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Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and other State 
Department positions that are vital to our Nation’s secu-
rity; 
Whereas, on January 27, 2017, President Trump issued an 
Executive order that banned nationals from seven Mus-
lim-majority countries from entering the United States 
for at least 90 days, banned admission of all refugees for 
four months, indefinitely blocked refugees from Syria, 
and contained language prioritizing the admission of non- 
Muslims from majority Muslim nations; 
Whereas, on January 31, 2017, Homeland Security Secretary 
John Kelly said, ‘‘This is not a travel ban . . . This is 
not—I repeat, not—a ban on Muslims . . .’’; 
Whereas, on January 31, 2017, White House Press Secretary 
Sean Spicer said, ‘‘First of all, it’s not a travel ban.’’; 
Whereas, on February 3, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge 
James Robart in the State of Washington blocked imple-
mentation of the travel ban nationwide; 
Whereas, on February 9, 2017, a three-judge panel of the 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against 
reinstating the travel ban; 
Whereas, on March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a re-
vised Executive order that removed Iraq from the list of 
nations from which immigration would be temporarily 
banned, and no longer contained language indefinitely 
banning Syrian refugees or calling for prioritized admis-
sion for non-Muslims fleeing majority Muslim nations; 
Whereas, on March 15, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Der-
rick Watson in the State of Hawaii blocked implementa-
tion of President Trump’s revised Executive order, noting 
that when Mr. Trump was asked during the Presidential 
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campaign if he was pulling back from a ‘‘Muslim ban’’, 
Mr. Trump said, ‘‘I don’t think it’s a rollback. In fact, 
you could say it’s an expansion. I’m looking now at terri-
tories. People were so upset when I used the word Mus-
lim. Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim. Remember this. 
And I’m okay with that, because I’m talking about terri-
tory instead of Muslim.’’; 
Whereas Judge Watson also noted that Senior White House 
Advisor Stephen Miller had told Fox News that the re-
vised Executive order would have the ‘‘same basic policy 
outcome for the country’’, and that Rudolph Giuliani had 
explained the origin of the original Executive order by 
saying, ‘‘When [Mr. Trump] first announced it, he said 
‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He said, ‘Put a commis-
sion together. Show me the right way to do it legally.’ ’’; 
Whereas, on May 25, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for 
the Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction block-
ing President Trump’s revised Executive order, saying it 
‘‘drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimina-
tion.’’; 
Whereas, on June 5, 2017, President Trump tweeted, ‘‘Peo-
ple, the lawyers and courts can call it whatever they 
want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, 
a TRAVEL BAN!’’; 
Whereas, on June 26, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed 
to hear a challenge by the Trump administration to rul-
ings blocking full implementation of the President’s re-
vised Executive order; 
Whereas, on June 29, 2017, President Trump tweeted, ‘‘I 
heard poorly rated @MorninglJoe speaks badly of me 
(don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy 
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Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came . . . to Mar-a-Lago 
3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted 
on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. 
I said no!’’; 
Whereas, in a February 4, 2017, tweet, President Trump re-
ferred to a Federal judge with whom he disagreed as a 
‘‘so-called judge’’; 
Whereas, in a May 9, 2017, President Trump referred to the 
United States Senate Minority Leader as ‘‘Cryin’ Chuck 
Schumer’’ in a tweet; 
Whereas, on April 28, 2017, President Trump referred to 
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren as ‘‘Poca-
hontas’’ in a speech to the National Rifle Association; 
Whereas President Trump has called press reports, ‘‘fake 
news’’ and in some instances his administration has pro-
hibited video recordings of White House press briefings; 
Whereas President Trump used Twitter to circulate a video 
of him violently wrestling a man covered by a CNN logo, 
which, according to the Reporters Committee on Freedom 
of the Press, was a ‘‘threat of physical violence against 
journalists . . . [and] beneath the office of the presi-
dency.’’; 
Whereas free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our de-
mocracy; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2017, the Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence detailed Russian efforts to influence 
the 2016 Presidential election, stating, ‘‘We assess Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence cam-
paign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election. 
Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. 
democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and 
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harm her electability and potential presidency. We fur-
ther assess Putin and the Russian Government developed 
a clear preference for President-elect Trump.’’; 
Whereas President Trump has refused to acknowledge, un-
equivocally, that Russia meddled in the 2016 Presidential 
election, saying, instead, things like ‘‘I think it very well 
could be Russia but I think it could very well have been 
other countries . . . I think a lot of people interfere.’’; 
Whereas, on June 6, 2017, while on foreign soil, President 
Trump criticized former President Obama, saying, ‘‘The 
thing I have to mention is that Barack Obama when he 
was President found out about this in terms of if it were 
Russia, found out about it in August, now the election 
was in November, that’s a lot of time he did nothing 
about it. Why did he do nothing about it? He was told 
it was Russia by the CIA as I understand it . . . I think 
what happened was that he thought that Hillary Clinton 
was going to win the election and he said let’s not do 
anything about it.’’; 
Whereas President Obama issued repeated warnings to Rus-
sian officials, including a direct warning to Russian 
President Vladimir Putin, approved a cyberwarfare cam-
paign against Russia, and expelled Russian diplomats 
from the United States; 
Whereas, on July 9, 2017, President Trump tweeted, ‘‘Putin 
& I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security 
unit so that election hacking, & many other negative 
things, will be guarded . . .’’; 
Whereas President Trump has not empaneled a commission 
to investigate Russian interference with the 2016 United 
States Presidential election, but has empaneled a com-
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mission to investigate unfounded claims that there were 
as many as 5,000,000 fraudulent votes in the United 
States Presidential election, which President Trump has 
claimed cost him the popular vote; 
Whereas, on June 29, 2017, the United States Senate passed 
S. 722, the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act 
of 2017, which included sanctions on Russia, by a vote 
of 98–2; 
Whereas President Trump’s administration has sought 
changes to S. 722 to make it more friendly to Russia; 
Whereas, on June 1, 2017, President Trump pulled out of 
the Paris Climate Agreement, a historic pact among 
nearly 200 parties, including Russia and China, to reduce 
emissions that raise global temperatures, put lives and 
property at risk, and imperil the planet upon which we 
live, and, Syria and Nicaragua were the only nations that 
did not sign the Paris Agreement, and Nicaragua ob-
jected because it felt the agreement did not go far 
enough; 
Whereas 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human 
activity has impacted climate change; 
Whereas, on May 28, 2017, after transatlantic meetings, Ger-
man Chancellor Angela Merkel concluded that President 
Trump was not the kind of traditionally reliable partner 
for Germany and Europe on whom they have been able 
to depend in the past, saying that traditional alliances 
were no longer as steadfast. Merkel stated that Europe 
should, ‘‘really take our fate into our own hands . . .’’ 
and said, ‘‘The times in which we could rely fully on oth-
ers—they are somewhat over.’’; 
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Whereas President Trump’s opposition to the Paris Climate 
Agreement put the United States at odds on climate 
change with the rest of the G–20 at its July 2017 meet-
ing in Hamburg, Germany; 
Whereas President Trump failed to secure an international 
agreement at the July 2017 G–20 meeting to counter the 
threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea; 
Whereas President Trump’s first cabinet appointments had 
the smallest percentage of women and nonwhites com-
bined than any since President Reagan; 
Whereas the gender pay gap at President Trump’s White 
House is more than double the national pay gap; 
Whereas, on January 21, 2017, President Trump’s spokes-
person said, ‘‘Photographs of the inaugural proceedings 
were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular 
Tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gath-
ered on the National Mall . . . That was the largest au-
dience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person 
and around the globe.’’; 
Whereas in support of his assertion about the inaugural 
crowd size, President Trump’s spokesperson said, ‘‘We 
know that 420,000 people used DC Metro public transit 
yesterday, which compares to 317,000 that it used for 
President Obama’s last inaugural’’, but transit officials 
said that 570,557 riders used the transit system on Jan-
uary 20, 2017, as compared with 1.1 million trips the 
day of President Obama’s first inauguration and 782,000 
trips the day of President Obama’s second inauguration; 
Whereas, on February 16, 2017, President Trump said his 
2016 election victory was, ‘‘the biggest electoral college 
win since Ronald Reagan’’; 
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Whereas Donald J. Trump received 304 electoral votes in 
2016; 
Whereas Barrack Obama received 332 electoral votes in 
2012, and 365 electoral votes in 2008; 
Whereas Bill Clinton received 379 electoral votes in 1996, 
and 370 electoral votes in 1992; 
Whereas George H. W. Bush received 426 electoral votes in 
1988; and 
Whereas when President Trump was presented with facts 
about the size of his predecessors’ electoral victory mar-
gins at a press conference on February 16, 2017, he re-
sponded, ‘‘I don’t know, I was given that information. I 
actually, I’ve seen that information around.’’: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) based on the conduct described in the pre-
amble, the House of Representatives has no con-
fidence that President Trump is faithfully executing 
the office of President of the United States; and 
(2) President Trump should— 
(A) release his tax returns; 
(B) place his private business assets in a 
blind trust or to divest from them; 
(C) donate to the United States Treasury, 
as he promised, any personal profit he has 
made from foreign patronage of hotels in which 
he has an ownership interest; 
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(D) refrain from taking any action that re-
sults in taxpayer money being spent on goods 
or services from businesses in which he has an 
ownership interest, such as Mar-a-Lago in Palm 
Beach, Florida, the Trump National Golf Club 
in Bedminster, New Jersey, and the Trump Na-
tional Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia; 
(E) seek congressional consent for any and 
all emoluments he has received from foreign 
countries; 
(F) refrain from using Twitter inappropri-
ately, including refraining from posting com-
ments that could adversely impact United 
States foreign policy; 
(G) support the First Amendment, support 
freedom of the press, refrain from calling re-
porting ‘‘fake news’’, refrain from posting video 
of himself wrestling with a press logo, and stop 
limiting full electronic press access to White 
House press briefings; 
(H) promote democracy, freedom of the 
press, and human rights in foreign policy; 
(I) unequivocally acknowledge that Russia 
interfered in the 2016 United States Presi-
dential election, and work to protect our elec-
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toral process from any future foreign inter-
ference; 
(J) refuse any offer to form any kind of 
cybersecurity unit with the Russian Government 
to purportedly protect the United States from 
election hacking; 
(K) respect the independence of our Na-
tion’s judicial branch; 
(L) respect Members of Congress and re-
frain from using derogatory nicknames for 
them; and 
(M) conduct United States foreign policy 
in a manner that reflects the United States tra-
ditional role as leader of the free world. 
Æ 
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