H.R. 6540

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6540

To request the designation of an Anti-Communism Week, and for other 
purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 9, 2025

Ms. Salazar (for herself, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Webster 
of Florida, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. 
Gimenez, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. McDowell, Mr. 
Haridopolos, and Mr. Hunt) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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A BILL

To request the designation of an Anti-Communism Week, and for other 
purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Anti-Communism Week Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ANTI-COMMUNISM WEEK.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) Anti-Communism Week is a solemn remembrance of the 
devastation caused by one of history's most destructive 
ideologies.
(2) Across continents and generations, communism has 
wrought devastation upon nations and souls.
(3) More than 100,000,000 lives have been taken by regimes 
that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy 
prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given 
rights and dignity of those they oppressed.
(4) Honoring the memory of those lives renews the promise 
of the United States to stand firm against communism, to uphold 
the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more 
that no system of government can ever replace the will and 
conscience of a free people.
(5) For more than a century, communism has brought nothing 
but ruin, silencing dissent, punishing beliefs, and demanding 
that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of 
standing for freedom.
(6) The story of communism is written in blood and sorrow, 
a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another 
word for servitude.
(7) In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the 
world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the 
persistence of tyranny in new forms.
(8) New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the 
language of ``social justice'' and ``democratic socialism,'' 
yet their message remains to give up freedom, place trust in 
the power of the government, and trade the promise of 
prosperity for the empty comfort of control.
(9) The United States rejects communism and remains a 
country founded on the eternal truth that liberty and 
opportunity are the birthrights of every individual, and that 
no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.
(10) The United States stands in defense of the values that 
define it as a country of free people and honors the victims of 
oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that 
communism and every system that denies the rights to life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, 
once and for all, on the ash heap of history.
(b) Designation.--Chapter 1 of title 36, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 149. Anti-Communism Week
``The President is requested to each year designate a week as Anti-
Communism Week and issue a proclamation calling on the people of the 
United States to observe Anti-Communism Week with appropriate 
ceremonies and activities.''.
(c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 1 of 
title 36, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 148 the following new item:

``149. Anti-Communism Week.''.
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