Whereas, on November 6, 2018, in an election widely regarded as a referendum on the performance and disapproval of the administration of President Donald J. Trump, the American people voted to vest control of the House of Representatives in the Democratic Party to restore the system of checks and balances designed by the Framers in 1787 in Philadelphia; Whereas the Representatives elected to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress comprise the most diverse class in American history with respect to its racial, ethnic, and religious composition, and also includes the largest contingent of female Representatives and the most Members ever of the LGBTQ community; Whereas among the cohort of the 40 Representatives first elected to the Congress in the November 2018 election are several whose membership is historic, including the Representative for the 7th District of Massachusetts, the first African-American woman elected from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the Representative from the 13th District of Michigan, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress; the Representative from the 14th District of New York, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress; and the Representative from the 5th District of Minnesota, the first Somali-American elected to Congress; Whereas in the discharge of their official duties as Members of Congress, the aforementioned Representatives traveled to the southern border of the United States to observe the living conditions and treatment received by migrants and refugees seeking asylum in the United States who are currently being held in detention facilities, some consisting of nothing more than tent villages cordoned off under highways; Whereas the migrants and refugees being detained sought refuge in the United States for the same reasons as the tens of millions who came before them, in this century and the last, from this continent and from every other and from all corners of the globe