A House amendment requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks passed Wednesday in a party-line vote. The measure, introduced by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), directs the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense to analyze and set out strategies to combat such activity in the uniformed services and federal law enforcement agencies. Among other requests, the report would include figures on discharges due to white supremacist or neo-Nazi activity and information on agency responses to related incidents.
Zero House Republicans on Wednesday supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law enforcement agencies to publish a report on countering white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity in their ranks.Rep.
is experiencing a rise in domestic terrorism, pointing to the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh by a right-wing, anti-Semitic gunman, and the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was killed when a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of progressive counter-protesters.
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