Support legislation directing the President to preserve and catalogue evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine for future prosecutions.

Introduced the Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act , which directs the President to preserve and catalogue evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine to be used in war crimes prosecution.

He says he introduced a bill to preserve evidence of Russian war crimes for prosecution.

Foreign Affairs & National Security | Senator Cornyn
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Congress.gov summarizes H.R.7276 as requiring the President to report to Congress on atrocities committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including U.S. government efforts to collect, analyze, and preserve evidence related to war crimes and other atrocities and processes for courts or tribunals to obtain U.S. government information.

This official bill summary matches the promise's substance: legislation directing presidential reporting on U.S. evidence collection, analysis, preservation, and use for prosecutions related to Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The standalone bill passed the House and was placed on the Senate calendar, but did not itself become law.

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Congress.gov - H.R.7276, Ukraine Invasion War Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act
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Congress.gov lists H.R.7776, the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, as a related bill to H.R.7276 and shows that H.R.7776 became Public Law No. 117-263 on December 23, 2022.

The war-crimes evidence reporting legislation was incorporated or carried through related NDAA legislation that became law, supporting delivery rather than only an attempted standalone bill.

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Congress.gov - Related Bills for H.R.7276
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Congress.gov records that H.R.7776 became Public Law No. 117-263 on December 23, 2022. It also records the Senate resolving-differences vote on December 15, 2022 as 83-11, Record Vote Number 396.

The relevant NDAA became law during Cornyn's Senate term, providing the enacted vehicle for the Ukraine war-crimes evidence reporting requirement.

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Congress.gov - H.R.7776, James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
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The Senate roll call for the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R.7776 shows Vote Result: Motion Agreed to, YEAs 83, NAYs 11. In the alphabetical list and Texas delegation listing, Cornyn (R-TX) is recorded as Yea.

Cornyn supported final Senate passage of the enacted NDAA vehicle that carried the related Ukraine war-crimes evidence reporting legislation.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 117th Congress, 2nd Session, Vote 396
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Public Law 117-263 includes a Ukraine atrocities reporting provision requiring the President to submit to Congress a report on U.S. government efforts to collect, analyze, and preserve evidence and information related to war crimes and other atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022.

The enacted public law contains the core requirement promised: presidential reporting on preserving and organizing evidence of Russian war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine for accountability processes.

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GovInfo - Public Law 117-263, James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
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