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AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE

NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5602

OFFERED BY MR. BUCK OF COLORADO

1 On page 1, at the end of line 6, insert the following: 2 “ and far-left-wing extremists together with”. 3 On page 1, line 8 insert “one” between “are” and 4 “the”. 5 On page 6, between lines 15 and 16, insert the 6 following and redesignate all that follows accordingly: 7 “(2) The anarchist, socialist-progressive, political 8 left in the , particularly since President 9 Trump won the 2016 Presidential election, has engaged in 10 a series of criminal acts used to intimidate and terrorize 11 peaceful, law-abiding citizens, law enforcement 12 personnel, members of the United States military, and 13 elected officials, regularly resulting in violent assaults, 14 vandalism, and death threats including in each of the 15 following incidents: 16 “(A) On March 4, 2010, a registered 17 Democrat with anti-government views shot and 18 wounded two Pentagon police officers; 19 “(B) On September 1, 2010, an individual 20 who was a left-wing, eco-terrorist that viewed 21 humans as global parasites and whose anti- 22 population manifesto was heavily influenced by 2

1 Democratic Vice President Al Gore’s An 2 Inconvenient Truth, took three people hostage 3 inside of Discovery’s headquarters in Silver Spring, 4 Maryland; 5 “(C) On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins II 6 entered the Washington. D.C. office of The Family 7 Research Council (FRC), shooting an unarmed 8 security guard, and later confessed during a post- 9 arrest police interrogation that he chose his target 10 based on information found on the website of a far- 11 left hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center 12 (SPLC), demonstrating this was a politically 13 motivated attack; 14 “(D) On August 15, 2013, an envelope 15 containing ricin addressed to a Republican United 16 States Senator was intercepted by the United States 17 Capitol Police and, it was later determined, had 18 been mailed by James Dutschke, who 19 unsuccessfully ran for election for commissioner of 20 Lee County, Mississippi as a Democrat; 21 “(E) In June 2016, in San Jose, California, a 22 group of Trump campaign supporters were 23 viciously attacked by a leftist mob and a subsequent 24 lawsuit alleges that San Jose Police directed the 25 Trump supporters towards the mob, and away from 26 safety, where the police then abandoned the Trump 3

1 supporters – putting them directly and intentionally 2 in harm’s way; 3 “(F) On July 7, 2016, an individual shot and 4 killed five Dallas police officers and wounded nine 5 others along with two civilians and, according to the 6 Dallas Police Department, stated “he wanted to kill 7 white people, especially white officers.”; 8 “(G) In October 14, 2016, a Republican Party 9 office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was 10 firebombed and rendered a “total loss” while graffiti 11 on an adjacent building described Republicans as 12 “Nazis.” 13 “(H) In November 2016, a female high 14 school student in San Mateo County, California was 15 attacked by a group of students because she 16 expressed support for Presidential candidate Donald 17 Trump; 18 “(I) On November 6, 2016, the President of 19 Cornell University’s College Republicans was 20 physically assaulted on election night and her 21 attacker’s comments made clear the attack was 22 politically motivated; 23 “(J) On November 7, 2016, a Central Florida 24 student at Bayside High was holding a Trump sign 25 when he was viciously assaulted by another student 26 and punched in the face; the attacker made clear that 4

1 the attack was motivated by politics and race – the 2 victim was white; 3 “(K) On January 20, 2017, the day President 4 Trump was inaugurated, at least 217 violent left- 5 wing protestors were arrested on a variety of 6 charges including vandalism and assault; 7 “(L) In January 2017, four Chicago teens 8 engaged in a hate crime, assaulting a disabled high 9 school student while making derogatory comments 10 about President Trump; 11 “(M) On January 30, 2017, a mob of left- 12 wing Trump protestors attacked a man at the 13 Portland International Airport, striking him in the 14 head three times with a metal object and rendering 15 him unconscious and then cheering as some in the 16 crowd stomped on the man; 17 “(N) In February 2017, left-wing protestors 18 attacked a 71-year-old Congressional staff in 19 California, striking her unconscious; 20 “(O) In March 2017, the youngest son of 21 Virginia United States Senator Tim Kaine, the Vice- 22 Presidential running mate of Hillary Clinton in 23 2016, was part of a leftist group that threw a smoke 24 bomb to disrupt a pro-Trump event. Kaine 25 eventually pled guilty to criminal conduct; 26 “(P) In April 2017, three conservative 27 political events, two in California and one in 5

