119-sconres21

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 21 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
S. CON. RES. 21

 Denouncing the horrors of socialism.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 3, 2025

 Mr. Scott of Florida submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
 which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 Denouncing the horrors of socialism.

Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has, time 
 and time again, collapsed into communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and 
 brutal dictatorships;
Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing 
 of over 100,000,000 people worldwide;
Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist 
 ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel 
 Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, 
 and Nicolas Maduro;
Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 
 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist 
 Republics, and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine

    (Holodomor) in 
 Ukraine;
Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of 
 famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China;
Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which 
 over a million people were gruesomely murdered;
Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of 
 freedom from a land of destitution;
Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the 
 businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their 
 livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their 
 backs;
Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-
 prosperous country into a failed State with the highest rate of 
 inflation in the world;
Whereas President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of 
 Independence, wrote, ``To take from one, because it is thought that his 
 own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to 
 spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry 
 and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 
 the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the 
 fruits acquired by it'';
Whereas President James Madison, the ``Father of the Constitution'', wrote that 
 it ``is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where 
 the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal 
 liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for 
 the service of the rest''; and
Whereas the United States was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the 
 individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of 
 its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be 
 it
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the 
implementation of socialist policies in the United States.
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