All credible reports of hate crimes against asian data on the collect rise of hate crimes incidents hold covid19 and to perpetrators accountable. The covid19 pandemic is an country. Risis for our over 6. 6 million americans have been infected, and almost from covid19. Ed lives of ected the almost every american for some ay and it will do so for some time as we brace for the infections. Second Asian Americans have been forced to carry the added anxiety of prejudice, racial including racially motivated harassment and violence stemming from a stigma thats unfairly associated them with covid19 virus origins in china, a stigma thats been reinforced by rhetoric a link. Ng such according to the Asian Pacific planning council, since march 19, there have been antiasian00 cases of discrimination related to covid19. Resolution, at the pandemics earliest stage in this country, between february 9 400march 7, there were over such incidents. These include the stabbings of asian mother father and father and two Young Children in texas. 6 and entities including the World Health Organization and the and rs for Disease Control prevention have recognized that geographic virus by terms stigma tazs certain stigmatizes certain communities. Health and Human Services alex azar rightly phrase d the use of the chinese virus in testimony before the ways and means quote, e stating that, ethnicity is not what causes the Novel Coronavirus, closed quote. Incumbent that all public figures, including elected officials like us, to publicly bigotry and the stigmat stigmatizaiton. Stigmatization. Ociety can be especially vulnerable to racist appeals. End this, sought to some appear not to share the moral duty. F bully han using their pulpits, they have used prejudiceal d phrases and remarks in the face national kriers. A tactic thats crisis. A tactic that has a long and country. Ory in our left uncheck, this type of in the left, led to the internment of japanese americans during the second war. In the year 2020, condemning scapegoating cial should not be hard for any member of this house to do. Leave thepast time to of yellhysteria behind. Must pass h. Res. 908 unanimously. I ask you to strongly support this resolution and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan thank you, madam speaker. We oppose this legislation. One everyone knows racism is wrong but thats not what this legislation is about. To the gentleman from georgia, three minutes, to speak this. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia is for three minutes. Mr. Collins thank you, madam speaker. I appreciate the Ranking Member for yielding to me. Clear. E theres no denying where the virus originated, chinese. Communist party has tried to cover up their role, their friends in the World Health Organization to do their bidding. Is that aid, how democrats are still refusing to the wledge chinas role in coronavirus pandemic . Just recently, a chinese virologist acknowledged the was released from a hinese lab in wuhan and are we just to pretend it doesnt exist or even a possibility . It seems the route the democrats take is to pretend the ommunist china didnt play a role and trying to blame it on the president. Adam speaker, all forms of racism is abhorrent, including antiasian sentiment. Talking what we were about today that would be better. Thats not what were talking about today. Tone, even from the chairman, is disgusting how we deal with this in words. Floor over the past year and a half denouncing both rms of hatred on sides. Lets be honest, thats not what this bill is really about. This ill is exactly what entire congress has been about the entire time. Ignoring the real issues plaguing americans just for the opportunity to criticize President Trump. Despite their overwhelming undermine the Trump Administration through the hoax and llusion impeachment, the democratic playbook has not changed at all. Now a little over six weeks from election. Now, democrats are leaning on the global kriebl to continue heir admonitions all at the expense for families and businesses for relief. Democrats have taken no issue on ignoring the coronavirus effect on the ground in favor of president. The their collective offense of President Trump calling the vir the china virus or the wuhan virus. Will forget the administration shutting down travel. Applauding the move, democrats and joe biden accuse the Trump Administration and resident trump of fanning the flames of hate, fear, and zeepo phobia when his actual actions getting it and kept it from spreading because it was coming from china. Years, last three democrats claimed that russia must have something on donald trump. From a tion is, frankly president ial election, what does the Chinese Communist party have on joe biden . Would also love for the American People to forget that many viruses are named for theyre originated. He spanish flu, ebola, german measles. Maybe because the democrats seem to be so bankrupt on this bill solutions, bills and maybe the next two weeks well measles and g on respiratory syndromes because time. Wasting the peoples if you want to go work on it, go outside the capitol, not on the house. F the the virus begins and ends with the Chinese Communist party and to acknowledge the problem they have and to let it go. Refusing to acknowledge that fact is wrong and failing to it in the house in the favor of political messaging bills like this is nothing more political attempt to take down this president. And with that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now to the o minutes gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline. The speaker pro tempore the entleman from rhode island is recognized. Mr. Cicilline i thank the gentleman for yielding. March, as er, last the covid19 pandemic first began to affect our daytoday we s, the f. B. I. Warned could soon see a rise in hate crimes committed against Asian Americans. This moment, President Trump could have tried to bring americans together. Chose. Not the path he instead, the president has point of order, a quorum is not present gasoline on the fire terms like kungflu and china virus. The white house has stoked into ournsions and fed nations worst xenophobic impulses. More than 2,100 hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. 10 asian three in americans said they have been subject to slurs or racist jokes ince the start of this pandemic. These slurs and jokes arent just words. They are actions designed to Asian Americans designed to feel less than equal and they have no place in this country. The reality of life in Donald Trumps america. This administration has tried to the clock on racial equality. This administration has and ned, belittles, ostracized nearly every minority community. Today, the house is saying no more. Stand by as this administration attacks innocent en, women, and children much asian dissent. I urge descent. I urge my colleagues to support this excellent resolution, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan thank you, madam speaker. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from the great state of florida, mr. Posey. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Posey thank you very much, madam speaker. I was hopeful this resolution would lead us to common ground. None of us here believes in discriminating against our fellow Asian American neighbors. On march 23, President Trump said, the Asian American community ought to be totally protected in light of the zone phobic attacks during the coronavirus xenophobic attacks during the coronavirus pandemic. Its very important we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States and all around the world, President Trump tweeted. They are amazing people antispreading of the virus is not their fault in any way, shape, or form, he said. They are working closely with us to get rid of it, the president added. E will prevail together. I have restaurantures in my district who suffered from bullies because of their heritage. I asked my staff to prepare a resolution to echo the president s sentiments. My staff reported to me that the resolution already existed. H. Res. 908. Ostensibly to protect Asian Americans. On april 7, i signed on to what i considered to be a good faith effort to protect Asian Americans. Im more than saddened to see this resolution and todays debate is being used for nothing more than to malign and vilify the president of the United States. Just as the president and Congressional Republicans have been called domestic enemies in the last couple of days. I hoped for more, but sadly this body has chosen to take the low road. This debate has deinvolved into finger pointing, namecalling, and scoring political points. Rather than reaching a High Water Mark for bringing us all together is further ripped apart the fabric of america. Im deeply disappointed and will not be a party to todays partisan exercise that is more about scoring political points than rebuilding america. We should be working together to help all americans recover to investigate covid19, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world. Trillions lost, and trillions more spent responding to covid. Lives and dreams have been shattered. We have a duty to all americans to find a cure to get to the bottom of just how this pandemic started and do what we can to prevent it from happening ever again in the future. I yield back. Thank u the speaker pro tempore thank you. