Whereas the unanimous conclusion of 17 agencies comprising the intelligence community of the United States concluded in a report, parts of which were declassified and released on January 6, 2017, that the Government of the Russian Federation interfered in the elections for public office held in the United States in 2016; Whereas the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified before Congress on January 5, 2017, on the topic of Russian hacking and said, Russia also has used cyber tactics and techniques to seek to influence public opinion across Europe and Eurasia. ; Whereas Congress instructed the intelligence community in 2016 to undertake an investigation into whether Russian security services were funding parties and charities within Europe with the intent of damaging democratic norms, weakening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance, and supporting extremist and pro-Russia candidates for elected office; Whereas in the run-up to Ukrainian parliamentary elections in 2014, hackers associated with Russia launched an attack on Ukraine’s Central Election Commission website with a denial of service attack and a separate attempt to falsify voting results, according to Ukrainian officials; Whereas Germany’s intelligence agency reported that Russian hackers broke into Bundestag computers and servers in 2015, and stole documents that were subsequently published on Wikileaks; Whereas Bulgarian officials reported that a group linked to Russia hacked Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission during their referendum and local elections in 2015; Whereas French newspaper Le Monde and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) reported in 2016 that OSCE’s IT networks were compromised in a major hack attributed by intelligence agencies to a Russian-linked group; Whereas Italian officials confirmed that a sustained attack against its foreign ministry’s computer and IT systems in 2016 was likely conducted by hackers associated with Russia