IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 78 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President in consultation with 
the Department of the Treasury should apply economic sanctions against 
Chinese businesses and state-owned enterprises that can be linked to 
cyberattacks against United States entities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. FORBES) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President in con-
sultation with the Department of the Treasury should 
apply economic sanctions against Chinese businesses and 
state-owned 
enterprises 
that 
can 
be 
linked 
to 
cyberattacks against United States entities. 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
and 
the 
People’s 
Liberation 
Army 
have 
used 
cyberweapons against the United States in a deliberate, 
government-developed strategy to steal intellectual prop-
erty and gain a strategic advantage; 
Whereas in 2009, China’s People’s Liberation Army siphoned 
sensitive details on the F–35 fighter jet by compromising 
Lockheed Martin’s computer network; 
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Whereas in December 2011, Chinese hackers compromised 
computer networks of the United States Chamber of 
Commerce; 
Whereas a 2012 Defense Science Board report identified doz-
ens of critical system designs compromised by Chinese 
cyber actors, including the Patriot Advanced Capability- 
3 air defense system, the F–35 and the F/A–18 fighter 
aircraft, the P–8A reconnaissance aircraft, the Global 
Hawk UAV, the Black Hawk helicopter, the Aegis Bal-
listic Missile Defense System, and the Littoral Combat 
Ship; 
Whereas the report also revealed Chinese cyber actors have 
obtained information on various Department of Defense 
technologies, including directed energy, the UAV video 
system, tactical data links, satellite communications, elec-
tronic warfare systems, and the electromagnetic aircraft 
launch system; 
Whereas in January 2013, the Wall Street Journal, the 
Washington Post, the New York Times, and Twitter re-
ported that Chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated their 
computer systems over the preceding months beginning 
at least in September 2012; 
Whereas, on May 19, 2014, the Department of Justice in-
dicted 5 Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, 
economic espionage and other offenses directed at 6 
United States victims in the United States nuclear 
power, metals, and solar products industries; 
Whereas in March 2014, Chinese hackers breached the 
United States Office of Personnel Management obtaining 
extensive information relating to security clearances of 
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22,000,000 United States military and civilian personnel 
across the country; and 
Whereas, on April 1, 2015, the President of the United 
States signed an Executive order finding that ‘‘the in-
creasing prevalence and severity of malicious cyber-en-
abled activities originating from, or directed by persons 
located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the 
United States constitute an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and econ-
omy of the United States’’, declaring ‘‘a national emer-
gency to deal with this threat’’, and sanctioning the prop-
erty and interests of those determined ‘‘to be responsible 
for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indi-
rectly, cyber-enabled activities originating from, or di-
rected by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, 
outside the United States that are reasonably likely to re-
sult in, or have materially contributed to, a significant 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, or eco-
nomic health or financial stability of the United States.’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the 
President should apply punitive economic sanctions to Chi-
nese businesses and state-owned enterprises as a result of 
documented Chinese cyberattacks against United States 
entities in order to punish and deter such actions and 
strengthen the United States cybersecurity. 
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