The House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence against Minnesota state lawmakers last week, after two lawmakers and their spouses were targeted and shot in what Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) called a “politically motivated” attack.
The chamber adopted the resolution, with 424 members voting “yes,” on Wednesday evening. The resolution, led by Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN), “calls for unity and the rejection of political violence in Minnesota and across the United States.”
The show of bipartisan unity comes after Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. He is also the suspect in the failed assassination attempt of Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
In the week since the shootings and amid the growing reality of political violence, congressional
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