; Whereas Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald J. Trump’s National Security Advisor, did a paid series of events in Moscow, including a speech and appearance at a party for RT, a Kremlin-funded TV station, where he was photographed sitting next to Vladimir Putin; Whereas Donald J. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, was a business partner of Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin, in a major financial project involving the Bank of Cyprus; Whereas Donald J. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, the former Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil, signed a multibillion dollar agreement with Russia in 2011 on behalf of ExxonMobil for an oil drilling project in the Arctic, which was brought to a halt in 2014 as a result of sanctions that were imposed on Russia in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, and moreover, Rex Tillerson was awarded the Order of Friendship by Vladimir Putin in 2013; Whereas the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued an Intelligence Community Assessment on January 6, 2017, the declassified version of which stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election, the goals of which were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. ; Whereas the declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment stated that the intelligence community has high confidence in this judgment; Whereas the declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment also stated, Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Donald J. Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. ; Whereas the declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment stated that the CIA and the FBI have high confidence in this judgment and the NSA has moderate confidence