[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 682 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 682

 Expressing the sense of the Senate by condemning the handling of the 
  2019 Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, calling for the Department of 
Justice to initiate an investigation and prosecution of the matter, and 
declaring the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by the House of 
                   Representatives lacks legitimacy.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 20, 2026

  Mr. Scott of Florida submitted the following resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate by condemning the handling of the 
  2019 Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint, calling for the Department of 
Justice to initiate an investigation and prosecution of the matter, and 
declaring the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by the House of 
                   Representatives lacks legitimacy.

Whereas, on April 13, 2026, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard 
        declassified and released documents and transcripts revealing serious 
        procedural failures and concealments in the handling of the August 2019 
        whistleblower complaint regarding President Trump's July 25, 2019, 
        telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky;
Whereas the complaint, which was filed by an analyst of the Central Intelligence 
        Agency who had no firsthand knowledge of the aforementioned telephone 
        call, relied entirely on second- and third-hand accounts, with key 
        witnesses admitting the alleged quid pro quo was ``clear only in 
        hindsight'' and required ``reading between the lines'';
Whereas, although the whistleblower self-disclosed significant potential biases, 
        including registration as a member of the Democratic Party, close 
        professional work with then-Vice President Joe Biden on Ukraine matters 
        (including travel to Ukraine with Vice President Biden and participation 
        in discussions on Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko's 
        corruption), and personal grievances stemming from his service on the 
        National Security Council during the first Trump presidency, former 
        Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson 
        redacted or concealed these deeper conflicts from investigators from the 
        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
        Representatives during his testimony on 2019 in which he disclosed only 
        limited information;
Whereas the whistleblower admitted to misleading investigators about prior 
        contacts with Democratic staff of the Permanent Select Committee on 
        Intelligence of the House of Representatives and requested that the 
        complaint be hidden from Republican members of the committee;
Whereas, in 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden publicly boasted of withholding 
        $1,000,000,000 in United States loan guarantees to pressure Ukraine into 
        firing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, an action that occurred while 
        Biden's son Hunter served on the board of Burisma Holdings, raising 
        legitimate questions about potential conflicts of interest that the 
        whistleblower's complaint sought to shield from scrutiny;
Whereas these concealed biases, procedural irregularities, and reliance on 
        unsubstantiated claims formed the very basis of the 2019 impeachment 
        proceedings, which resulted in the impeachment of President Trump by the 
        House of Representatives on December 18, 2019: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns the concealment of material bias information 
        and the use of a flawed complaint to initiate impeachment 
        proceedings against a sitting President;
            (2) calls upon the Department of Justice to promptly 
        initiate a thorough, independent investigation into the 
        handling of the 2019 Ukraine whistleblower complaint, including 
        potential violations related to false statements, improper 
        redactions, abuse of the whistleblower process, and 
        coordination with congressional staff;
            (3) urges the Attorney General to pursue appropriate 
        criminal prosecutions to the extent warranted by the evidence, 
        consistent with the rule of law and without regard to political 
        affiliation, to restore public confidence in the integrity of 
        the intelligence community and congressional oversight;
            (4) declares that the 2019 impeachment of President Donald 
        J. Trump by the House of Representatives, which was predicated 
        on a concealed and deficient complaint, lacks legitimacy and 
        the facts and circumstances upon which Articles of Impeachment 
        were based neither met the burden of proving that President 
        Trump committed ``high Crimes and Misdemeanors'' nor 
        established that President Trump engaged in ``insurrection of 
        rebellion against the United States''; and
            (5) commends Director of National Intelligence Tulsi 
        Gabbard for her transparency and accountability in 
        declassifying these materials and sharing the truth with the 
        American people.
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