; Whereas Executive Order No. 14078 (relating to bolstering efforts to bring hostages and wrongfully detained United States nationals home), issued on July 19, 2022, declared a national emergency to address the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the wrongful detention and hostage-taking of United States citizens and other persons abroad; and Whereas, since 1980, the United States has utilized military force at least ten times for the rescue or attempted rescue of United States citizens and other persons held hostage overseas: Now, therefore, be it