IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 172 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government 
of the Russian Federation, its officials, security services, and any person 
or entity within the Russian Federation or associated with the Russian 
Government, should not interfere, seek to influence, or engage in coercion 
designed to create an outcome in foreign elections. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2017 
Mr. CICILLINE (for himself and Mr. ROSKAM) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Government of the Russian Federation, its officials, 
security services, and any person or entity within the 
Russian Federation or associated with the Russian Gov-
ernment, should not interfere, seek to influence, or en-
gage in coercion designed to create an outcome in foreign 
elections. 
Whereas the unanimous conclusion of 17 agencies comprising 
the intelligence community of the United States con-
cluded in a report, parts of which were declassified and 
released on January 6, 2017, that the Government of the 
Russian Federation interfered in the elections for public 
office held in the United States in 2016; 
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Whereas the Director of National Intelligence, James Clap-
per, testified before Congress on January 5, 2017, on the 
topic of Russian hacking and said, ‘‘Russia also has used 
cyber tactics and techniques to seek to influence public 
opinion across Europe and Eurasia.’’; 
Whereas Congress instructed the intelligence community in 
2016 to undertake an investigation into whether Russian 
security services were funding parties and charities with-
in Europe with the intent of damaging democratic norms, 
weakening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alli-
ance, and supporting extremist and pro-Russia can-
didates for elected office; 
Whereas in the run-up to Ukrainian parliamentary elections 
in 2014, hackers associated with Russia launched an at-
tack on Ukraine’s Central Election Commission website 
with a denial of service attack and a separate attempt to 
falsify voting results, according to Ukrainian officials; 
Whereas Germany’s intelligence agency reported that Russian 
hackers broke into Bundestag computers and servers in 
2015, and stole documents that were subsequently pub-
lished on Wikileaks; 
Whereas Bulgarian officials reported that a group linked to 
Russia hacked Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission 
during their referendum and local elections in 2015; 
Whereas French newspaper Le Monde and officials from the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) re-
ported in 2016 that OSCE’s IT networks were com-
promised in a major hack attributed by intelligence agen-
cies to a Russian-linked group; 
Whereas Italian officials confirmed that a sustained attack 
against its foreign ministry’s computer and IT systems in 
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2016 was likely conducted by hackers associated with 
Russia; 
Whereas the Russian government ‘‘troll army’’ used social 
media to disseminate misleading or false news coverage 
produced by Russian Government English-language news 
outlets RT and Sputnik to support the ‘‘Exit’’ campaign 
during the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the 
European Union; 
Whereas Norwegian officials reported in February 2017 that 
nine personal civil servant email accounts had been tar-
geted by hackers in ‘‘spear-phishing’’ attacks believed to 
be connected to Russian intelligence; 
Whereas in January 2017 the head of France’s National 
Agency for the Security of Information Systems warned 
that the 2017 French Presidential elections were at risk 
of being influenced by hacking, leaks of information, and 
other foreign interference strategies; and 
Whereas Albania, Armenia, the Czech Republic, Finland, 
France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Lichtenstein, the 
Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Ser-
bia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom have federal or 
local elections scheduled in 2017, including Presidential 
elections in France, Germany, Serbia, and Slovenia: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the Russian Federation has engaged in a 
widespread hacking and misinformation campaign in 
order to influence politics and elections in democ-
racies throughout Europe; 
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