https://eagleeyecitizen.org/ en https://eagleeyecitizen.org/node/74 <span>Regret for Discriminatory Laws</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/5" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">scollini</span></span> <span>Wed, 07/20/2016 - 11:08</span> <div> <div>LOC URL</div> <div><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-resolution/282">https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-resolution/282</a></div> </div> <div> <div>LOC Title</div> <div>H.Res.282 - Expressing the regret of the House of Representatives for the passage of discriminatory laws against the Chinese in the United States, including the Chinese Exclusion Act.</div> </div> <div> <div>LOC Summary</div> <div>States that the House of Representatives: (1) acknowledges that the framework of past anti-Chinese legislation, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, is incompatible with the basic founding principles of equality recognized in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; (2) regrets passing six decades of legislation targeting the Chinese people for physical and political exclusion; and (3) reaffirms its commitment to preserving the same civil rights and constitutional protections for people of Chinese or other Asian descent in the United States accorded to all others.</div> </div> <div> <div>LOC Contributor Names</div> <div>112th Congress</div> </div> <div> <div>LOC Standardized Date</div> <div>5/26/2011</div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Creators</div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/137" hreflang="en">112th U.S. Congress</a></div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Source Day</div> <div>26</div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Source Month</div> <div>May</div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Source Year</div> <div>2011</div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Format</div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/1" hreflang="en">Text</a></div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Type of Source</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/14" hreflang="en">Legislation</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Theme Topic</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/424" hreflang="en">Legislative Branch - Chinese Exclusion Act</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Internal Notes</div> <div>Check transcript. SC 7/20/16<br /> GK White reviewed 8/9/16</div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Theme</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/184" hreflang="en">Legislative Branch</a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div>EEC Topics</div> <div> <div><a href="/taxonomy/term/400" hreflang="en">Chinese Exclusion Act</a></div> </div> </div> Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:08:22 +0000 scollini 74 at https://eagleeyecitizen.org