; Whereas the IC report concluded that the Russian Federation will undoubtedly attempt to meddle in and influence future United States elections and elections of United States allies; Whereas despite the Russian Federation’s status as an adversary and its attack on our democracy, Trump campaign officials and members of the Trump Administration have established or maintained well known and publicly documented ties with people close to President Putin; Whereas such ties include— (1) Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who provided misleading testimony for his Senate confirmation hearings with respect to at least twice meeting with Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in 2016; (2) former Assistant to the President for National Security, Michael Flynn, who was compelled to resign just weeks into his tenure because he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Ambassador Kislyak, and who also failed to disclose a $33,750 payment from RT, for a speech in Moscow in 2015, and a $11,250 payment from Kaspersky Lab, a company suspected of having ties with the Russian intelligence services and later caught up in a Russian espionage investigation, for a speech in 2015; (3) Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who received over $12,000,000 from former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in his work as a political consultant in Kiev, and who reportedly signed a $10,000,000 annual contract with Russian business magnate and Putin ally, Oleg Depripaska, saying he would influence American politics, business, and news, in a pro-Russia manner; (4) Trump campaign national security advisor J.D. Gordon, who directly advocated for a change in the 2016 Republican Party platform to include more pro-Russia and less pro-Ukraine policies, and who met with Ambassador Kislyak, telling him he would like to improve United States-Russia relations