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler i yield two minutes to the gentleman from illinois, mr. Krishnamoorthi. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ill joy is recognized. Mr. Krishnamoorthi madam speaker, today i rise in support of house res. 908, condemning all forms of antiasian sentiment related to covid19. Since this pandemic began, there have been thousands and thousands of reports of discrimination and xenophobic attacks against Asian Americans in the United States, including in my district, which has one of the highest conservations of Asian Americans in the country. As an Asian American myself, this is deeply personal and offensive to me. When people, including those in the white house, refer to covid19 as the chinese virus, or the kung flu, they encourage bigotry and discrimination against Asian Americans. To put it simply, promoting antiAsian American sentiment or antiasian sentiment as related to covid19 is unamerican. Which is why i am proud to cosponsor this resolution an encourage my colleagues to vote yes. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan thank you, madam speaker. Again we all know racism is wrong. This is not what its about. Its another effort on the democrats to attack the president. The third whereas in the resolution, the gentleman from just spoke about this, the third whereas in the Resolution Says, you perpetuate antiasian bias if you use the terms chinese virus or wuhan virus. Well, someone should have told the media this. Cnn called it the wuhan virus. Msnbc called it the chinese coronavirus. Abc cbs called it chinas coronavirus. Cnbc called it the china coronavirus. Someone should have told the media you couldnt use these terms. Frankly, someone have told the democrats a few months ago that a few months later the mob cancel culture would say this is a term you cant use because the Democrats Use it on their committee notice. January 29, 2020, committee notice, House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on asia pacific and nonproliferation, congressman barrett, the chairman says, in the subject line of the hearing for the following week. Subject, the wuhan coronavirus. Someone should have told the democrats you cant use that term. But in the new woke world you cant state the truth. As mr. Collins pointed out, did the virus start in china . Yes. Did it start in wuhan china . Yes. Did china lie to the United States about the severity and origins of this virus . Yes. Did china lie to the world about the virus . Yes, they did. Did the World Health Organization lie to the United States . Yes, they did. Did the World Health Organization lie to the rest of the world . The answer to every single one of those questions is yes, but you cant say that. Not in the world, not in the politically correct cancel you cant state the truth. You cant state that the Chinese Government launched a Disinformation Campaign to coverup its role in exacerbating the spread of covid19. You cant say the coverup included punishing doctors, limiting the access of journalists, common senseoring the internet, and withholding information from the entire international community. You cant say that. You cant say a Government Official publicly and falsely claimed that the United States army brought it to wuhan. The Chinese Governments failure to institute a full scale public response and underrecording of deaths propelled the virus on the course its been on. You cant say all that. You could a few months ago. You could a few months ago. You cant today. Thats the cancel culture world. Thats how the mob operates today. Used to be able to say as mr. Collins pointed ow, the wes nile virus, zika virus, spanish flu, not today. Not today. Theyll attack you if you dont say the way they want you to say it. And this is dangerous. You cant say china virus today. Tomorrow who knows what it will be . Like i said a few months ago, even the Democrat Committee chairman used the very term in their resolution they are saying you cant use today. Somehow its antiasian, antiasian bias. I think its more to do with the fact we are seven weeks before an election. This is one more way to go after the president. We should all remember this is dangerous. When you start saying certain things cant be said. If you dont say it the way we, the politically correct, cancel culture mob wants you to say it, you have to be quiet. Silence is the biggest threat to the First Amendment. Thats what we are seeing. They want to just say this is this is broader. This is bigger. I would say look at the sports world. Look at the sports world. Drew brees says, you should stand for the national anthem. He gets attacked. Mike gundy, football coach at oklahoma state, goes fishing with his kids and wears what the mob says is the wrong tshirt. He almost loses his job. He wore a tshirt that had a conservative news outlet on the tshirt. Oh, my good nevments you cant coach football if you wear the wrong tshirt fishing with your kids according to the mob. You cant say a term today that a few months ago they you used on their committee notice. You cant say today because thats what the mob says. James harden says back the blue in the mask. He has to answer for that. Last week two High School Football players on 9 11 run on the field with a back to blue flag and flag supporting our firefighters and they get suspended because today the mob says thats not ok. We need to understand the cancel culture restricting, limiting, telling you what you can and cant say is so darn dangerous and it will never stop because the mob never it never quits. You dont believe me . Two weeks ago, two weeks ago the mayor of this city, our nations capital, has a proposal to remove and relocate the Washington Monument and jefferson memorial. This is how ridiculous, this is how ridiculous it gets. Maybe ill just finish with this. Maybe the most ridiculous thing is the last clause, the last page of their resolution. The last page says, recommit United States leadership in building more inclusive, diverse, and tolerant societies to combat misinformation. Think about this for a second. If you state the truth, the virus started in china, you are a bad guy. You are not allowed to state the truth. This Resolution Says thats misinformation. The very misinformation that happened was china misinforming the world, lying to the world. You are not allowed to talk about that. You have 20 do this Resolution Says you have to do it the politically correct, woke way, cancel culture way. Thats why this is so darn wrong. So darn wrong. I hope we dont continue to travel down this road. This is scary where the left wants to take the country. So dangerous for the First Amendment and free speech rights. Madam chair, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Kim. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Kim i thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam speaker, i rise today in strong support of this resolution. And in strong opposition to the rise of hate crimes and acts of racism towards americans of asian descent. All know these are divisive times, tough times. Hateful language, acts of violence are not the way for us to get through these tough times. This resolution allows congress to come together to speak with one voice. That hate targeted at the Asian American community has no place in this country and must be condemned. Im especially proud to speak here today with so many of my colleagues, many of us have been victims these hateful and harmful actions. We have seen firsthand the vitriol of racism. We have felt the sting of the distrustful look or a harsh word. I hope you will join me today in acknowledging the impact of racism and force fully renouncing t i hope you will join me here today in calling on unity and calling out division. And i hope you will join me here today in passing a resolution that can remind us that even in the darkest times we are strongest when we reject hate and embrace americas diversity. