Whereas the regime of Nicolás Maduro is undertaking efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections for Venezuela’s National Assembly in December 2020 that will not comply with international standards for free, fair, and transparent electoral processes; Whereas the Maduro regime is seeking to use fraudulent legislative elections to undermine Venezuela’s sitting democratically elected National Assembly; Whereas, as codified under section 112 of the VERDAD Act of 2019 ( 22 U.S.C. 9702 ), it is the policy of the United States to recognize the democratically elected National Assembly of Venezuela, elected in December 2015 and sworn in on January 2016, as the only legitimate national legislative body in Venezuela; Whereas the United States Government and members of the international community have rightly denounced the Maduro regime’s efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections in December 2020; Whereas, on October 21, 2020, at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, member states—including The Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, Uruguay, and Venezuela—joined the United States in adopting a resolution concerning the lack of minimum democratic conditions to guarantee free, fair, and transparent elections in Venezuela that rejects interference in the functioning of political parties by the illegitimate Maduro regime and urges the call as promptly as possible, of free, fair, transparent, and legitimate presidential elections