IV 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1014 

Accepting and strongly supporting the assessment of the intelligence community with respect to Russian Federation interference in the 2016 Presidential election and calling on the President of the United States to 

rescind the invitation to President Vladimir Putin, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 23, 2018 

Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. BASS, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. 

SHEA-PORTER, Mr. DOGGETT, and Mr. KILDEE) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 

in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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 

RESOLUTION 

Accepting and strongly supporting the assessment of the 

intelligence community with respect to Russian Federation interference in the 2016 Presidential election and 

calling on the President of the United States to rescind 

the invitation to President Vladimir Putin, and for other 

purposes. 

Whereas, on July 16, 2018, the President of the United 

States and the President of the Russian Federation 

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ters of mutual interest and global importance to the safety and peace of the world; 

Whereas at this meeting the President of the United States 

failed to confront President Putin or hold him accountable for actions undertaken by Russian military intelligence officers and others at the behest of President 

Putin for the express purpose of securing victory in the 

2016 United States Presidential election for his preferred 

Presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump; 

Whereas there was compelling reason for the President of the 

United States to confront President Putin because the 

Intelligence Community Assessment (‘‘ICA’’) of January 

2017 concluded that— 

(1) Russian efforts to influence the 2016 United 

States Presidential election represented the most recent 

expression of the Russian Government’s longstanding objective to undermine the United States-led Western Alliance and international democratic order; and 

(2) these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort 

compared to previous operations; 

Whereas the ICA also assessed that President Putin ordered 

an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the United 

States Presidential election with the goal of— 

(1) undermining public faith in the United States 

democratic process; 

(2) denigrating Democratic Presidential candidate 

and implacable foe of President Putin, former Secretary 

of State Hillary Clinton; and 

(3) facilitating the election of President Putin’s preferred candidate, Donald J. Trump; 


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Whereas the ICA also assessed that President Putin and the 

Russian Government conspired to help elect Republican 

Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump by means of a 

disinformation campaign to turn public opinion against 

the campaign of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton; 

Whereas Russian interference in the election processes of 

democratic countries is not new but instead a continuation of the ‘‘Translator Project’’, an ongoing information warfare effort launched by President Putin in 2014 

to use social media to manipulate public opinion and voters in western democracies; 

Whereas President Putin and the Russian Government have 

committed truly despicable acts for many years, including 

the occupation of Georgia, the imprisonment and killing 

of journalists, the use of chemical weapons on the soil of 

Great Britain, and the destruction of a passenger airliner 

which killed 298 innocent civilians; 

Whereas prior to the July 2018 meeting in Helsinki, Finland, 

Americans have become increasingly concerned regarding 

the cozy relationship between the President of the United 

States and the leader of its most formidable adversary, 

President Putin, whose actions or conduct the President 

of the United States has found no reason to criticize or 

condemn, notwithstanding his well-documented propensity to attack, criticize, and disrespect other persons at 

will, from the leaders of America’s most stalwart allies to 

private citizens he dislikes; 

Whereas the Department of Justice has secured an indictment charging 12 Russian military intelligence officers 

with theft of property belonging to the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton Presidential campaign, and 


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the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 

through means of cyber intrusion or computer ‘‘hacking’’; 

Whereas The New York Times and other publications have 

reported that officials and operatives of the Trump Presidential campaign met with agents of the Russian Federation for the purpose of obtaining or benefitting from information stolen by the Russian military intelligence persons to be used to damage the Presidential campaign of 

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton; 

Whereas it has been reported that at least 12 Trump campaign associates had contacts with Russians during the 

2016 campaign or the ensuing transition, with at least 19 

face-to-face interactions with Russians or Kremlin-linked 

figures and at least 51 individual communications; 

Whereas Trump campaign aides known to have had contact 

with Russians include the President’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, his son Donald J. Trump Jr., 

former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, and Trump 

campaign chairman Paul Manafort; 

Whereas according to the Washington Post, the President of 

the United States ‘‘has asked his advisers about his 

power to pardon aides, family members and even himself 

in connection with [Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s] 

probe’’; 

Whereas instead of supporting the unanimous assessment of 

the Intelligence Community, the President of the United 

States has sought to attack, discredit, and undermine the 

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sible for investigating and bringing to justice the conspirators who committed crimes against the United 

States; 

Whereas at the meeting in Helsinki, Finland, rather than embracing the conclusions of the Intelligence Community, 

the President of the United States sided with President 

Putin in heaping scorn on the ICA regarding Russian interference and called Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference ‘‘the greatest political witch hunt in history’’; 

Whereas President Putin stated that in order for him to permit the Special Counsel to question the 12 Russian military intelligence agents indicted for conspiracy to defraud 

the United States the United States must reciprocate by 

making available for interrogation by Russian authorities 

a former United States Ambassador to Russia and 11 

other persons, an offensive suggestion that the President 

of the United States nonetheless characterized favorably 

as an ‘‘incredible offer’’; and 

Whereas the President of the United States, in the aftermath 

of the humiliating debacle in Helsinki, has invited President Putin to come to the United States for another set 

of secret meetings at the White House: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) accepts and strongly supports the assess3 ment of the Intelligence Community that agents and 

4 entities of or allied with the Government of the Rus5 sian Federation conspired to interfere, and did inter6 fere, with the 2016 Presidential election, acting 


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1 under the direction and with the approval of Presi2 dent Vladimir Putin, for the purpose of facilitating 

3 the election of their preferred Presidential candidate, 

4 Donald J. Trump; and 

5 (2) calls upon the President of the United 

6 States to rescind the invitation to President Vladi7 mir Putin unless and until the 12 indicted Russian 

8 military intelligence agents submit to the jurisdiction 

9 of the federal courts of the United States. 

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