Title: Expressing the sense of Congress that the International Criminal Court should immediately proceed with prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin with war crimes should any harm befall Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a result of actions taken or directed by any Russian entity or authority.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the International Criminal Court should immediately proceed with prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin with war crimes should any harm befall Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a result of actions taken or directed by any Russian entity or authority.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 76 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 76

Expressing the sense of Congress that the International Criminal Court 
should immediately proceed with prosecuting Russian President Vladimir 
   Putin with war crimes should any harm befall Ukrainian President 
  Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a result of actions taken or directed by any 
                      Russian entity or authority.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2022

Mr. Burgess (for himself, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Carson, Mr. 
Quigley, Mr. Harris, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
   Fitzpatrick, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Upton, Mr. Brooks, Mr. 
Crenshaw, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Johnson 
of Louisiana, Mr. Steube, Mr. Costa, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
Arrington, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Brady, 
Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Moore of 
Alabama, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Carey, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. 
 Lamborn, Mr. Comer, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Norman, 
and Mr. Wenstrup) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the International Criminal Court 
should immediately proceed with prosecuting Russian President Vladimir 
   Putin with war crimes should any harm befall Ukrainian President 
  Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a result of actions taken or directed by any 
                      Russian entity or authority.

Whereas, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a large-scale air, land, and sea 
        attack on the independent and democratic state of Ukraine;
Whereas, on February 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, 
        ``According to the information we have, the enemy has marked me as 
        target No. 1, my family as target No. 2. They want to destroy Ukraine 
        politically by destroying the head of state.'';
Whereas President Zelenskyy has remained in Ukraine to fight with Ukrainians 
        against the Russian invasion;
Whereas President Putin has called Ukraine's democratically elected Government 
        drug addicts and neo-Nazis;
Whereas Vladimir Putin is serving his fourth term as President of Russia and 
        could potentially serve until 2036;
Whereas Russian state entities have been linked to the poisoning of several 
        political dissidents and Russian enemies;
Whereas these poisonings include Ukrainian Presidential candidate Viktor 
        Yuschenko in 2004, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2004, former 
        Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Alexander Litvinenko in 
        2006, former Russian FSB officer Sergey Skripal in 2018, and Russian 
        opposition leader Alexey Navalny in 2020;
Whereas, on February 28, 2022, the International Criminal Court stated it would 
        open a formal investigation into Russia's invasion of Ukraine;
Whereas International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan stated, ``I am 
        satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to believe that both alleged 
        war crimes against humanity have been committed in Ukraine . . .'';
Whereas the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes the 
        Court's jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity 
        and war crimes, and the crime of aggression; and
Whereas, on February 20, 2014, Ukraine made a declaration accepting jurisdiction 
        of the International Criminal Court on an open-ended basis: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the International Criminal Court 
should immediately proceed with prosecuting Russian President Vladimir 
Putin with war crimes should any harm befall Ukrainian President 
Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a result of actions taken or directed by any 
Russian entity or authority.
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