,,iv  #aafth ,,congress  #b;d ,session  
,h4 ,,res4 #ajdb  ,,in ,,the ,,house    
,,of ,,representatives  ,july #i1       
#bjbj,mr4 ,green of ,texas 7for himself1
 ,ms4 ,bass1 ,ms4 ,castor of ,florida1  
,mr4 ,cleaver1 ,mr4 ,cooper1 ,ms4       
,garcia of ,texas1 ,ms4 ,haaland1 ,mr4  
,hastings1 ,mr4 ,kennedy1 ,mr4 ,lawson  
of ,florida1 ,ms4 ,jackson ,lee1 ,mr4   
,lowenthal1 and ,mr4 ,thompson of       
,mississippi7 submitted the following   
resolution2 which was referred to the   
,committee on ,transportation and       
,infrastructure  ,,resolution  ,calling 
on the ,senate to rename the ,russell   
,senate ,office ,building4  ,whereas    
,senator ,richard ,b4 ,russell opposed  
civil rights as unconstitutional and    
unwise2 ,whereas in #aice1 ,senator     
,russell participated in his first      
filibuster of a civil rights bill1 when 
he and his colleagues in the ,senate    
stopped an anti-lynching bill with #f   
days of nonstop talking2 ,whereas in    
#aicf1 ,senator ,russell stated in a    

re-election campaign speech that as one 
who was born and reared in the          
atmosphere of the ,old ,south1 with six 
generations of my forebears now resting 
beneath ,southern soil1 ,i am willing to
 go as far and make as great a sacrifice
 to preserve and insure ,white supremacy
 in the social1 economic1 and political 
life of our state as any man who lives  
within her borders2 ,whereas in #aief1  
,senator ,russell wrote an initial draft
 of the ,southern ,manifesto1 the       
bicameral resolution stating support for
 segregation and refusal to observe     
,brown v4 ,board of ,education2         
,whereas1 because ,president ,lyndon ,b4
 ,johnson signed the ,civil ,rights ,act
 of #aifd1 ,senator ,russell1 along with
 more than a dozen other ,senators1     
including ,herman ,talmadge1 boycotted  
the #aifd ,democratic ,national         
,convention in ,atlantic ,city2         
,whereas1 on ,march #ag1 #aifd1 the ,new
 ,york ,times published an article      
entitled1 ,relocate ,negroes ,evenly in 

,states1 in which ,senator ,russell     
proposed a voluntary racial relocation  
program to adjust the imbalance of the  
,african-,american population between   
the #aa ,states of the old ,confederacy 
and the rest of the ,union2 ,whereas in 
#aigb1 shortly after ,senator ,russell's
 death1 the ,senate voted in an         
overwhelming majority 7#ii-a7 that the  
,old ,senate ,office ,building be named 
the ,russell ,senate ,office ,building2 
,whereas historian ,gilbert ,c4 ,fite   
wrote at the conclusion of his biography
 of ,senator ,russell1 ,white supremacy 
and racial segregation were to him      
cardinal principles for good and        
workable human relationships2 and       
,whereas ,public ,law #aae-eh1 a joint  
resolution signed into law on ,september
 #ad1 #bjag1 rejects ,white nationalism1
 ,white supremacy1 and neo,nazism3 ,now1
 therefore1 be it ,that the ,house of   
,representatives-- 7#a7 once again      
rejects ,white nationalism and ,white   
supremacy as hateful expressions of     

intolerance that are contradictory to   
the values that define the people of the
 ,united ,states2  7#b7 condemns the use
 of captions1 statutes1 memorials1 and  
artwork used or erected to memorialize  
,senator ,richard ,b4 ,russell1 or any  
other lawmaker who intentionally        
disavowed the ,declaration of           
,independence's exhortation that all    
persons are created equal2 and  7#c7    
calls on the ,senate to rename the      
,russell ,senate ,office ,building for  
an honoree who embraced equality for all
 ,americans1 and to revert to using the 
building's original name1 the ,old      
,senate ,office ,building1 until the    
,senate selects such honoree4