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio. Mr. Jordan yield to the gentleman, the chair of the caucus, the gentleman from arizona. Three minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from arizona is recognized. I thank the gentleman. Madam speaker, i join in condemning Racial Discrimination of all kinds. It should never be tolerated. I wish we had the Perfect Society and everybody recognized everybody in a colorblind way. But what this bill does today is it doesnt address that. When i heard the chairman of the Judiciary Committee just refer to calling the virus that originated in china, the wuhan prefecture, when i heard him say that this is somehow equivalent to the chinese immigration exclusion act, or somehow equivalent to the japanese internment camp experience that we had where over 100,000 japanese were removed from their homes and taken to camps. Mr. Biggs this really is the woke culture on steroids. This is going if this would have been a condemnation of antiasian discrimination, i probably would have been right there signing this. I lived in northeast asia for two years. I speak japanese. Ive traveled extensively in asia. This, this bill doesnt address that. What it does is says, you know what, we want to do something when we are about six weeks out from an election. Thats what this bills about. You cant tell the truth here. Lets just recite some of the things that we know. The west nile virus, thats because that virus emerged from the west nile district of northern uganda, 1930. The st. Louis encephalitis virus broke out around st. Louis, movement, 1933. The japanese encephalitis virus roke out in japan in 1870. Marchberg, germany, all have iruses named after them. You will always have the norant who act out on racial an must animus, we condemn that. But lets tell the truth. The middle east respiratory syndrome virus in 2012, we call that the . This learned that not only did this virus originated in china have been manufactured and released intention a. O. L. Intentionally by the Chinese Communist party. So when the media refers to this the china n virus or virus, and other officials, ncluding folks from this party over here, its not because they have an existing racist but its rather to describe its origination, as has done historically. This resolution today is even ore than a measure to appease leftists. Ntolerant of its an attack on President Trump and all who support trump. Nt its a crying shame that you cant take the actual issue that want to address and address it. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Biggs you have to expand it purposes. Or political i urge my colleagues to vote no. I yield back. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentleman from california, y from ms. Lee. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from oakland is recognized. Lee thank you very much. Thank you, chairman nadler, for your tremendous leadership. Also want to acknowledge representative meng for spear heading this important resolution. Rise in strong support of h. Res. 908 to condemn ll forms of antiasian hate speech related to covid19. Is leading toemic n alarming hateful speech to asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. S an africanamerican, i know what hate and racism is, and i know the violence that results. Are, since march, there have been over 2,500 antiasian ses of discrimination related to covid19, including over 1,100 of s in my home state california. At the same time, by no accident the white house continues to refer to covid19 and kungflu,irus trying to shift attention and lame away from this administrations inadequate response at poor leadership. Scapegoat Asian Americans, exacerbating hate and violence. Congress needs to send a clear message we will stand with our a. P. I. Community, especially during these challenging times racism bigotry and within our country. Hate speech does lead to violence and discrimination. Truth. The chair. Ou, madam madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the ohio. Man from the gentleman reserves. York. Ntleman from new mr. Nadler i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman takano. Ifornia, mr. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized. Takano thank you, madam speaker. To condemn the xenophobic, antiasian rhetoric that President Trump and his allies have been using to their woefully inadequate response to covid19. By referring to covid19 almost the china virus, the president is fueling racism inspiring Violent Attacks on Asian Americans and asian immigrants. Than condemning this divisive language and unifying in response to the pandemic, my republican following are blindly suit. This partisanship is so congresswoman mengs simple resolution, condemning this antiasian not be passed d chamber. Ly out of this this is a disgrace. A disgrace. I will not yield. The covid19 pandemic has become a defining moment in our nations history. Instead of unifying to confront headon, se republicans have instead weaponized this. The peaker pro tempore gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Takano madam speaker, i urge passage of this resolution. The speaker pro tempore members reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. The gentleman from ohio. Mr. Jordan madam speaker, was months ago e a few when the democrat chairman called it the wuhan coronavirus disgrace now a when were less than seven weeks before an election . To guys want to continue attack the president. Which is it . It cant be a disgrace just now hen you used the exact same language that the democrat chairman, the democrat staff subCommittee Hearing. So you can get all fired up and start yelling at us, but the you guys used it the same terms youre now saying, in this resolution. The hypocrisy from the left and what you can say today and cant say tomorrow is ridiculous. It. The American People see they see it. They know this is complete b. S. They know it is completely about the election, which is seven weeks away. I would yield three minutes to he gentleman from texas, mr. Arrington. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Arrington thank you, madam speaker. Thank the gentleman, my dear friend from ohio, for the opportunity to speak. Colleagues g to my and my the recent speaker. Where is hat passion, that indignation over the that are bs terrorizing our communities, that are assaulting our law officers . T people are being killed in cold Great American citizens and neither a word is Great Chamber about whats happening to our fellow rights are being trampled. Instead, they want to yperventilate over this pettiness. We know what its about, and the American People know what its speaker. Dam they know good and well this is about scoring political points. Over and hey seen it over theyve seen it over and over, day in and day out, for under this years, pelosi leadership of this great body. Entative obstruction, more political dividing us. Just country. Ividing our opportunism that ive never seen before, that you ant refer to a virus from its place of origin . Eve been doing this time in memorial. Now we cant call that a chinese virus . This is about dividing the country. Flames about stoking the of racial dissension. Its unamerican. Its unacceptable for our eaders to do whats happening today, and i trust the American People. Theyre watching this. Is the stark contrast in leadership weve been talking about. Do you want more of this, america . Want more of resolutions to condemn calling the virus the wuhan virus, or do you want to condemn whats happening in portland, in seattle, and the crime and the mass Exodus Police officers who feel they jeopardized their livelihoods and their lives . Disrespected them. We weve demonized them. In this we doing chamber . God save the union. Od have mercy that we cant come together, solve a few problems. Dont know, like the unprecedented crisis were facing to get our american citizensd families and back on their feet. To hold china accountable for what theyve done. To e are real problems solve. And i want to work with my colleagues. We condemn racism. They know we dont we dont making light of something so serious. Seizing on this moment. L, opportunistic its the wrong time. They are on the wrong side of history here, madam speaker. Ultimate judge of what happens today in this chamber and whats happened over the years will be in the hands of we the people. Faith. My thats my confidence. Time, to my the dear friend. Thank you, madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. I nowdler madam speaker, yield one minute to the from michigan the gentleman from hawaii, representative case. The speaker pro tempore the is leman from hawaii recognized. Mr. Case thank you, madam speaker. And back to the subject of the which ion on the floor, is discrimination against any nd all americans on the basis of race. As the proud representative of the state and district with the of asian rcentage americans in this country, i rise today in strong support of condemn any and all forms of antiasian discrimination during and beyond this terrible pandemic. Our country confronts not only also ael coronavirus but virus of racism and hate. E cannot allow the one to feed off the other. On behalf of all americans, we have a moral responsibility to and condemn this wave of racist hate speech, and sment, discrimination, physical violence driven by fear, disinformation, and even exploitation. I urge my colleagues on both ides of the aisle to support this resolution without reservation and speak out any groupcism against in any format any time. Back. You and i yield the speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan we reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now to one inute minute and 30 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from new malinowski. