IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1409 
Standing in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and condemning Nicola´s 
Maduro’s attempt to steal the Venezuelan Presidential election. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 2, 2024 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. WILSON of 
Florida, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. SOTO, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, 
Mr. WALTZ, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Ms. SALAZAR, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCOR-
MICK, Mr. MAST, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. MOONEY, Ms. 
TITUS, Mrs. GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, Mr. COSTA, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. GOLD-
MAN of New York, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. 
SCHNEIDER, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. KIM 
of New Jersey, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mrs. TORRES of Cali-
fornia, Ms. MANNING, and Mr. RESCHENTHALER) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs 
RESOLUTION 
Standing in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and con-
demning Nicola´s Maduro’s attempt to steal the Ven-
ezuelan Presidential election. 
Whereas, on July 28, 2024, more than 11,000,000 Ven-
ezuelans turned out to vote in the Venezuelan Presi-
dential election; 
Whereas this election was preceded by over a decade of vio-
lent repression and persecution of political opponents, 
elimination of checks and balances, capture of state insti-
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•HRES 1409 IH 
tutions, extrajudicial murder, arbitrary detention and tor-
ture, curtailed freedom of expression and the press, and 
systematic abuse of power by Nicola´s Maduro and his re-
gime; 
Whereas the vast majority of the more than 8,000,000 Ven-
ezuelan citizens who have fled Venezuela under Maduro’s 
reign were denied their right to vote in this election due 
to excessive and arbitrary legal requirements to register; 
Whereas opposition leaders Marı´a Corina Machado and 
Corina Yoris were banned from running for President by 
the regime-controlled supreme court despite Machado 
winning the opposition Presidential primary with over 90 
percent of the vote; 
Whereas the Maduro regime barred several groups of inde-
pendent electoral observers from entering the country to 
monitor the election; 
Whereas the Maduro regime has arbitrarily detained, force-
fully disappeared, or forced into exile thousands of oppo-
sition political organizers, activists, human rights defend-
ers, and others perceived to be critical of Maduro’s illegit-
imate rule in Venezuela; 
Whereas, according to Foro Penal, the Maduro regime cur-
rently holds more than 270 political prisoners and has 
conducted over 15,000 politically motivated arbitrary ar-
rests over the last decade in Venezuela; 
Whereas Nicola´s Maduro stated prior to the election that he 
had no intention of accepting defeat or providing for a 
peaceful transition of power; 
Whereas the United States determined that these arbitrary 
and unconstitutional actions by the Maduro regime vio-
lated the terms of the Barbados Agreement, which pro-
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•HRES 1409 IH 
vided for certain electoral conditions to be met and was 
signed by the regime and the opposition democratic Uni-
tary Platform; 
Whereas despite these conditions rendering the election nei-
ther free nor fair, Edmundo Gonza´lez Urrutia stepped 
forward to represent the opposition in the election for 
President in order to provide an alternative to Maduro’s 
tyranny; 
Whereas, according to the opposition, official tally sheets 
from 24,384 voting centers in Venezuela, representing 
81.21 percent of the total estimated vote count, were col-
lected by observers; 
Whereas the results from these tally sheets appear to dem-
onstrate an overwhelming victory for Gonza´lez, who re-
ceived 7,119,768 votes or 67 percent of the total, over 
Maduro, who received only 3,225,819 votes or 30 percent 
of the total; 
Whereas the margin of victory for Gonza´lez is such that the 
remaining 18.79 percent of uncounted votes would not be 
sufficient to reverse the result; 
Whereas the regime-controlled National Electoral Council re-
fused to reveal the votes and instead announced that 
Maduro had prevailed in the election while failing to an-
nounce disaggregated results by polling station; 
Whereas the announced results are not evidenced with any 
electoral data and appear to represent a blatant electoral 
fraud at the behest of Maduro; 
Whereas hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who gathered 
to peacefully protest the Maduro regime’s attempt to 
steal the election were met with arbitrary force and vio-
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•HRES 1409 IH 
lent repression that has left hundreds arrested, at least 
16 dead, and hundreds injured; 
Whereas the Maduro regime has issued arrest warrants for 
Marı´a Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonza´lez on false 
criminal charges; and 
Whereas the United States was joined by 16 Latin American 
and Caribbean nations, the European Union, and several 
other democratic governments in raising concerns about 
this apparent electoral fraud, requesting the release of 
full, transparent, and detailed voting data, and demand-
ing that the Maduro regime honor the will of the Ven-
ezuelan people: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes Edmundo Gonza´lez Urrutia as 
the President-elect of Venezuela; 
(2) expresses solidarity with the Venezuelan 
people and Venezuelan Americans in their aspira-
tions for a democratic future for Venezuela; 
(3) commends Venezuela’s pro-democracy oppo-
sition movement for their pursuit of a peaceful tran-
sition of power through electoral means despite the 
regime’s actions over the last year that rendered the 
election neither free nor fair; 
(4) condemns the Maduro regime’s cowardly 
and destructive attempt to steal the election and un-
dermine the will of the Venezuelan people; 
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•HRES 1409 IH 
(5) denounces the Maduro regime’s violent re-
pression of Venezuelans peacefully demonstrating in 
support of democracy; 
(6) affirms that the will of the voters must be 
respected and a peaceful transition of power initi-
ated; 
(7) calls for the imposition of new sanctions on 
the Maduro regime as well as sanctions targeting in-
dividuals and entities involved in subverting democ-
racy and repressing the opposition, including foreign 
governments and non-state entities assisting the re-
gime’s election subversion and repression; and 
(8) calls on the United States Government and 
all democratic nations to reject Maduro’s fraudulent 
claim of victory and employ all available diplomatic 
and economic means to pressure the Maduro regime 
to honor the true election results. 
Æ 
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