Table of Contents
FIREurges Reps to vote NO on House resolution targeting university presidents
DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com
UPDATED (Dec. 14, 2023): House Resolution 927 passed 303-126, with 3 members voting present and 2 members not voting. The resolution required a two-thirds vote to pass.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote today on , which condemns the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their testimony before Congress last week.
Such a resolution threatens freedom of expression on college campuses by admonishing the presidents for rightly standing up to calls for blanket censorship of students. This afternoon, we sent an alert to members of Congress urging them to vote against the resolution.
Read the email in full below:
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit
Podcast
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry. Eventually, she rebelled. "You don't speak up at first," she told us. "First you leave and you find a place of safety. It's...
FIREstatement on congressional leaders smuggling unconstitutional Antisemitism Awareness Act into a must-pass defense bill
149 days and counting! Will the White House grant a posthumous pardon in the D.M. Bennett Case? — First Amendment News 447