1 Oregon, had to be cancelled as a result of terrorist 2 threats of violence directed at the events’ speakers. 3 “(Q) In May 2017, the Federal Bureau of 4 Investigation (FBI) arrested an individual who had 5 made repeated threats that he was going to shoot a 6 Republican Congresswoman from Arizona because 7 of her support for President Trump; 8 “(R) On May 11, 2017, Weakley County 9 Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee arrested a thirty-three- 10 year-old woman for an incident that occurred on 11 May 8, 2017. The woman followed the car of a 12 Republican lawmaker, running it off the road, and 13 then pounded her fist on the car and attempting to 14 reach into it. She was later charged with felony 15 reckless endangerment; 16 “(S) On May 11, 2017, police were forced to 17 escort an angry man from a town hall of then- 18 Representative Kevin Cramer after the man became 19 physical with Cramer. On the day prior, The 20 Huffington Post called on the “Resistance” of the 21 political left to harass Republican elected officials 22 in public and in their homes.; 23 “(T) On June 14, 2017, James Hodgkinson – 24 a volunteer on Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential 25 campaign who raged against Republicans and who 26 used social media and websites to post anti-Trump 27 sentiments – shot Republican Whip , a 6

1 Republican Congressional staff member, and U.S. 2 Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner at a practice 3 session for the Congressional baseball game; 4 “(U) On June 15, 2017, the FBI investigated 5 a suspicious package containing a white powdery 6 substance and a threatening note that was sent to 7 Karen Handel, a Republican candidate for Congress 8 from , and several similar packages sent to 9 her neighbors.; 10 “(V) In August 2017, the media reported that 11 the home of Secretary of Housing and Urban 12 Development (HUD) had been vandalized by left 13 wing advocates who damaged the property with 14 “hateful rhetoric about President Trump”; 15 “(W) On August 17, 2017, a Democratic 16 Missouri state senator, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, 17 used social media to post, “I hope Trump is 18 assassinated.” When called on to resign for her 19 hateful rhetoric, Chappelle-Nadal stated, “There is 20 no way in hell that I’m resigning”; 21 “(X) At an August 2017 conservative 22 gathering in Laguna Beach, California, African 23 American conservative activist R.C. Maxwell was 24 assaulted for his political views by a 20-year-old 25 who was part of an “aggressive group” of 26 protestors. The perpetrator of the attack later used 27 to boast about his attack on Maxwell; 7

1 “(Y) In December 2017, the Lincoln office of 2 United States Senator from , , 3 was vandalized; 4 “(Z) On December 25, 2017, the family of 5 Representative Jeff Fortenberry found a series of 6 threatening and derogatory signs in their yard; 7 “(AA) On February 12, 2018, a 8 Massachusetts man sent a hoax threat letter to the 9 home of , Jr. – the letter contained a 10 white powder that read in part, “you are getting 11 what you deserve” and a similar letter had been sent 12 to Eric Trump’s home in 2016; 13 “(BB) In March 2018, a student was 14 assaulted at his high school in Minnesota because 15 he was carrying a flag that contained the word 16 “Trump”; 17 “(CC) On March 18, 2018, a man yelling 18 “anti-Trump” rhetoric entered the Trump National 19 Doral Golf Club outside of Miami and fired a gun – 20 at the roof and chandeliers and, when police arrived, 21 he fired his gun at the police; 22 “(DD) On May 3, 2018, the media reported 23 that Bexar County, Texas Democratic 24 Commissioner, Tommy Calvert, disclosed a 25 conversation he had with a Democratic United 26 States Senator, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, in 27 which Menendez suggested that if the 2020 8

1 Republican National Convention was held in San 2 Antonio that food served to Republican delegates 3 would be poisoned; 4 “(EE) On May 20, 2018, a conservative 5 media personality associated with FoxNews was 6 verbally and physically assaulted at a restaurant in 7 Minneapolis, Minnesota because of her political 8 views; 9 “(FF) On May 24, 2018, the media reported 10 that the Justice Department announced legal action 11 in response to three instances where Republican 12 lawmakers, including the former chairman of the 13 House Committee on the Judiciary Representative 14 Bob Goodlatte, were threatened with harm and even 15 death”; 16 “(GG) On June 16, 2018, a Jewish supporter 17 of President Trump was attacked in San Francisco 18 while standing next to a Trump flag. The attacker 19 pushed the victim, putting him in an extended 20 chokehold, and only stopped after police instructed 21 the attacker to “back-off”; 22 “(HH) On June 25, 2018, a flash mob of 23 Democratic-Socialists went to the home of then- 24 Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, 25 Kristjen Nielsen, with the intention of intruding on 26 her privacy; 9

