{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/vote-explainer-condemning-antisemitism-university-campuses", "Vote Explainer: Condemning Antisemitism on University campuses", "2023-12-14", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Seth Moulton", "M001196", "moulton.house.gov", "moulton", "https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Transparency is vital to democracy. Below please find explainers for key votes I took in the 118th Congress.\n\nOn December 13th, I voted in favor of H. Res 927, a bipartisan House resolution entitled \u201cCondemning antisemitism on University campuses and the testimony of University Presidents in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.\u201d\n\nI agree with the two core tenets of this resolution: condemning the rise of antisemitism on university campuses across the country and condemning recent testimonies by the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania in which all three failed to say that calls for the genocide of Jews would or should violate their codes of conduct.\n\nUniversities have codes of conduct that go further than our legal code for a reason. For example: plagiarism isn\u2019t against the law, but it violates the code of conduct of virtually every academic institution in America. The same logic applies to certain forms of speech on campus that degrade their communities.\n\nWhile I overwhelmingly support the primary provisions of the resolution, I did not agree with the inclusion of one particular phrase that reads \u201cWhereas President Magill has resigned, and the other Presidents should follow suit.\u201d Although, importantly, the resolution is not directive on this point (it appears in the preamble, not the \u201cbe it resolved\u2026\u201d section), and it suggests they should resign voluntarily, not be fired, I don\u2019t agree with the implication. I have previously stated that I will not call on the presidents to be fired because I don\u2019t want to perpetuate the \u2018cancel culture\u2019 that is already far too pervasive on college campuses like Harvard. I have also publicly stated that I hope university leaders will learn from this shameful episode and start to display the moral leadership we should all expect in this difficult moment.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/vote-explainer-condemning-antisemitism-university-campuses"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8090790361166, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}