,,iv  #aafth ,,congress  #b;d ,session  
,h4 ,,res4 #abgj  ,,in ,,the ,,house    
,,of ,,representatives  ,december #ah1  
#bjbj,ms4 ,gabbard submitted the        
following resolution2 which was referred
 to the ,committee on ,foreign ,affairs 
,,resolution  ,expressing the sense of  
the ,house of ,representatives that no  
taxpayer dollars will be used to enact  
sanctions that inflict suffering on     
civilian populations4  ,whereas         
sanctions are an instrument of          
modern-day economic warfare1 designed to
 inflict punishment on foreign          
populations by impeding the ability of  
those populations to access the basic   
necessities required for a decent life1 
such as food1 medicine1 hygiene and     
sanitary supplies1 and fuel2 ,whereas   
the aim of sanctions is often to        
forcibly engineer regime change in      
foreign nations by inflicting maximum   
suffering on civilian populations in the
 hopes they will turn against their own 
government2 ,whereas the true victims of

 sanctions are innocent civilians       
subjected to collective punishment for  
the sins1 real or perceived1 of their   
governments2 ,whereas sanctions have    
accelerated migrant crises around the   
world1 undermining stability everywhere 
from ,europe1 to the ,middle ,east1 to  
,south ,america1 by exacerbating the    
harsh conditions which give civilians no
 choice but to flee their homelands2    
,whereas the policy of punishing        
innocent civilians with cruel and       
counter-productive sanctions in the     
midst of a global pandemic has impeded  
the ability of civilian populations to  
obtain the medical1 nutritional1        
hygienic resources needed to curtail the
 spread of ,,covid-#ai1 which1 given the
 transmissibility of the virus across   
national borders1 ultimately harms the  
,united ,states2 ,whereas the human toll
 in the countries targeted by the most  
draconian sanctions policies have caused
 immense suffering on vulnerable        
populations1 including women1 children1 

and the elderly2 ,whereas ,former       
,secretary of ,state ,madeleine         
,albright once opined that the price was
 worth it to impose devastating         
sanctions on ,iraq1 even as she         
acknowledged that the price was the     
deaths of hundreds of thousands of      
,iraqi children1 and a further worsening
 of diplomatic relations that culminated
 in the disastrous ,u4,s4 invasion and  
occupation just a few years later2 and  
,whereas public discussion of sanctions 
is too often impersonal and abstract1   
obscuring the devastating impact of this
 policy1 and neglecting that the        
end-result is vulnerable populations    
like women and children freezing and    
starving to death3 ,now1 therefore1 be  
it ,that it is the sense of the ,united 
,states ,house of ,representatives that 
no taxpayer dollars1 government         
personnel or equipment shall be used to 
enact sanctions that inflict suffering  
on civilian populations by interfering  
with their ability to access food1      

electricity1 power1 clothing1 medicine1 
medical care1 transportation1 financial 
transactions1 supplies1 or other basic  
human needs required for day-to-day     
survival4