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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1273 

To direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit an assessment 

of the intentions of the political leadership of the Russian Federation, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 14, 2019 

Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI (for himself and Mr. STEWART) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To direct the Director of National Intelligence to submit 

an assessment of the intentions of the political leadership 

of the Russian Federation, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keeping Russian En5 trapments Minimal and Limiting Intelligence Networks 

6 Act’’ or the ‘‘KREMLIN Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) Russia continues to engage in information 

4 warfare and political interference in the West, in5 cluding by undermining democratic systems and ex6 ploiting economic and ethnic tensions within member 

7 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 

8 (2) Such activities constitute a threat to the 

9 United States and to its allies. 

10 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

11 It is the sense of Congress that— 

12 (1) the Countering America’s Adversaries 

13 Through Sanctions Act (Public Law 115–44) was an 

14 appropriate response to Russia’s— 

15 (A) meddling in the 2016 United States 

16 presidential election; 

17 (B) continued aggression in the Ukraine 

18 and the Crimea region; and 

19 (C) support for the Assad regime in Syria; 

20 (2) the United States should sustain its newly 

21 deployed enhanced forward presence in Poland, Lith22 uania, and Estonia and urge Canada, the United 

23 Kingdom, and Germany to quickly deploy and sus24 tain parallel commitments in those countries; 

25 (3) the United States has defensive intentions 

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1 tary posture in Europe, and does not seek to threat2 en Russian territory; and 

3 (4) the United States does not seek to be an 

4 enemy of the Russian people and propaganda di5 rected against the United States by President Vladi6 mir Putin misrepresents the intentions of the United 

7 States for the purposes of preserving his power. 

8 SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT FOR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT. 

9 Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact10 ment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence 

11 shall submit to the House Permanent Select Committee 

12 on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intel13 ligence an assessment, which may be submitted in classi14 fied form, based on intelligence obtained from all sources 

15 regarding the current intentions of the political leadership 

16 of the Russian Federation, with respect to the following: 

17 (1) Russian leadership intentions in pursuing 

18 military scenarios against members of the North At19 lantic Treaty Organization, including conduct of an 

20 exercise on the border with Moldova of more than 

21 100,000 Russian forces in August 2017. 

22 (2) Russian leadership reactions to the Euro23 pean Reassurance Initiative. 


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1 (3) Potential areas of cooperation between the 

2 Government of the Russian Federation and the gov3 ernments of its Western adversaries. 

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