Pennsylvania legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Pennsylvania HR672: A Resolution urging the Federal Government to condemn the rioting and civil unrest in France and across Europe, expressing solidarity with the people of France and of our European allies and reaffirming the principles of secure borders, the rule of law and the protection of God-given rights and property.
Status: In committee, October 28, 2026
What the bill says
A resolution Urging the Federal Government to condemn the rioting and civil unrest in France and across Europe, expressing solidarity with the people of France and of our European allies and reaffirming the principles of secure borders, the rule of law and the protection of God-given rights and property.
From the introduced text, October 28, 2026:
A RESOLUTION Urging the Federal Government to condemn the rioting and civil unrest in France and across Europe, expressing solidarity with the people of France and of our European allies and reaffirming the principles of secure borders, the rule of law and the protection of God-given rights and property. WHEREAS, The friendship between the United States and France was sealed by the Treaty of Alliance of 1778 by the Marquis de Lafayette, who was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1777, and by the French forces that made the victory at Yorktown in 1781 possible; and WHEREAS, As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence in 2026, Pennsylvanians gratefully remember France's role in securing American liberty; and WHEREAS, Since September 2026, demonstrations in France over school conditions, wages, fuel prices and the cost-of-living grew into a national movement, culminating on October 17, 2026, in marches that the French Ministry of the Interior estimated at 550,000 participants; and WHEREAS, While most demonstrators marched peacefully, masked and organized groups set fires, stormed public buildings and looted businesses in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux and other cities, with violence continuing on October 18, 2026; and WHEREAS, Rioters burned and largely destroyed the 19th- century City Hall of Limoges, and stormed the City Hall …