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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hres" measure-number="987" measure-id="id117hres987" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2022-03-16" update-date="2022-09-12">
        <title>Expressing gratitude on behalf of the people of the United States to the journalists and news staff who are risking injury and death, are subject to grave threat, and have sacrificed their lives, to chronicle and report on the ongoing war in Ukraine resulting from Putin's invasion.</title>
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            <action-date>2022-03-16</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p>This resolution expresses that the House of Representatives</p> <ul> <li>declares its gratitude on behalf of the people of the United States to the journalists and news staff who continue to put themselves in harm's way to report on the humanitarian crisis and ongoing war on the ground in Ukraine following Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine; and</li> <li>honors the contributions of journalists and news staff reporting from the war in Ukraine as essential in the ongoing struggle for the rights of a free press and free speech internationally, pivotal in pushing back against false propaganda by tyrants, and crucial to informing Americans and the world of the horrors being wrought against the Ukrainian people.</li> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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