Political Quotes

“I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Tanko of California moves to recommit the bill H.R. 9456 to the Committee on Financial Services. The material previously referred to by Mr. Takano is as follows: Mr. Takano moves to recommit the bill H.R. 9456 to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith, with the following amendment: Insert after section 1 the following: SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following: (1) The scapegoating of Asian and Iranian Americans for our nation's problems has long been part of U.S. history--and history has shown us that heightened xenophobia creates a cycle which leads to violence. Since the 19th century, Asian Americans have been unjustly targeted through the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the ``Yellow Peril'' era lynchings of Chinese immigrants, exclusionary alien land laws, the incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans during World War II, the murder of Vincent Chin, the mass surveillance of Muslim, Middle Eastern, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian communities in the aftermath of 9/11, and the racial profiling of Chinese American scientists under the China Initiative. (2) Today, nearly half (49%) of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide have experienced discrimination or unfair treatment that may be illegal.…”