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. Malinowski madam speaker, 9 11, president bush never once called terrorism a muslim arab virus or a saudi virus. Was notclear that enemy the place where the terrorists came from or the people who live there. But terrorism itself. He did that because it was right nd because he knew that equating the evil of al qaeda with an entire faith or ationality or country was exactly what our enemies wanted. So today, when prominent people country, whether theyre republicans or democrats or media encourage americans to call covid the china virus, language that seems this pandemic on a country and a people, they are wrong, y doing something something that has already encouraged violence and iscrimination against Asian Americans, they are playing right into the hands of a that e communist party wants Asian Americans to feel america. And unsafe in now, if you want to blame this sign Chinese Government, me up. If you want to blame them or anybody else for lying to the people, sign me up. But if youre going to give this nationality, youre doing something wrong. If you dont see the difference things, then two you dont understand whats going on in this country, in of division, in this moment of danger we face. So madam speaker, i am proud to resolution, condemning antiasian rhetoric in any form. Colleagues to vote for it. I urge my the speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Malinowski thank you and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Reserve. N well the speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now minute to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Cisneros. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized. You, madam thank speaker. I rise today in support of this resolution, condemning all forms sentiment related to covid19. The 39th ommunity in district has been an integral part of fighting the coronavirus. Responders, essential workers, educators and Small Business owners. Et, theres been too many stories in my district and across the country of racism, verbal assault towards Asian Americans. I had an opportunity to hear of these stories during my own hall including one constituent. This young woman was unable to pick up her mothers rescription drugs due to racist, aggressive remarks she received that were directed towards her. Tears. T running away in this resolution will earn cases like hers are investigated and deserve the attention. I thank representative meng for her leadership and i ask my colleagues to support this resolution to ensure protection, safety, respect for our Aapi Community. With that i yield back. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the is leman from ohio recognized. Mr. Jordan reserve, madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reefshs is reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now ield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from texas, representative green. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized. Madam en thank you, speaker. I thank the gentleman for time. Ng the adam speaker, on this constitution day, we will do dr. To heed the words of king when he reminded us that measure of the person is not where the person comfort and es of convenience but where do you tand in times of challenge and controversy. Where do you stand when racism antisemitism and antiasian sentiments are emanating from highest office in the land . Stand . O you i stand with the Business Owner whos losing business and some have gone out of business of this kind of hateful violence emanating from words. I stand with the mother who has to console her child who comes home from school who who has been bullied. I stand with the child who has been bullied who comes home crying. I stand with the people of my Congressional District and across this land who happen to be of asian ancestry. I stand against racism and its easy to say im against racism. I condemn racism. But when will you condemn the racists . When will you come democrat the racist when its emanating from the highest office in the land . This is constitution day. I close with these words from emily dickinson, the truest measure of the person i have reminded you, but dickinson reminded us, that a word is dead when it is said. Some say, but i say it just begins to live that day. These words live. They take on meanings. They impact people. And they cause harms. Its time for us to take a stand. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan reserve, madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, the import of this resolution could not be more clear. Antiasian sentiment will not be tolerated. Antisemitism will not be tolerated. Antidiscrimination against anyone will not be tolerated. And when language comes consistently from the white house, from other places that stokes antiasian sentiment, that stokes racism this cannot be tolerated and this house must declare that we will not tolerate it. This house must be on record against the use of language designed to stoke racism. Against the use of such racism, such opposition from the white house. None. It is unconscionable that we have to stand here and oppose the white house stoking antiasian sentiment. It is unconscionable that the white house would do such a thing. But if it does such a thing, then it is incumbent on this house to denounce it. It is incumbent on this house to make sure that the American People know that we do not stand with anyone whether in the white house or any place else who stokes deliberately antiasian sentiment. We cannot abide, we must not abide the use of public office, the use of public facilities, the use of the public microphone to stoke antiasian sentiment. No more than we would tolerate it if we were stoking antiblack sentiment or anti semitic sent. None of this is tolerable. We must not permit this. So i say again it cannot be allowed that on the floor of this house we do not denounce the use of Public Resources, the use of the white house, the use of Public Resources to toke antiasian sentiment. A does the gentleman yield for question . Mr. Jordan was the Washington Post on january 26, 2020, stoking antiasian bias when they used the term coronavirus . Was the New York Times on february 20, 2020, stoking antiasian bias when they used the term wuhan coronavirus in their headline . Mr. Nadler reclaiming my time. They learned their lesson. They stopped using such terms. Mr. Jordan there you go. Mr. Nadler they understood what this house should understand. They understood that the use of such terms stokes racism, stokes antiasian sentiment. And they i will not yield. And they stopped using the term because they learned the lesson. All we are saying is, the white house should learn the same lesson. They should stop using the term. For that matter, members of this house should stop using the term because it deliberately stokes antiasian sentiment. The Washington Post learned that lesson and ceased using such terms. The New York Times the Washington Times its my time. The New York TimesWashington Post learned the lesson. We are not saying that everyone knew this initially, but it is clear, it is now clear and the Washington Post learned its lesson and stopped using such terms. The New York Times learned its lesson when they realized that it was stoking antiasian sentiment and stopped using this term. We are saying that the white house and members of this house and anyone else should learn the same lesson and not stoke antiasian sentiment by continuing the use of terms that we know stoke antiasian sentiment. I now recognize the gentleman from california, mr. Bera, for three minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Bera thank you, madam speaker. I rise today in support of h. Res. 908, led by my colleague representative grace meng. Do i feel compelled to respond to my colleague on the other side of the aisle, mr. Jordan. I was that subcommittee