Senate resolution to force Trump's hand on condemning Charlottesville hate groups
Senate resolution to force Trump's hand on condemning Charlottesville hate groups
By SEUNG MIN KIM 09/06/2017 06:00 AM EDT Updated 09/06/2017 10:26 AM EDT
The Senate is preparing to force President Donald Trump to go on record to officially condemn the deadly white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last month.
Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, along with Republican Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, plan to formally roll out a Senate resolution later Wednesday that forcefully condemns the violence in Charlottesville while “rejecting white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups.”
The Senate routinely takes up nonbinding measures commemorating people and institutions in the form of concurrent resolutions and simple resolutions, which are both purely symbolic and not submitted to the White House for the president’s signature.
But backers of the Charlottesville resolution have strategically chosen to introduce their measure as a joint resolution, which means it will be sent to Trump to sign into law.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/senate-charlottesville-trump-hate-groups-242361
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