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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 fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on In-
telligence, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keeping Russian En-
trapments Minimal and Limiting Intelligence Networks 
Act’’ or the ‘‘KREMLIN Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Russia continues to engage in information 
warfare and political interference in the West, in-
cluding by undermining democratic systems and ex-
ploiting economic and ethnic tensions within member 
countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 
(2) Such activities constitute a threat to the 
United States and to its allies. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the Countering America’s Adversaries 
Through Sanctions Act (Public Law 115–44) was an 
appropriate response to Russia’s— 
(A) meddling in the 2016 United States 
presidential election; 
(B) continued aggression in the Ukraine 
and the Crimea region; and 
(C) support for the Assad regime in Syria; 
(2) the United States should sustain its newly 
deployed enhanced forward presence in Poland, Lith-
uania, and Estonia and urge Canada, the United 
Kingdom, and Germany to quickly deploy and sus-
tain parallel commitments in those countries; 
(3) the United States has defensive intentions 
in pursuing such sanctions and such enhanced mili-
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tary posture in Europe, and does not seek to threat-
en Russian territory; and 
(4) the United States does not seek to be an 
enemy of the Russian people and propaganda di-
rected against the United States by President Vladi-
mir Putin misrepresents the intentions of the United 
States for the purposes of preserving his power. 
SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT FOR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall submit to the House Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intel-
ligence an assessment, which may be submitted in classi-
fied form, based on intelligence obtained from all sources 
regarding the current intentions of the political leadership 
of the Russian Federation, with respect to the following: 
(1) Russian leadership intentions in pursuing 
military scenarios against members of the North At-
lantic Treaty Organization, including conduct of an 
exercise on the border with Moldova of more than 
100,000 Russian forces in August 2017. 
(2) Russian leadership reactions to the Euro-
pean Reassurance Initiative. 
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(3) Potential areas of cooperation between the 
Government of the Russian Federation and the gov-
ernments of its Western adversaries. 
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