chairman. We held the first coronavirus hearing in this new pandemic addressing the issues. Yeah, we did identify it by its geographical origin as the wuhan coronavirus. We also learned as soon as we started to see instances of racism, of violence against Asian Americans, that was a mistake. We stopped using that term. Thats what we do as adults. We are not here to instigate racism. We are not here to i. N. S. Tate violence against any ethnic group. What we are here to do is defeat this pandemic. In that hearing, what we talked about is, its fine doing a travel ban from a country. That would buy us time. We also rightfully identified that that travel ban wasnt going to prevent the virus from coming to the United States. It wasnt going to protect us. We had to get ready. We squandered that time. Look, this is a virus. It doesnt understand a contry of origin. It doesnt know whether you are a democrat or republican. What religion or god you worship. It is a virus. And it is shameful for members of this body, for anyone, to continue to use language that potentially incites violence against any of our fell citizens. Thats what this resolution is about. Lets learn from that. Dont call it by its geographical origin. It now has a name. At that time it didnt have a name. Its called sars cov2. Or covid19. We ought to call it by its name. We should not willfully or intentionally use language that potentially insights violence against any of our fellow citizens. That incites racism. We should be better than that. And lets show the American Public that we can actually learn and lets lead by example. Thats what we should be doing in the house of representatives. With that, again, we shouldnt we called it by its area of origin because the virus didnt have a name. We learned from that. We dont do that. And shouldnt intentionally use terminology that would incite violence against ethnic group, religious group, or fellow citizens. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan madam speaker, what we should also do is denounce violence, all the violence we see our urban areas. And the democrats were given an opportunity just two months ago when the attorney general of the United States asked them, why wont you speak out against the violence in our cities . Why wont you speak out against what the mob is doing in our cities . Guess what we got from them, dr. Bera, we got silence. So lets speak out against the violence we see for over 100 days in portland and all so many of of our other great sissies w that i yield to the cities. With that i yield to the minority leader, the gentleman and leader of our great conference the speaker pro tempore does the gentleman yield one minute . The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yielding. The gentleman makes a very good point. Two here condemning sheriffs that got shot while sitting in their car, from california . No. Are we here the innocent lives being killed night after night, chicago or other cities . No. Are we here in the last hours before this body rushes to the airport to leave to debate the help that we need for covid, for those who are unemployed . Or the Small Businesses that are going to continue to lay somebody off . Or whether they can survive the next day . Or whether the schools will have the resources they need or the states. No, we are not doing that. We are not doing any of that. But ill make this one promise to you. If the majority was on the other side, we would have already done that. Madam speaker, democrats are neglecting the real issues. Month after month they have refused to end our independence on china, or even acknowledge that the Chinese Communist party is a National Security threat. I have read it in the paper. We have heard it out in the Public Domain that the communist Chinese Party wants to influence the election, even. They picked a side. Now in january democrats were too busy impeaching the president to Pay Attention to what was happening in wuhan. There is a common denominator here. Go through the calendar. In january, too busy with impeaching. In february they backed out of what should have been a bipartisan china task force. They actually said, yes. The Washington Post actually had the article written. The members were already chosen. The hour came the democrats thought that was wrong. Move to may. Speaker pelosi said, focusing on china is a diversion. I look forward to hearing what the speaker says about this resolution. Is that a diversion from solving the covid relief we need . In june, the chairman smith of Armed Services said on this very floor just over at that mic he said this about china. Its not actually their job to tell the American People about the coronavirus. Seriously . Those were the words that were spoken by the chair of the Armed Services. In july, chairman schiff, remember who he is and what role he has, he is the chairman of the intel committee, he said it was an escalation for the Trump Administration to close down a chinese consulate that was, according to the secretary of state, the hub of spying and i. P. Theft in houston. He was the only one who thought that. And now today while democrats deny the real threat of communist china, they are delaying a Coronavirus Relief package because they despise the president. I heard a member here, madam speaker, said we are adults so we think differently. You know what adults do . They give adult supervision, and they focus on things that are important. We only have a few hours left before people leave. I know, told us before august we will not leave unless we get a covid relief package. Im not sure if i should believe her then or believe her now. I know people are going to leave in a few short hours. I know as the majority you have the power to schedule what comes to the floor. That was one of my jobs. So this is what they picked . This is what we are doing, seriously . My question to the democrats is simple. Is debating a nonbinding resolution the best use of our hour . Apparently you have made that decision. You thought long and hard, long before we came to this moment in time. You spent hours on this. I will promise you this. There is no kitchen in america that thinks this is the priority. What makes todays resolution so harmful is it does not stop discrimination. It simply spreads disinformation. At the heart of this resolution is a served notion that referring to the virus as a wuhan virus or the china virus is the same as contributing to violence against Asian Americans. Which i will tell you nobody on this side of the aisle supports. In fact, we have heard time and again, i just heard from my colleague on the other side, the democratled Foreign AffairsCommittee Held a hearing titled, the wuhan coronavirus, in february. Should we put an ethics complaint . Or democrats saying their own Committee Members are encouraging discrimination. Gainst Asian Americans likewise, cnn, the Washington Post, n. P. R. , the guardian all other major Media Outlets were referring to covid19 as the wuhan coronavirus. Long before most americans knew what it was. Put this lets put this into contrast. This moment in time it. His floor talking about republicans condemn crime and discrimination in all forms. The president said in march. Not the the virus is fault of any one, shape, or but i guess you cant take his word for it. O lets waste another hour on this floor on a nonbinding resolution. I wonder. Ker, because every member that comes hard to get here. I wonder the number of times members in a debate said they time to have ir nonbinding resolutions on the floor. The number of promises they made. Because i listened, madam to the speaker up there when i handed her the gavel on they said they would focus on. To ent a lot of time trying wonder what one problem this solved. Majority has ive actually asked democrats. Solved. One that you i havent read a tweet from probably the most prominent of new partys chief of staff. Had the same question. They couldnt answer it. The president s words express decent ry good and american has known from the beginning. Sian americans are not responsible for covid19. Very clear. Let me state that again. The president s words express decent ry good and american has known from the beginning. Not americans are responsible for covid19. Let me tell you what Everything Else every american understands. Economic problem. We have people unemployed. E have Small Businesses questioning whether they can stay open. E have schools that are wondering do they have the money to open again. This u chose an hour of time on the last day before we nonbinding ate a resolution. Congratulations. Well done. You fought hard for a majority, decided. Is what you unfortunately, while democrats waste an hour of the house time ridiculous resolution, of the rtunity costs inaction