Bill Text: MI HR0241 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: A resolution to condemn the Republican National Committee for whitewashing and lying about the violent, deadly, and seditious January 6, 2021, insurrection by referring to it as "legitimate political discourse".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-01 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [HR0241 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HR0241-Introduced.html
house resolution no.241
Reps. Tate, Lasinski, Rogers, Steckloff, Hope, Koleszar, Kuppa, Brenda Carter, Bolden, Steenland and Manoogian offered the following resolution:
Whereas, While they may disagree on policy matters, our country's major political parties and their leadership should always act with integrity and honesty. The parties have a responsibility to help uphold our nation's shared values, including those of peace and democracy; and
Whereas, On January 6, 2021, a mob engaged in an insurrection at the seat of our country's government and invaded the United States Capitol Complex. The criminal participants violently disrupted a joint session of Congress duly assembled to count the electoral ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election; and
Whereas, The insurrection was a destructive, heinous attack on our democracy. It resulted in at least five deaths, including a Capitol Police officer, and well over 100 injuries. The individuals involved ransacked the chambers of the United States Senate and congressional offices, engaged in numerous acts of vandalism and looting, and committed other abhorrent acts and crimes; and
Whereas, The United States House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, which includes Republicans Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, is carrying out a critically important task vital to our democratic process. Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger, along with the Democratic committee members, deserve commendation for their work to investigate the January 6, 2021, insurrection, not disturbing political attacks; and
Whereas, A Republican National Committee resolution was adopted to "formally censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and to no longer support them as members of the Republican Party," noting that the two U.S. Representatives are part of a "persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse"; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, That we condemn the Republican National Committee for whitewashing and lying about the violent, deadly, and seditious January 6, 2021, insurrection by referring to it as "legitimate political discourse"; and be it further
Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the members of the Michigan congressional delegation, the members of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the chair of the Republican National Committee.
