IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1014 
Accepting and strongly supporting the assessment of the intelligence commu-
nity with respect to Russian Federation interference in the 2016 Presi-
dential election and calling on the President of the United States to 
rescind the invitation to President Vladimir Putin, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2018 
Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. BASS, Mrs. WATSON COLE-
MAN, Ms. LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. 
SHEA-PORTER, Mr. DOGGETT, and Mr. KILDEE) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Perma-
nent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Accepting and strongly supporting the assessment of the 
intelligence community with respect to Russian Federa-
tion interference in the 2016 Presidential election and 
calling on the President of the United States to rescind 
the invitation to President Vladimir Putin, and for other 
purposes. 
Whereas, on July 16, 2018, the President of the United 
States and the President of the Russian Federation 
Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki, Finland to discuss mat-
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ters of mutual interest and global importance to the safe-
ty and peace of the world; 
Whereas at this meeting the President of the United States 
failed to confront President Putin or hold him account-
able for actions undertaken by Russian military intel-
ligence officers and others at the behest of President 
Putin for the express purpose of securing victory in the 
2016 United States Presidential election for his preferred 
Presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump; 
Whereas there was compelling reason for the President of the 
United States to confront President Putin because the 
Intelligence Community Assessment (‘‘ICA’’) of January 
2017 concluded that— 
(1) Russian efforts to influence the 2016 United 
States Presidential election represented the most recent 
expression of the Russian Government’s longstanding ob-
jective to undermine the United States-led Western Alli-
ance and international democratic order; and 
(2) these activities demonstrated a significant esca-
lation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort 
compared to previous operations; 
Whereas the ICA also assessed that President Putin ordered 
an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the United 
States Presidential election with the goal of— 
(1) undermining public faith in the United States 
democratic process; 
(2) denigrating Democratic Presidential candidate 
and implacable foe of President Putin, former Secretary 
of State Hillary Clinton; and 
(3) facilitating the election of President Putin’s pre-
ferred candidate, Donald J. Trump; 
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Whereas the ICA also assessed that President Putin and the 
Russian Government conspired to help elect Republican 
Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump by means of a 
disinformation campaign to turn public opinion against 
the campaign of Democratic Presidential candidate Hil-
lary Clinton; 
Whereas Russian interference in the election processes of 
democratic countries is not new but instead a continu-
ation of the ‘‘Translator Project’’, an ongoing informa-
tion warfare effort launched by President Putin in 2014 
to use social media to manipulate public opinion and vot-
ers in western democracies; 
Whereas President Putin and the Russian Government have 
committed truly despicable acts for many years, including 
the occupation of Georgia, the imprisonment and killing 
of journalists, the use of chemical weapons on the soil of 
Great Britain, and the destruction of a passenger airliner 
which killed 298 innocent civilians; 
Whereas prior to the July 2018 meeting in Helsinki, Finland, 
Americans have become increasingly concerned regarding 
the cozy relationship between the President of the United 
States and the leader of its most formidable adversary, 
President Putin, whose actions or conduct the President 
of the United States has found no reason to criticize or 
condemn, notwithstanding his well-documented propen-
sity to attack, criticize, and disrespect other persons at 
will, from the leaders of America’s most stalwart allies to 
private citizens he dislikes; 
Whereas the Department of Justice has secured an indict-
ment charging 12 Russian military intelligence officers 
with theft of property belonging to the Democratic Na-
tional Committee, the Clinton Presidential campaign, and 
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the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 
through means of cyber intrusion or computer ‘‘hacking’’; 
Whereas The New York Times and other publications have 
reported that officials and operatives of the Trump Presi-
dential campaign met with agents of the Russian Federa-
tion for the purpose of obtaining or benefitting from in-
formation stolen by the Russian military intelligence per-
sons to be used to damage the Presidential campaign of 
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton; 
Whereas it has been reported that at least 12 Trump cam-
paign associates had contacts with Russians during the 
2016 campaign or the ensuing transition, with at least 19 
face-to-face interactions with Russians or Kremlin-linked 
figures and at least 51 individual communications; 
Whereas Trump campaign aides known to have had contact 
with Russians include the President’s son-in-law and ad-
viser, Jared Kushner, his son Donald J. Trump Jr., 
former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Attor-
ney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, and Trump 
campaign chairman Paul Manafort; 
Whereas according to the Washington Post, the President of 
the United States ‘‘has asked his advisers about his 
power to pardon aides, family members and even himself 
in connection with [Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s] 
probe’’; 
Whereas instead of supporting the unanimous assessment of 
the Intelligence Community, the President of the United 
States has sought to attack, discredit, and undermine the 
agencies and officials responsible for detecting and as-
sessing Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential 
election as well as the law enforcement officials respon-
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sible for investigating and bringing to justice the con-
spirators who committed crimes against the United 
States; 
Whereas at the meeting in Helsinki, Finland, rather than em-
bracing the conclusions of the Intelligence Community, 
the President of the United States sided with President 
Putin in heaping scorn on the ICA regarding Russian in-
terference and called Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s in-
vestigation into Russia’s interference ‘‘the greatest polit-
ical witch hunt in history’’; 
Whereas President Putin stated that in order for him to per-
mit the Special Counsel to question the 12 Russian mili-
tary intelligence agents indicted for conspiracy to defraud 
the United States the United States must reciprocate by 
making available for interrogation by Russian authorities 
a former United States Ambassador to Russia and 11 
other persons, an offensive suggestion that the President 
of the United States nonetheless characterized favorably 
as an ‘‘incredible offer’’; and 
Whereas the President of the United States, in the aftermath 
of the humiliating debacle in Helsinki, has invited Presi-
dent Putin to come to the United States for another set 
of secret meetings at the White House: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) accepts and strongly supports the assess-
ment of the Intelligence Community that agents and 
entities of or allied with the Government of the Rus-
sian Federation conspired to interfere, and did inter-
fere, with the 2016 Presidential election, acting 
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under the direction and with the approval of Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin, for the purpose of facilitating 
the election of their preferred Presidential candidate, 
Donald J. Trump; and 
(2) calls upon the President of the United 
States to rescind the invitation to President Vladi-
mir Putin unless and until the 12 indicted Russian 
military intelligence agents submit to the jurisdiction 
of the federal courts of the United States. 
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