1 “(II) In June 2018, a man from Norwalk, 2 California sent a series of emails to Federal 3 Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman 4 Ajit Pai in which he threatened Pai’s family. One of 5 the emails contained a list of preschools near Pai’s 6 home and a message that said, “I will find your 7 children and I will kill them.” The man was 8 motivated because of the FCC’s actions related to 9 net neutrality; 10 “(JJ) In June 2018, left-wing activists 11 harassed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a 12 movie theater, spitting on her, assaulting her, and 13 preventing her from leaving the theater; 14 “(KK) On June 30, 2018, a San Diego 15 attorney who is on the left of the political spectrum, 16 violently attacked an elderly, pro-American veteran 17 who was holding a sign that read “Build the Wall, 18 Enforce the Law.”; 19 “(LL) In early July 2018, vandals in Lincoln, 20 Nebraska threw bricks through the window of a 21 Republican office and spray-painted “Abolish Ice” 22 – a rallying cry common among the far left of the 23 political spectrum who oppose immigration 24 enforcement and advocate for open borders; 25 “(MM) On July 2, 2018, United States 26 Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, publicly 27 acknowledged that he and his family had been the 10

1 target of a man who threatened to chop them up with 2 an axe. The United States Capitol Police 3 investigated, issuing an arrest warrant for the 4 perpetrator; 5 “(NN) On July 4, 2018, San Antonio police 6 arrested a 30-year-old man after he had assaulted a 7 teenage boy wearing a “Make America Great 8 Again” hat at a Whataburger restaurant. The suspect 9 had verbally abused the boy, threw a drink in his 10 face and stole his MAGA hat before walking away 11 with it. In response to the incident, the teenager, 12 showing maturity beyond his years stated, “I just 13 think a conversation about politics is more 14 productive… than taking my hat and yelling…”; 15 “(OO) In July 2018, media reports indicated 16 a New York man threatened to kill supporters of 17 President Trump outside of the campaign office of 18 a sitting Republican Member of Congress; 19 “(PP) On July 6, 2018, a self-described Black 20 Lives Matter supporter called for the assassination 21 of a Supreme Court Justice via twitter; 22 “(QQ) In July 2018, “Abolish Ice” protestors 23 vandalized a Department of Homeland Security 24 Office in New York; 25 “(RR) On July 16, 2018, a senior Democrat 26 on the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a 27 reckless tweet that seemed to suggest the military 11

1 should engage in a military coup to unseat President 2 Trump; 3 “(SS) In July 2018, a Seattle teenager was 4 physically assaulted and spat upon while wearing a 5 “Make America Great Again” hat; 6 “(TT) On August 3, 2018, several far-left 7 individuals including a registered Democrat, were 8 arrested for making terrorist threats against United 9 States Representatives Steve Scalise and Chris 10 Smith; 11 “(UU) On August 5, 2018, Antifa protestors 12 in Berkeley, California used hammers to smash the 13 windows of a Marine Corps recruiting post; 14 “(VV) In early August 2018, near 15 Sacramento, California, Antifa racists attacked a 16 religious Sikh who was putting up yard signs for a 17 Republican Congressman. The Antifa group hurled 18 anti-immigrant insults at the man while beating 19 him; 20 “(WW) In August 2018, a Republican office 21 in Mesa, Arizona was vandalized by political leftists 22 when a rock was thrown through a glass door; 23 “(XX) On September 6, 2018, a Republican 24 office in Laramie, Wyoming that is used by the 25 Albany County Republican Party and Wyoming 26 College Republicans was firebombed; 12

1 “(YY) On September 11, 2018, Alameda 2 County, California law enforcement arrested a man 3 after he pulled a switchblade and attempted to stab 4 a Republican candidate for Congress. The attacker’s 5 comments made clear that the attack was politically 6 motivated; 7 “(ZZ) On September 25, 2018, Antifa in 8 Washington, D.C. sent a threatening tweet about 9 Republicans, including suggesting that a sitting 10 United States Republican Senator was “not safe’; 11 “(AAA) On October 2, 2018, vandals 12 attacked a Republican office in Illinois, spray 13 painting it with graffiti; 14 “(BBB) On October 2, 2018, two people 15 working in a campaign office for a Republican 16 United States Senator were hospitalized after being 17 exposed to a white powdery substance sent to 18 terrorize ; 19 “(CCC) On October 2, 2018, protestors were 20 arrested in the Longworth House Office Building 21 after they assaulted a Republican Member of 22 Congress; 23 “(DDD) On October 3, 2018, President 24 Trump was of a politically motivated ricin 25 mail attack. On the same day, Defense Secretary 26 James Mattis and FBI Director Christopher Wray 27 were targets of similar attacks; 13

