IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 877 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding many of 
today’s greatest national security challenges and outlining a new frame-
work for foreign policy for the 21st century. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 19, 2022 
Ms. JAYAPAL (for herself, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. CARSON, 
Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. JACOBS of California, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. 
OMAR, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. 
TLAIB, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Ways and 
Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regard-
ing many of today’s greatest national security challenges 
and outlining a new framework for foreign policy for 
the 21st century. 
Whereas the national security challenges facing people in the 
United States this century include— 
(1) the spread of infectious diseases and global 
pandemics; 
(2) the climate crisis; 
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(3) the proliferation and threat of use of nuclear 
weapons and materials; 
(4) human rights violations; 
(5) corruption, conflict, and violence; 
(6) authoritarianism and distrust in democratic in-
stitutions undermined by disinformation; 
(7) gender, economic, and social inequality; and 
(8) transnational White supremacist violence and 
racist nationalism; 
Whereas such national security challenges are highlighted by 
the facts that— 
(1) a year and a half after the World Health Orga-
nization declared COVID–19 a global pandemic, just 
3.07 percent of people in low-income countries had re-
ceived 1 or more doses of a vaccine while 60.18 percent 
of people in wealthy countries had; 
(2) in 2020, natural disasters, worsened by climate 
change, displaced more than 30,700,000 people from 
their homes; 
(3) the United Nations estimates that about 10 per-
cent of people suffer from hunger worldwide; 
(4) the total amount authorized to be appropriated 
by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 
2021 is $740,500,000,000; 
(5) 9 countries hold more than 13,000 nuclear war-
heads and military stockpiles worldwide are on the rise; 
and 
(6) about 900,000 military personnel, contractors, 
opposition combatants, humanitarian aid workers, jour-
nalists, national and military police, and other civilians 
have been killed in United States wars in Iraq, Afghani-
stan, Syria, Pakistan, and other major war zones since 
2001; 
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Whereas these challenges cannot be primarily solved through 
the use of military force or Department of Defense budg-
et increases; and 
Whereas refocusing United States national security strategy 
on these issues requires robust new investments in non-
military tools of statecraft, as well as domestic and inter-
national institutions that rely on dialogue, inclusivity, ac-
countability, conflict resolution, and global cooperation 
over competition: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) it should be the policy of the United 
States— 
(A) to prioritize mitigating and, where pos-
sible, resolving the harms created by the secu-
rity challenges outlined in the preamble to this 
resolution by— 
(i) supporting robust investments in 
diplomacy, development, justice, human 
rights, and conflict prevention; 
(ii) putting local leadership and part-
nership at the center of policy design, de-
velopment, and implementation; and 
(iii) using both bilateral and multilat-
eral relationships and United States influ-
ence to uphold human rights and human 
dignity; 
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(B) to acknowledge that United States na-
tional interests are aligned with the well-being 
and rights of people around the world by plac-
ing human dignity, social justice, and coopera-
tion at the center of United States foreign pol-
icy; 
(C) to implement effective, bold, and im-
mediate domestic and multilateral responses to 
climate change in order to adapt, mitigate, pre-
vent, and, where possible, reverse the worst ef-
fects of this urgent, existential crisis this dec-
ade and to provide refuge to those impacted; 
(D) to focus domestic and international in-
vestments on equitable and inclusive, people- 
centered solutions that empower individuals, 
workers, and communities, and safeguard uni-
versal human rights to equality, migration, and 
human security; and 
(E) to support the United Nations, includ-
ing funding its programs and specialized agen-
cies, participating in its committees, and sup-
porting reforms to make international institu-
tions more responsive to the most pressing 
needs of the global community, including the 
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global migration crisis, the climate crisis, and 
global health crises; and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that to address the national security priorities 
outlined in the preamble and achieve the policy de-
scribed in paragraph (1), United States foreign pol-
icy must be reformed by— 
(A) making the United States national se-
curity workforce more diverse, equitable, and 
inclusive, both in terms of representation of his-
torically marginalized groups as well as under-
represented prodiplomacy and anti-interven-
tionist perspectives; 
(B) creating formal and informal processes 
to ensure United States foreign policy is regu-
larly informed by, and responsive to, the exper-
tise, experiences, and needs of communities 
most directly impacted by United States foreign 
policy, especially marginalized groups such as 
poor people, racial, religious and ethnic minori-
ties, indigenous people, women, people with dis-
abilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and youth; 
(C) democratizing issues of war and peace 
in the United States by reasserting article I of 
the Constitution, which puts the decision to go 
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to war solely in the hands of the legislative 
branch, the branch of government most ac-
countable to people in the United States; 
(D) substantially reducing and bringing ac-
countability to wasteful Department of Defense 
spending, outdated weapons systems, security 
assistance, and overt and covert regime change 
policies that fuel conflict; 
(E) engaging in diplomacy, peacebuilding, 
and conflict prevention to address violent 
groups that perpetrate terrorism rather than 
the existing framework predicated on high-value 
assassinations, containment, coercion, torture, 
and abuse; 
(F) ending the use of broad-based, sectoral 
sanctions as a punitive tool short of war, which 
too often feeds authoritarianism and corruption 
while disproportionately harming the most vul-
nerable; 
(G) holding the United States Government 
and its partners accountable to international 
law, including the law of armed conflict and 
international arms treaties, and supporting 
international criminal justice, conducting inde-
pendent investigations of suspected violations, 
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and providing reparations, including ex gratia 
payments, to survivors when it or a partner 
fails to do so; 
(H) limiting United States military assist-
ance, arms sales, and security sector coopera-
tion for governments that commit grand corrup-
tion, gross violations of human rights, crimes 
against humanity, or genocide, regardless of 
their political relationship to the United States 
Government; 
(I) acceding to and supporting universal 
implementation of international conventions and 
treaties that uphold the rule of law, promote 
universal human rights and human dignity, pro-
tect the most vulnerable, and democratize inter-
national governance; 
(J) recommitting United States resources 
and capacity-building to international and bilat-
eral nonproliferation, arms control, and disar-
mament treaties to work toward a world with-
out planet-destroying nuclear weapons; 
(K) devoting adequate resources toward, 
and aligning United States policy with, the pur-
suit of equitable, sustainable global develop-
ment, including but not limited to the achieve-
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ment of the United Nations Sustainable Devel-
opment Goals; 
(L) ensuring that the rules of international 
trade and investment, in the form of multilat-
eral and bilateral trade agreements and inter-
national bodies governing trade, enshrine the 
right to collectively organize, protect labor 
rights and the environment, promote gender 
equality, public health, and anticorruption con-
trols over corporate profits; 
(M) building a more just and equitable 
global economy by combating illicit financial 
flows, strengthening measures for global cor-
porate accountability, and reforming multilat-
eral economic development and lending institu-
tions so that the interests of workers, women 
and children, as well as their reproductive free-
dom, the environment, and poor people are 
prioritized over private and corporate interests 
and profits; 
(N) adopting an aggressive plan to trans-
form the United States and global economy 
away from dependency on militarism and fossil 
fuels and to create the solutions needed to com-
bat the climate crisis while centering workers 
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displaced from those industries in a just transi-
tion into jobs in the climate resilience work-
force; and 
(O) advancing global reproductive and gen-
der justice by ensuring United States foreign 
policy and foreign assistance programs uphold 
all people’s reproductive rights and access to 
comprehensive reproductive health care, and by 
prioritizing women’s meaningful participation in 
United States foreign policy, through securing 
their positions within United States-influenced 
peace processes, devoting increased resources to 
grassroots women-led groups advancing social 
justice, and supporting women human rights 
defenders. 
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