Whereas Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist born on October 13, 1958, who was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey on October 2, 2018; Whereas Mr. Khashoggi wrote for and edited a number of publications, including the Washington Post, Al Watan, Arab News, and Al Madina; Whereas, during his career, Mr. Khashoggi covered events in Afghanistan, Algeria, Kuwait, and across the Middle East; Whereas Mr. Khashoggi represented a rare example of a journalist in Saudi Arabia by questioning regime policies and covering unfavorable events; Whereas Mr. Khashoggi became a champion of American values, including democracy, freedom of the press, and women’s rights; Whereas Mr. Khashoggi openly questioned the Saudi regime’s policies, including its war in Yemen, crackdown on dissenters, and isolation of Qatar; Whereas voicing differences with Saudi Arabia’s rulers forced Mr. Khashoggi to flee Saudi Arabia; Whereas Mr. Khashoggi became a permanent resident of the United States in June 2017 and began writing for the Washington Post in September 2017; Whereas the Saudi regime targeted Mr. Khashoggi and his writings by marshaling a host of online trolls to delegitimize and harass Mr. Khashoggi and other Saudi dissidents; Whereas Saudi officials lured Mr. Khashoggi to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul under a false sense of security; Whereas upon arrival Mr. Khashoggi was tortured, killed, and dismembered by Saudi agents flown in from Saudi Arabia for this purpose; Whereas the Saudi regime subsequently engaged in a weeks-long campaign of obfuscation, deception, and lying to deny Saudi involvement in Mr. Khashoggi’s murder; Whereas, when confronted with clear evidence of Mr. Khashoggi’s death at the hands of Saudi agents, Saudi officials blamed the murder on rogue operators within its Government; Whereas the Trump administration subsequently sanctioned only relatively junior Saudi officials, many of whom had been identified as culpable by the Saudi regime