; Whereas, on June 6, 2017, while on foreign soil, President Trump criticized former President Obama, saying, The thing I have to mention is that Barack Obama when he was President found out about this in terms of if it were Russia, found out about it in August, now the election was in November, that’s a lot of time he did nothing about it. Why did he do nothing about it? He was told it was Russia by the CIA as I understand it . . . I think what happened was that he thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election and he said let’s not do anything about it. ; Whereas President Obama issued repeated warnings to Russian officials, including a direct warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin, approved a cyberwarfare campaign against Russia, and expelled Russian diplomats from the United States; Whereas, on July 9, 2017, President Trump tweeted, Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded … ; Whereas President Trump has not empaneled a commission to investigate Russian interference with the 2016 United States Presidential election, but has empaneled a commission to investigate unfounded claims that there were as many as 5,000,000 fraudulent votes in the United States Presidential election, which President Trump has claimed cost him the popular vote; Whereas, on June 29, 2017, the United States Senate passed S. 722, the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017, which included sanctions on Russia, by a vote of 98–2; Whereas President Trump’s administration has sought changes to S. 722 to make it more friendly to Russia