is rising. You know who is paying the price. People. Ican for months, every reasonable american has understood that must end our dependency on china. We must move our supply chain critical needs, like medicine. Make realize we dont vitamins we dont make here. Personal protective equipment that we strive so hard to get and technology. American people want safety and security. To the t a return american way of life. Im not sure what this resolution does but i know weve done a lot of them majority. Ve taken the unfortunately, the Chinese Communist party is trying to hack our Vaccine Research at very moment. That is why i introduced this summer arlier to sanction these cyber criminals. Real consequences. You know whats so unique . I introduced the bill because reports out there that russia, china, iran wanted hack our universities, our vaccine. S to get that not to work with us but to steal you know what happens that . Hey do it slows the process down. You know what happens when it down . The process t takes longer before people virus. Cured from this the day before we introduced it, the f. B. I. Found two chinese that were doing this. Our country, slowing the process down, and we had the a motion to o have recommit on this floor. Nobody in america thought that would be partisan. It would only sanction those were caught, about ight and wrong, about the safety, the security, a safe and slowed e vaccine being down because of a foreign country coming in. So, one, we had an opportunity about it. Thing you know what happened . The democrats voted against it and defeated it. Not only did they defeat it, let again, what the chairman of the Armed Services said about it. Microphone. At that he literally said, its not actually their job to tell the the virus. Ople about referring to china. Hile theyre hacking our own companies. To provide a safe and effective vaccine. You wouldnt spend one minute on hat, but youre spending an hour on this. Adly, this is not an isolated incident. Madam speaker, the majority republicansork with to protect our Vaccine Research from hackers. And theyll attack the very working that are around the clock to provide that safe and effective vaccine for the American People. Wont work with republicans to restore american rebuild the , to american medical supply right here. But theyll call the house back to debate n conspiracy theories about a post office. Here in that ere emergency meeting and madam should probably talk about it because there were a lot of democrats that didnt come. An emergency was meeting called by the speaker. Of ink it was 1 3 of all them that did not come. Here, that onere moment, the one opportunity that he republicans had, we offered a motion, a motion to recommit funding for covid relief. Once again, the democrats did same thing. Instead of stopping the hackers from china, what they said no instead of getting another covid relief bill, that opportunity because we were emergency. It was the only time we were coming back even though, madam speaker, the speaker said we not leave, they voted it down. They voted it down. That we had. Ow they wont even work with on what was supposed to be a bipartisan china task force. Wasted an hour on a resolution. Is this how you expect to manage the chamber . You took the majority, to waste the American Peoples time . Its time for us house acting like the resolutions and start acting like the house of representatives. Make no mistake. To displace america t the World Economic superpower. T we will have more than viruses to worry about. He stakes are too high for partisan pettiship. If we want independence, we know what we have to do. Rebuild our economy, bring back our supply chain, protect our Vaccine Research end our dependency on china. Our president is doing that. House republicans have made a commitment to america to do just that. Weve done it time and again of floor. G the idea to the unfortunately, the majority has otherwise. Madam speaker, i make this you. Se to if we have change, the opportunity and the to determine what comes to this floor, we will not time americas time in a of crisis. We will not tell people they will not leave and then let them go. We will not have members called meeting and let them stay home. We believe congress is essential. Believe the American Public expects that. Madam speaker, we have a covid crisis. We have an economy crisis. Dependency on china that harms us when it comes to our health issues. Hackers from foreign ations trying to slow a safe and effective vaccine. Kids that ool continue to learn from home, not in school. We have veterans who want to be able to pick their own doctors. That e an infrastructure is crumbling with a fiveyear difference. A these are all the problems that if the majority would switch addressed. But no, today, on our last day week, we will once again resolution. Nding i hope you fought hard for this majority. I hope you spend a lot of time a lot of hours deciding what would come to the floor. What it is, you have fallen well short of what america expects of this chamber. Yield back. Membersker pro tempore are reminded to direct their comments to the chair. He gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the istinguished speaker of the house. The speaker pro tempore the distinguished speaker of the house is recognized. California. Man from the speaker thank you very much, madam speaker. I thank the gentleman for the but i also thank mr. Nadler as chairman of the bringing committee for this important statement of our American Values to the floor of house. I thank him and our colleagues rom the senate, senator kamala harris, tammy duckworth, and hirono, three Asian Americans of the United States senate, who were so instrumental advancing this important, as i said, statement of American Values. Good use of is a time for us in the house of state our ives to values, to remove all doubt that country are espected and that we are not using a pandemic to have go into that in a moment, but let me just say this. Efore the distinguished leader spoke, the gentleman on the other side said, where are you when you are talking about or that . This were there. E support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. Hey are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, fires, or rioting. Those are they should be prosecuted. Is lawlessness. That joe biden has made the presented the clarity of that. Distinction that i dont think our colleagues quite but the American People do. In a poll released today said American People support ongressional democrats over President Trump in terms of ealing with the issue of crime n our country for all of their misrepresentations. Its interesting to hear the revisionist history that the distinguished leader put on the of this house when he have we done, and its a very long list, and ill go into some of it. I will say to him, when you had the majority and the presidency, you did was that pass a tax bill that took put of debt onto our hildren and giving 83 of the benefits to the top 1 in our yet you resent the fact we want to invest more our in making it safe for children to go back to school, more money into crushing the what we do in the heroes act, that we want to heroes. Thats why its called that. Our state and local employees, and local governments which provides services to the American People, our health care our first responders, our police and fire, our ransportation, sanitation workers, our food providers. All of those people working make for us. On without them, we couldnt. Teachers, our teachers, our teachers. The custodians for our children part of their day and of their lives. That the he disdain republicans have for our for because that clear is the obstacle to our bringing he coronavirus legislation to the floor that is so needed, but Reach Agreement on that. So when they talk about a omplishment, you had president. You had two houses of government. What did you do but take care of top 1 to the tune of 83 of would put 2 trillion of debt onto our future. And their in terms of china, i take second this body in e in china. Osition to for three decades. Sometimes i take pride being called the most disliked in china for my opposition to china, their trade which have been a ripoff of the American Worker and have fought them for whether its stealing our intellectual property, barriers to our products going china, and other violations. Trying to stop their proliferation of Weapons Technology of mass destruction to rogue countries and Delivery Systems to make delivery possible of those weapons. To their human rights policies in tibet and hong kong, and now with the uighurs, and again all over china. I have been on it every single day for over 30 years. I need no pontificating from the leader on the other side who seems to have