1 “(EEE) On October 4, 2018, media reported 2 that a staff member in the personal office of a 3 Democratic member of the House Committee on the 4 Judiciary was arrested for doxxing several 5 Republican Senators who had supported the 6 nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. The staff member 7 also threatened to release private information, such 8 as the health records of Republican Senators’ 9 children in retaliation for their vote; 10 “(FFF) On October 11, 2018, the 11 Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan was 12 vandalized, windows were broken with rocks, doors 13 defaced, and Antifa graffiti was left behind. A note 14 from the attackers made clear the attack was 15 politically motivated; 16 “(GGG) On October 16, 2018, someone 17 claimed to have sent a letter containing ricin to the 18 home of a Republican United States Senator who 19 voted in support of the Kavanaugh nomination to 20 the Supreme Court of the United States; 21 “(HHH) On October 16, 2018, the female 22 Campaign Manager for the Republican candidate 23 for Governor in Nevada was physically assaulted by 24 a Democratic operative who was associated with a 25 group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. 26 The attacker, who was arrested, had also been 14

1 arrested earlier in the year for assaulting a female 2 press aide to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke; 3 “(III) On October 23, 2018, a rock was 4 thrown into the district office of a Republican 5 Member of Congress from California and the 6 perpetrators also stole office equipment; 7 “(JJJ) On October 25, 2018, a Republican 8 office in Iowa City, Iowa was vandalized; 9 “(KKK) On October 29, 2018, four gunshots 10 were fired into the Volusia County, Florida 11 Republican headquarters; 12 “(LLL) On November 8, 2018, violent 13 progressives linked with Antifa attempted to break 14 into FoxNews host Tucker Carlson’s house while 15 his family was home. The violent, leftist mob left 16 threatening messages and vandalized the Carlson 17 home, driveway, and a car. Police were 18 characterizing the attack as a politically-motivated 19 “hate crime.”; 20 “(MMM) Immediately before the November 21 2018 elections, while engaging in campaign 22 activities and wearing a “Make America Great 23 Again” hat, a man was attacked while walking in 24 downtown Tucson, Arizona. The attacker jumped 25 the victim from behind and stomped on the his 26 ankle, breaking it in four places. The victim was 15

1 repeatedly hit while the attacker shouted that 2 Republicans were Nazis; 3 “(NNN) On November 17, 2018, an Antifa 4 member was arrested after punching and spitting on 5 conservative activists in Portland, Oregon; 6 “(OOO) On January 5 and January 6, 2019, 7 supporters of United States Congresswoman 8 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used social media 9 suggesting Republican House Whip Steve Scalise 10 should become the victim of deadly gun violence. 11 At the time, the media reported that Ocasio-Cortez 12 had not denounced calls of violence by her 13 supporters who had threatened to assassinate 14 Scalise; 15 “(PPP) On January 10, 2019, a leader of 16 Antifa from Washington, D.C. was arrested and 17 charged with multiple felonies in Philadelphia, 18 Pennsylvania stemming from a mob attack of two 19 United States Marines in November 2018; 20 “(QQQ) On January 29, 2019, actor Jussie 21 Smollett filed a police report in Chicago, falsely 22 claiming supporters of President Trump attacked 23 him and tied a noose around his neck. Smollett was 24 later charged by a grand jury on six counts 25 pertaining to filing false police reports; 26 “(RRR) In February 2019, a liberal in 27 Kentucky pulled a gun on another man who was 16

1 wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, 2 pointed the gun in the victim’s face and said, “It’s a 3 good day for you to die”; 4 “(SSS) In February 2019, a leftist thug in 5 Berkley, California assaulted a conservative who 6 was “tabling” and handing out literature. The 7 victim’s nose and eye were injured as a result of the 8 attack; 9 “(TTT) On February 25, 2019, in Edmond, 10 Oklahoma, a high school student assaulted a 11 younger classmate for wearing a “Make America 12 Great Again” hat; 13 “(UUU) On February 25, 2019, an 81-year- 14 old man was assaulted by a younger man outside of 15 a grocery store in Franklin, New Jersey because the 16 elderly gentleman was wearing pro-Trump 17 memorabilia; 18 “(VVV) In February 2019, an 81-year-old 19 man was attacked at a supermarket in Somerset 20 County, New Jersey because he was wearing a 21 “Make America Great Again” hat; 22 “(WWW) On March 5, 2019, a Martin 23 County, Florida public school official assaulted a 24 14-year-old for wearing a “Make America Great” 25 hat; 26 “(XXX) On March 21, 2019, an 85-year-old 27 pro-life activist was brutally attacked while he was 17

