Text of Senate Amendment Condemning Any Acts of Violence or Discrimination Against Any Americans

On September 13, 2001, the Senate amended and passed H.R. 2500, the Departments of Commerce, Justice and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, with Sec. 631, condemning any acts of violence or discrimination against any Americans, including Arab-Americans and American Muslims.

Following is the text of the Senate Amendment:

[Congressional Record: September 14, 2001 (Senate)]
[Page S9443-S9459]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr14se01-151]

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002

Sec. 631. (a) The Senate finds that--
       (1) all Americans are united in condemning, in the 
     strongest possible terms, the terrorists who planned and 
     carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United 
     States as well as their sponsors, and in pursuing all of 
     those responsible until they are brought to justice and 
     punished;
       (2) the Arab American and American Muslim communities, are 
     a vital part of our nation;
       (3) the prayer of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the 
     Archbishop of Washington in a Mass on September 12, 2001 for 
     our Nation and the victims in the immediate aftermath of the 
     terrorist hijackings and attacks in New York City, 
     Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania reminds all Americans that 
     ``we must seek the guilty and not strike out against the 
     innocent or we become like them who are without moral 
     guidance or direction'';
       (4) the heads of state of several Arab and predominantly 
     Moslem countries have condemned the terrorist attacks in the 
     United States and the senseless loss of innocent lives; and
       (5) vengeful threats and incidents directed at law-abiding, 
     patriotic Americans of Arab descent and Islamic faith have 
     already occurred such as shots fired at an Islamic Center and 
     police having to turn back 300 people who tried to march on a 
     mosque.
       (b) The Senate--
       (1) declares that in the quest to identify, bring to 
     justice, and punish the perpetrators and sponsors of the 
     terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, 
     that the civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans, 
     including Arab-Americans and American Muslims, should be 
     protected; and
       (2) condemns any acts of violence or discrimination against 
     any Americans, including Arab-Americans and American Muslims.