newly arrived at this issue in order to block attention from the fact that the russians are trying to once again infiltrate and jeopardize the security of our elections. Whoever interferes with our elections must be dealt with. Whatever country it is. But all of a sudden its all about china and not about russia. I think the American People should decide who the next president of the United States is. Not putin. And so we come here today and i say this about the legislation because we had four bills that have been overwhelmingly bipartisan on covid. Our first one in march, march 4, was testing, testing, testing. And still we do not have a commitment from this administration that we can catch the virus by testing, tracing, treatment, mask wearing, sanitation, ventilation, separation. Still the solution is as plain as the nose on your face that should be covered with a mask. And yet, and yet the president said he didnt want to cause panic. He doesnt mind causing panic that will result in some terrible things happening to the Asian American community and our country. Its brought about great angst as the legislation shines a right light on the injustice experienced by so many, including the surge of violence and discrimination being experienced by Asian American and Pacific Islander community. I thank the congressional Asian Pacific american caucus chair, judy chu, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair, joaquin castro, Congressional Black Caucus chair karen bass for their leadership. For this important resolution, this important resolution. This very necessary use of our me to condemn and combat antiasian sentiment. Grace meng has led this drumbeat for justice for a generation. Together with the other leaders, she has brought this legislation to the floor and i salute her. As the resolution states, and we have all seen, at the same time that the coronavirus pandemic has broken out, so, too, has a disturbing epidemic of hate and discrimination against the Aapi Community, and that has erupted. You may not have noticed it. You may have tried to ignore it. But in fact exists. According to the stop aapi hate reporting center, more than 2,500 recorded incidents of antiasian hate have been perpetrated against aapi communities since march. These include both physical and verbal attacks, commuters spat on, racial slurs, Community Members shunned store owners having businesses vandalized, and even little children, little children being pushed and shoved. Families insulted in places of many of these incidents represent civil rights violations. And that is a value for us to protect. It is particularly unconscionable that more than two million members of the Aapi Community are fighting on the frontlines against the covid19 virus. Yet instead of being celebrated as heroes, they are fighting violence and bigotry. In february, one of my visits to san franciscos chinatown, which im overwhelmingly proud to represent, i was heartbroken to witness the devastating impact that fear, stigma, and misinformation continue to have on families and businesses. Nearly half of recorded incidentses of antiasian hate, according to the stop aapi hate reporting center, have occurred in california. For many of the bay area who remember the systemic injustices and discriminations perpetrated against generations of Asian Americans, this resurgence is a traumatic reminder of the lingering specter of xenophobia. Sadly this bigotry is being fueled by some in washington, and you would think i thought this would be almost unanimous consent to condemn violence against Asian Americans. Even from the white house itself, which uses dangerous, false, and offensive terms to describe the coronavirus. The World Health Organization and the c. D. C. , the center for Disease Control, have explicitly warned against linking Infectious Diseases to specific ethnicity because of the stigmi advertises sigma advertising effects which has serious impacts on health and defeating the virus. As the c. D. C. Medical officer has said, stigma is the enemy of Public Health. Antiaapi bigotry violates our bedrock American Values and undermines our fight against the coronavirus. And it must end. And thats why we must do our part to combat hate. That is why im proud to support this resolution. Proud to bring it to the floor as an appropriate and excellent statement of values and good use of our time. Instead of giving tax breaks to the wealthiest people in our country at the expense of our children and their future. I call on Public Officials to condemn and denounce any and all antiasian sentiment in any form. Recognizes that the health and safety of all americans, no matter their background, must be of the utmost priority. We are none of us safe until all of us are safe. Condemns all manifestation and expressions of racism, xenophobia, discrimination, antiasian sentiment, scapegoating, and ethnic or religious intolerance and calls on the federal Law Enforcement officials working with state and local officials to investigate and collect data on hate crimes and bring purpose traitors to justice t recommits our leaders to diversity and inclusion including in our response to covid19. This resolution has the support of hundreds of organizations, including from the medical and scientific communities. I know science doesnt mean much to you, because you are antiscience, but the scientific communities, the American College of physicians recently wrote a letter of support for this resolution stating that, and i quote, an essential step to support the health and safety of our nation in a National Crisis. Hate crimes directly against individuals based on individuals race, ethnic origin, ancestry, primary language, nationality, are true Public Health threat. It goes on to say, it is an imperative that physicians and all people speak out against hate and discrimination, especially during this National Crisis by covid19. At this challenging time, our nations focus should be on respecting the dignity of everyone. That should always be the case. We cannot allow prejudice and discrimination to divide us. Let me just close by adding this. We had a tremendous opportunity, as i said we passed four bills, four bills that were overwhelmingly bipartisan. The cares act has done some good things for our country. It also gave enormous practically 150 billion tax break to the wealthiest in our country, and made it retroactive. What did that have to do with the coronavirus . Making a tax break for the wealthy retroactive. It just it cant pass a bill without doing something at the high end and then roaring about when we want to help working class families in our country. Our counttory that bill was called the take responsibility bill. The take responsibility bill act. Those two bills came together, we were able to find our common ground, even though we had to swallow some bitter pills in order to help americas working families as well as Small Businesses in our country. And why does it have to be so hard . Because there is an antiscience attitude in this congress and in this administration. There is an antigovernance. There is contempt of science. There is disdain for state and local government which does so much for our country. Dont take it from me. The chairman of the fed is saying that recognize that state and local government are an important part of our economy. Dont take it from me that we cannot open our economy unless we crush this virus. And that is exactly what the chairman of the fed said yesterday. It is essential to do this. But it takes money. And it takes respect for science. And respect for the advice of scientific leaders in our country. That has been absent. Instead, they play a blame game and who pays the price . The Asian American community in our country. Thats why it was essential for us to follow grace mengs lead and that of the hispanic, Asian Pacific, and black caucus leadership today. I thank again the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for his leadership in bringing this important legislation to the floor. One of many. We have many bills that we will we have taken up and we will take up next week as we try to Work Together to find our common ground. One thing that we are working on right now is to keep government opened. Because while they may have an antigovernance attitude, we know that that is something that we have to make our compromises to keep government opened. Madam speaker, i thank you for the opportunity to use my congressional oneminute, speakers oneminute to salute the leadership, thank the sponsors of this legislation. You bring lufter to the house of representatives lustre to the house of representatives when you enable us to associate ourselves with the great values of our country to respect the dignity and worth of everyone in our country. Never more important than in this time of great crisis in our country. Thank you. