IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 599 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to United 
States policy towards Yemen, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 1, 2017 
Mr. KHANNA (for himself and Mr. MCGOVERN) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with 
respect to United States policy towards Yemen, and for 
other purposes. 
Whereas the United States has longstanding strategic inter-
ests in promoting security and stability in the Arabian 
Peninsula; 
Whereas the United States has a strategic partnership with 
the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in-
cluding Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; 
Whereas in 2014, after years of violence and insurgency, Ira-
nian-supported Houthi rebels seized the Yemeni capital 
city of Sana’a, deposing the legitimate, internationally 
recognized Government of Yemen and further desta-
bilizing Yemen and the region; 
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Whereas the Saudi-led Arab Coalition launched a military 
intervention in 2015 against the Houthi-Saleh alliance in 
response to the deposition of the legitimate Government 
of Yemen and Houthi-Saleh territorial gains in and 
around the port of Aden; 
Whereas the United States has longstanding strategic inter-
ests in Yemen, including ensuring freedom of navigation 
at the Bab al Mandab strait and countering the threats 
from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Al- 
Qaeda franchises, and the Yemen affiliate of the Islamic 
State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS); 
Whereas al-Qaeda was responsible for the bombing of the 
USS Cole in Aden, Yemen, in October 2000, which killed 
17 United States sailors, and for multiple successful and 
unsuccessful terrorist attacks internationally; 
Whereas in April 2015, the United Nations Security Council 
adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 
2216 by 14 affirmative votes to none against, with one 
abstention (by the Russian Federation), imposing sanc-
tions on individuals undermining the stability of Yemen, 
and demanded that the Houthis withdraw from all areas 
seized during the latest conflict, relinquish arms seized 
from military and security institutions, cease all actions 
falling exclusively within the authority of the legitimate 
Government of Yemen and fully implement previous Se-
curity Council resolutions; 
Whereas Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has 
transferred increasingly sophisticated weapons systems to 
the Houthis, who have in turn shot missiles into Saudi 
Arabia from positions in northern Yemen; 
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Whereas in addition to weapons, Iran is reportedly providing 
Afghan and Shi’ite Arab specialists to train Houthi units 
and act as logistical advisers; 
Whereas the Iranian-supported Houthis have attacked coali-
tion or coalition-affiliated maritime targets multiple 
times, an American ship twice, and other shipping, forc-
ing the United States to respond with a combination of 
diplomacy and calibrated military strikes against three 
radar facilities in Houthi-controlled territory; 
Whereas the United States has participated in intelligence co-
operation since 2015 and, pursuant to a cross-servicing 
agreement, has provided midair refueling services to 
Saudi-led Arab Coalition warplanes conducting aerial 
bombings in Yemen against the Houthi-Saleh alliance, Al 
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and in support 
of freedom of navigation threatened by Iranian-backed 
Houthi forces; 
Whereas, according to the United Nations Office of the High 
Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 10,000 Yemeni 
civilians have been killed in this conflict since 2015; 
Whereas the Saudi-led Arab Coalition has worked to improve 
their targeting processes and capabilities aimed at reduc-
ing unintended civilian casualties, and convened a Joint 
Incident Assessment Team to investigate the coalition’s 
adherence to the laws of armed conflict; 
Whereas the war in Yemen has contributed to a humani-
tarian crisis in Yemen, leading to an April 2017 an-
nouncement by the World Food Program that Yemen is 
on the brink of ‘‘full-scale famine’’, with approximately 
7,000,000 Yemenis, including 2,200,000 children, being 
classified as ‘‘severely food insecure’’; 
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