivated relationships and correspondence with individuals who adhere
to White nationalist ideology;
Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller primarily address the
subjects of race and immigration, exclusively focus on offenses
committed by non-White individuals, and promote policies to severely
limit or end immigration to the United States by non-White individuals;
Whereas, in such emails, Stephen Miller--
(1) directly and repeatedly suggests story ideas for the website
Breitbart, encouraging Breitbart to incorporate White supremacist, racist,
and eugenics ideologies in its news coverage;
(2) adheres to White supremacist ideologies in his opposition to
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (commonly known as ``DACA''), a
policy that protects from deportation young people, many of whom know no
other home than the United States, and permits such individuals to make
valuable contributions to their communities and the United States; and
(3) repeatedly recommends that Breitbart publish favorable articles
relating to President Calvin Coolidge and the Immigration Act of 1924 (43
Stat. 153, chapter 190), a law based on eugenics ideology that established
a national origin quota system to restrict immigration from areas other
than Northern and Western Europe;
Whereas a former Breitbart editor has acknowledged that Stephen Miller's
suggestions have been used by Breitbart to ``spin a narrative where
immigrants of color were not only dangerous, violent individuals but
also posed an existential threat to America'';
Whereas eugenics encompasses the racist belief that the human population can be
improved by promoting groups considered genetically superior and
eliminating or excluding groups considered genetically inferior, a
belief that was strongly embraced by Adolf Hitler;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190) prohibited all
immigration from Asia, severely restricted immigration from Africa, and
used outdated census data to exclude many other individuals whom the
proponents of the law considered inferior or undesirable, including
Southern and Eastern Europeans;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190) was strongly
supported by eugenicists and reflected the pervasiveness of anti-
immigrant and nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century;
Whereas President Coolidge wrote, ``Our country must cease to be regarded as a
dumping ground [for new immigrants] . . . . Biological laws tell us that
certain divergent people will not mix or blend'';
Whereas, in his manifesto entitled ``Mein Kampf'', Adolf Hitler described the
Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190) as a model for Nazi
Germany to make his eugenics ideology a reality;
Whereas the national origin quotas and the eugenics ideology embodied in the
Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190) governed United
States immigration policy until the passage of the Act entitled ``An Act
to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes'',
approved October 3, 1965 (commonly known as the ``Immigration Act of
1965'') (79 Stat. 911), which replaced the national origin quota system
with a preference system based on family ties and professional and
skilled employment opportunities;
Whereas Stephen Miller is widely understood to direct immigration policy for the
Trump Administration, including by supporting legislative and
administrative proposals that would severely reduce immigration to the
United States and disproportionately reduce immigration from Africa,
Asia, and Latin America; and
Whereas Stephen Miller's leadership position brings discredit upon the White
House: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That--
(1) the Senate condemns Stephen Miller for--
(A) trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive
political rhetoric; and
(B) promoting policies that are inconsistent with
the trust and confidence placed in him as a Senior
Advisor to the President; and
(2) it is the sense of the Senate that Stephen Miller,
Senior Advisor to the President, should immediately resign from
office, and if he does not resign, the President should remove
him from office.
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