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore i want to remind all members to direct comments to the speaker. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Jordan thank you, mr. Speaker. The speaker of the house said the russians are trying to jeopardize the security of our election. So are the democrats. Democrats are trying to win the election after the election. Democrats in pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit that says you can fix errors on absentee ballots after the ballot has been returned to the board of elections. I dont even know what that means. You vote in a race you didnt vote in . What does that mean . You can fix errors after you already submitted the ballot. In Nevada Democrats passed a law that says you can accept mailin ballots three days after the election, even if the postmark on the ballot, on the envelope cant be distinguished. The postmark date. They are trying to win the election after the election. The speaker said the white house, the white house is using dangerous and offensive language. The premises of the premise of the resolution, the premise of the resolution in front of us is language can cause people to take action. If you use the term china virus, wuhan vie rass, that will lead to bias against asian American People. Even though they use the termed china virus, wuhan virus, they used it in a Committee Hearing notice, even though thats there, they say if you use those terms it will lead to antiasian bias. They dont talk about, they dont talk about the language they use. The left uses. The language the speaker uses and how that may create an environment that will lead to violence. The speaker of the house called the president of the United States an enemy of the state and said, his supporters in the congress, republicans, are enemies of the state. They dont talk about that. China virus can lead people to take action. But, no, not when the speaker of the house calls the president of the United States and republican members of congress enemies of the state. Two years ago, two years ago democrat member of congress, chair of a committee, said this, two years ago this summer, do you see somebody in the trump cabinet, you create a crowd, you push back on them, you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere. She encouraged her constituents to approach people in the Trump Administration, harass them, tell them they are not welcomed anymore, anywhere. She encouraged direct action. That is far different than using the term china virus. Which they used which they had in the committee notice. This individual member, said go harass people in the trump cabinet. The speaker of the house calls republicans enemies of the state. And thats all fine by them. But, oh, you say the virus started in wuhan, china, oh, somehow you are terrible. This is the crazy world the left is in today. The crazy world they are in today. Again as i said earlier by the gentleman from texas and by others, i think the American People see right through this baloney. See right through it. Hope we get our senses and start as the minority leader said, as the republican leader hope we would actually start spending more of our time of more value to the American People. Time. Rve our the speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i now two minutes to the gentlelady from texas, ms. Jackson lee. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas is recognized. S. Jackson lee i thank our distinguished chairman of the jewish and i thank and a udiciary committee and i thank and applaud our speaker for championing the rights of all americans. Unwarranted, unwanted inegations of hysterectomies immigrant women around the nation in detention centers, to of the United States taking to the bully call to be able to covid19 and the coronavirus the we are finding ourselves in the midst of confusion that is hurting the people. Hurting them in two ways. Covid19 six million infections in the United States. Upwards predictions of of 250,000 dead. Of them, we as Members Congress ted states should mourn. Because families, families, to bury familyng members having not seen them in days. Last what good is it to use that word, the wuhan virus . The scientific term. And out of that we have created hostile situation for our Asian American friends. For Asian Americans who have frontlines of fighting on behalf of this nation. The use of antiasian rhetoric related to covid19, such as the chinese kungflu, n virus, have perpetrated antiasian reminiscent of dark and shameful chapters in asian s past where mericans escaped as the yellow parrot and interned in relocation camps. Adam speaker, more than 2,300 23 million pacific account over two million asians, Pacific Islanders are, are working on this covid19 of pandemic in health care, Law Enforcement, first responders, supermarkets, and other service industries. They feel threatened, for march, 2020, antiasian woman wearing a mask at a new and punched york city subway station. Individuals. Two children, two adults were stabbed at a wholesale grocery store. Antiasian rhetoric. Finally, let me say my own coco, was afraid to go into a grocery store. I support this legislation to use we have to stand cure, to fix covid19, not to and destroy the opportunity of saving america and doing the right thing by science. Back. D the speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized. We reserve, madam chair. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Nownadler madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the entlelady from virginia, ms. Spanberger. The speaker pro tempore the virginia is rom recognized. Ms. Spanberger thank you, madam speaker. Of se today in support h. Res. 908. I rise today in support of my of asian desent. Descent. Virginia is home to a strong and vibrant asian community. Covid19 began, weve seen a disturbing rise in hate directed at the Asian AmericanCommunity Across the country, including in virginia. Neighbors, our fellow americans should never be the victims of discrimination, and i am proud to of d with them on the floor this house. We should all actively and i am proud to do so with my vote on the floor of the house. A vote that affirms the following, we call officials to denounce antiasian sentiment, that we recognize health and safety of all americans should be our priority, that we condemn the expression of racism, xenophobia, antiasian sentiment. That we call on Law Enforcement officials to investigate hate crimes and that we recommit United States leadership to society. E inclusive to my colleagues who agree with these principles, i urge them to vote yes in support of this resolution and in support of our neighbors. I will probably vote yes. Thank you. Isthe gentleman from ohio recognized. The gentleman from new york is recognized. I am prepared to close. The gentleman reserves. I urge a no vote for all the reasons weve articulated. Is important to remember this is not about Asian American dissent, its not about chinese people. Its about the Chinese Government. Us government that lied to about the origin of this virus, lied to the world. Use the World Health Organization to mislead the states and s and the world the world. Thats been thats been where criticism has been targeted by the president. Before in, seven weeks an election, democrats dont care about the facts. Attacking the president , calling his supporters, as the speaker of enemies of the state, bringing a resolution to this nature but not being willing to condemn the violence and the mob in the our cities, in daysin places for over 100 straight, looting and violence attacks on our Law Enforcement. Nope. Cant bring a resolution that. Talk about when the attorney general of the United States asked the Democrat Members of the judiciary wont even speak up then. So this resolution is i hope it. Efeat with that i yield back the balance of our time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Nadler madam speaker, i ield myself the balance of the time. This is an important resolution that will put the house firmly on record against an insidious of racism and racial esca scapegoating that we have seen ince the covid19 pandemic began. It is completely unacceptable to and prejudicial terms like chinese virus or wuhan virus as if they merely the factual reality of where the Novel Coronavirus that originated. 19 first, this logic does nothing o justify the use of the term kungflu. Another term often used by some covid19. E a term clearly designed to mock asians and to associate them with this disease. The need for this legislation is investing in cleanair development and a first prevention act. 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