Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured in the attack, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 117.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARRETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 144, September 7, 2017, Page H7183):
  Article 1, Section 8, U.S. Constitution ____________________
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 7, 2017 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  60 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 117, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hjres/117

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  50cf99c9802f848214f5a97c9c12792c7202477e04ac5f84da2595bc36ee797c

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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