1 praying outside of a facility in 2 San Francisco, California. The attacker knocked the 3 elderly gentleman down and then repeatedly kicked 4 him; 5 “(YYY) On April 11, 2019, a conservative 6 speaker was assaulted by a protestor while speaking 7 at the University of Missouri on the subject of the 8 differences between men and women; 9 “(ZZZ) On April 13, 2019, in Maryland, two 10 men attacked and robbed an immigrant who was 11 wearing a “Make America Great Again” Hat; 12 “(AAAA) In late April 2019, the FBI 13 uncovered an alleged plot by Antifa to obtain guns 14 from Mexican cartels with the intent of staging “an 15 armed rebellion at the border”; 16 “(BBBB) In June 2019, conservative 17 journalist, Andy Ngo, was attacked by Antifa 18 activists. Ngo suffered bruises and cuts on his face 19 and brain injury as a result of the mob beating. Ngo 20 said that, “In a functioning liberal Democracy, we 21 cannot normalize political violence”; 22 “(CCCC) In late September 2019, a former 23 Hillary Clinton staffer and Democratic activist was 24 arrested in Michigan after sexually assaulting a 25 mentally handicapped 18-year-old; 26 “(DDDD) On October 10, 2019, Antifa 27 rioters, engaging in left-wing violence, physically 18

1 attacked several supporters outside of a Trump rally 2 in Minneapolis; 3 “(EEEE) On October 31, 2019, national 4 media reported that former staff member in the 5 office of Democratic United States Senator, Maggie 6 Hassan, was convicted and sentenced for her role in 7 Republican Senators following the 8 Kavanaugh nomination; 9 “(FFFF) On November 5, 2019, Antifa 10 attacked two people who were filming Antifa’s 11 activities on public property; 12 “(GGGG) On December 13, 2019, five 13 students in Hamilton County, Florida assaulted a 14 14-year-old on a school bus because he had 15 previously worn a “Make America Great Again” 16 hat; 17 “(HHHH) On February 8, 2020, in what has 18 been labeled as a politically motivated attack, 19 Gregory Timm intentionally drove his van into a 20 pro-Trump Republican voter registration drive tent 21 that was pitched outside a Walmart in Jacksonville, 22 Florida; 23 “(IIII) On February 11, 2020, outside a 24 polling place in Windham, New Hampshire, Patrick 25 Bradley assaulted a 15-year-old who was wearing a 26 Trump hat and then assaulted two adult Trump 19

1 supporters when had tried to intervene to stop the 2 politically-motivated assault; 3 “(JJJJ) On March 4, 2020, United States 4 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, from New 5 York, stood before the Supreme Court of the United 6 States and clearly engaged in threats against two 7 sitting members of the court, undermining and 8 threatening an independent judiciary.” 9 On page 12, line 22 insert the following after “by”: 10 “Antifa, anarchists, fascists, Socialists, anti-Semites, 11 Black supremacists,” 12 On page 12, line 23 insert the following after 13 “including” and before “White”: 14 “Antifa, anarchists, fascists, Socialists, anti-Semites, 15 Black supremacists,” 16 On page 13, line 7 insert the following after 17 “related” and before “incidents”: 18 “, Antifa-related, anarchist-related, fascist-related, 19 Socialist-related, anti-Semitic related, and Black 20 supremacist-related”; 21 On page 13, line 13 insert the following after 22 “related” and before “incidents”; 23 “, Antifa-related, anarchist-related, fascist-related, 24 Socialist-related, anti-Semitic related, and Black 25 supremacist-related”; 26 On page 13, line 25 insert the following after 27 “supremacism” and before “;”: 20

1 “and any other hateful ideology including anti-Semitism, 2 acts of terrorism motivated by anti-government sentiment, 3 or other acts of terrorism which, because of their nature, 4 are designed to intimidate and silence the political speech 5 of, or the exercise of any Constitutionally-protected rights 6 by, others” 7 On page 14, line 8, insert the following between 8 “supremacism” and “,”: 9 “and any other form of hate-based motive or ideology 10 identified in this Act” 11 On Page 14, line 18 insert the following between 12 “supremacism” and “,”: 13 “and any other form of hate-based motive or ideology 14 identified in this Act” # # #