; Whereas, in April of 2014, the same month that Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. traveled to Ukraine, Robert Hunter Biden, joined the board of Burisma Holdings; Whereas press reports indicate that Burisma Holdings paid more than $3,400,000 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC and that Robert Hunter Biden personally received compensation of up to $50,000 per month in his role relating to Burisma Holdings, despite having little to no experience that would be relevant in the natural gas industry; Whereas press reports indicate that Robert Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma Holdings allowed Burisma to create the perception that it was backed by powerful Americans at a time when Ukraine was especially dependent on aid and strategic backing from the United States and its allies ; Whereas press reports indicate that Robert Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings during the period when Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was actively working on Ukrainian natural gas policy prompted concerns from State Department and other Obama Administration officials and that such concerns were communicated to Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Whereas the Prosecutor General of Ukraine’s duty under the Ukrainian political system is among other things to prosecute on behalf of the state; Whereas it appears that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office had been investigating Burisma Holdings and Mr. Zlochevsky in 2014; Whereas, in 2014, facing criminal allegations of misconduct by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, press reports indicate that Mr. Zlochevsky fled Ukraine; Whereas by his own account, in 2016 Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the United States would withhold $1,000,000,000 in United States loan guarantees if he did not immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin; Whereas given the fragile state of the Ukrainian economy, withholding of United States assistance likely would have sent Ukraine into insolvency