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That the House of Representatives— (1) recognizes the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre of 1885 and honors the memory of the Chinese immigrant workers who were murdered; (2) acknowledges the massacre as one of the deadliest acts of anti-Chinese and anti-immigrant violence in United States history; (3) honors the contributions of Chinese immigrant laborers whose work helped build critical American infrastructure despite exploitation, discrimination, and violence; (4) condemns the racist mob violence perpetrated against the Chinese community of Rock Springs and the failure of authorities to protect Chinese residents or hold perpetrators accountable; (5) condemns historical efforts to erase, distort, or deny the reality of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre and other acts of anti-Asian violence; (6) recognizes the importance of education about the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre and the broader history of anti-Asian discrimination in the United States; (7) encourages the documentation, interpretation, and commemoration of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre site in Wyoming, including through survey, historical research, archaeological excavations, and consideration of eligibility for recognition under Federal historic preservation programs, as part of a broader effort to identify and preserve places significant to the history of Chinese Americans and Asian and Pacific Islander American communities in the United States and as recommended in the Transcontinental Railroad Study approved by Congress in 2019; (8) encourages education about the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, including its causes, the racial ideology that fueled it, and the subsequent attempts to deny or rewrite its history, in schools and institutions of higher education; and (9) recognizes the responsibility of Congress to acknowledge and learn from the history of anti-Asian violence, discrimination, and exclusion in the United States, including the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, and to work toward racial justice.