The overdue Charlie Kirk, founder and managing director of Turning Point USA, speaks on July 15, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the opening of the Turning Point Action Conference. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Washington – The US house passed a resolution on Friday to honor the conservative activist Charlie Kirk And condemn his assassination.
The Five-page resolution – approved too 310-58 – Kirk attracts as a “brave American patriot”, whose “commitment to civil discussion and debate as a model for young Americans in the entire political spectrum appeared”.
The resolution divided the lower chamber because democratic legislators condemned the murder of Kirk and violence in politics, but the beliefs he expressed.
All 58 votes against the resolution came from Democrats. Ninety -five Democrats voted for the resolution, 38 voted “present” and 22 did not vote.
All 215 Republican votes supported the resolution. Four GOP members were not right.
In the days, since Kirk was fatally shot on September 10, the congress was created when he was fatally shot on a campus of Utah College. The resolution also came when President Donald Trump and his government tried to operate the death of rhetoric about Kirk’s death. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and members of the cabinet plan to take part in a memorial service for Kirk in Arizona on Sunday in Arizona.
“We have said goodbye to a resolution to honor the life and inheritance of Charlie Kirk, my late friend, the friend of so many in this chamber, and we triggered political violence in America,” House spokesman Mike Johnson told reporters in the US Capitol after the vote.
The Republican in Louisiana recited the last line of the resolution, in which the house “asking all Americans … to reject political violence, respect, respect American values and to respect each other as with Americans”.
“Unfortunately, a number of Democrats could not get to vote for it,” said Johnson. “We all have to allow them to make their own judgments about it.”
In a Friday opinionThe chairman of the Congress Black Caucus Yvette Clarke and members of the group said that “violence has no place in our politics”, including the murder of Kirk.
“At the same time, we have to condemn violence without giving up our right to ideas that oppose our values as Americans,” said the members of the Democracy and Caucus in New York and added that they “have a great agreement with many of the beliefs that Charlie Kirk has promoted”.
She also described the house solution as “the attempt to legitimize Kirk’s worldview-a worldview that contains ideas that many Americans find racist, harmful and fundamentally un-American”.
The round on Friday came one day after the Senate said goodbye to a solution – introduced by Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott – this describes October 14, 2025 as the “national holiday of the memory of Charlie Kirk”. No roller call atmosphere was hit.
October 14th marks Kirk’s birthday.
Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report.
