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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5791 

To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy for United States 

involvement in Ukraine. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 

Mr. DAVIDSON (for himself, Mr. OGLES, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. MILLS, Mr. ZINKE, 

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. 

SANTOS, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. BIGGS, 

Mr. MILLER of Ohio, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. BENTZ, Mr. NORMAN, 

Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mrs. HARSHBARGER, 

Mr. GAETZ, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. MASSIE, Mr. HERN, Mr. BOST, Mr. MAST, Mr. 

CLOUD, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, and 

Mr. JACKSON of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To require a comprehensive report that contains a strategy 

for United States involvement in Ukraine. 

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 ‘‘Define the Mission 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REPORT. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 

3 date of the enactment of this Act, the President, in coordi4 nation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 

5 of State, shall develop and submit to Congress a com6 prehensive report that contains a strategy for United 

7 States involvement in Ukraine. 

8 (b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 

9 (a) shall— 

10 (1) define the United States national interests 

11 at stake with respect to the conflict between the 

12 Russian Federation and Ukraine; 

13 (2) identify specific objectives the President be14 lieves must be achieved in Ukraine in order to pro15 tect the United States national interests defined in 

16 paragraph (1), and for each objective— 

17 (A) an estimate of the amount of time re18 quired to achieve the objective, with an expla19 nation; 

20 (B) benchmarks to be used by the Presi21 dent to determine whether an objective has been 

22 met, is in the progress of being met, or cannot 

23 be met in the time estimated to be required in 

24 subparagraph (A); and 


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1 (C) estimates of the amount of resources, 

2 including United States personnel, materiel, 

3 and funding, required to achieve the objective; 

4 (3) list the expected contribution for security 

5 assistance made by European member countries of 

6 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization within the 

7 next fiscal year; and 

8 (4) provide an assessment of the impact of the 

9 Russian Federation’s dominance of the natural gas 

10 market in Europe on the ability to resolve the ongo11 ing conflict with Ukraine. 

12 (c) REQUIREMENTS FOR STRATEGY.—The strategy 

13 included in the report required by subsection (a)— 

14 (1) shall be designed to achieve a cease-fire in 

15 which the Russian Federation and Ukraine agree to 

16 abide by the terms and conditions of such cease-fire; 

17 and 

18 (2) may not be contingent on United States in19 volvement of funding of Ukrainian reconstruction. 

20 (d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a)— 

21 (1) shall be submitted in an unclassified form; 

22 and 

23 (2) shall include a classified annex if necessary 

24 to provide the most holistic picture of information to 

25 Congress as required under this section. 


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1 (e) CONGRESS DEFINED.—In this section, the term 

2 ‘‘Congress’’ means— 

3 (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the 

4 Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep5 resentatives; 

6 (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the 

7 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and 

8 (3) any Member of Congress upon request. 

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