[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 220 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 220

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
 the failure of the Executive to take care that the laws be faithfully 
                               executed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 4, 1997

Mr. Barr of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Graham, 
    Mr. Solomon, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. 
Kingston, Mrs. Cubin, and Mrs. Linda Smith of Washington) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
 the failure of the Executive to take care that the laws be faithfully 
                               executed.

    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the refusal of the Attorney General to seek application 
        for an independent counsel pursuant to a request for the same 
        from the majority of the members of the House Committee on the 
        Judiciary in letters dated March 12, 1997, and September 3, 
        1997, has undermined the confidence of Congress in the 
        effectiveness of Federal law enforcement in those 
        investigations; and
            (2) the failure to send to the Senate a nomination for the 
        now vacant office of Assistant Attorney General for the 
        Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, while allowing 
        the functions of that Assistant Attorney General to be carried 
        out by a person acting in apparent violation of the Vacancies 
        Act, has resulted in the absence of prosecutors accountable to 
        Congress as well as the Executive with respect to criminal-law-
        related investigations of Executive branch officials;
            (3) this pattern of conduct constitutes a failure to take 
        care that the laws be faithfully executed.
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