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[H. Res. 581 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 House Calendar No. 272
105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 581

                          [Report No. 105-795]

Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate 
    whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of William 
           Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 1998

 Mr. Hyde, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following 
resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate 
    whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of William 
           Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States.

    Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary, acting as a whole or 
by any subcommittee thereof appointed by the chairman for the purposes 
hereof and in accordance with the rules of the committee, is authorized 
and directed to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient 
grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its 
constitutional power to impeach William Jefferson Clinton, President of 
the United States of America. The committee shall report to the House 
of Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other 
recommendations as it deems proper.
    Sec. 2. (a) For the purpose of making such investigation, the 
committee is authorized to require--
            (1) by subpoena or otherwise--
                    (A) the attendance and testimony of any person 
                (including at a taking of a deposition by counsel for 
                the committee); and
                    (B) the production of such things; and
            (2) by interrogatory, the furnishing of such information;
as it deems necessary to such investigation.
    (b) Such authority of the committee may be exercised--
            (1) by the chairman and the ranking minority member acting 
        jointly, or, if either declines to act, by the other acting 
        alone, except that in the event either so declines, either 
        shall have the right to refer to the committee for decision the 
        question whether such authority shall be so exercised and the 
        committee shall be convened promptly to render that decision; 
        or
            (2) by the committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee.
Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be issued over the 
signature of the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member 
designated by either of them, and may be served by any person 
designated by the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member 
designated by either of them. The chairman, or ranking minority member, 
or any member designated by either of them (or, with respect to any 
deposition, answer to interrogatory, or affidavit, any person 
authorized by law to administer oaths) may administer oaths to any 
witness. For the purposes of this section, ``things'' includes, without 
limitation, books, records, correspondence, logs, journals, 
memorandums, papers, documents, writings, drawings, graphs, charts, 
photographs, reproductions, recordings, tapes, transcripts, printouts, 
data compilations from which information can be obtained (translated if 
necessary, through detection devices into reasonably usable form), 
tangible objects, and other things of any kind.




                                                 House Calendar No. 272

105th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                              H. RES. 581

                          [Report No. 105-795]

_______________________________________________________________________

                               RESOLUTION

Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate 
    whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of William 
           Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States.

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                            October 7, 1998

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed