[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 637 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 637

 Censuring Vice President Richard B. Cheney for failing to respond to 
 requests for information concerning allegations that he and others in 
 the Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding 
     the decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated 
   intelligence information regarding the justification for the war, 
  countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of 
   persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against 
critics of the Administration and for failing to adequately account for 
           specific misstatements he made regarding the war.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2005

 Mr. Conyers submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Censuring Vice President Richard B. Cheney for failing to respond to 
 requests for information concerning allegations that he and others in 
 the Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding 
     the decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated 
   intelligence information regarding the justification for the war, 
  countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of 
   persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against 
critics of the Administration and for failing to adequately account for 
           specific misstatements he made regarding the war.

Whereas Vice President Richard B. Cheney has failed to respond to requests for 
        information concerning allegations that he and others in the 
        Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the 
        decision to go to war in Iraq (including failing to respond to a letter 
        from several Members of Congress, dated November 3, 2005, requesting 
        that he explain his involvement in the disclosure of the identity of 
        Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert Central Intelligence Agency operative), 
        misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the 
        justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and 
        degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate 
        retaliation against critics of the Administration; and
Whereas Vice President Richard B. Cheney has failed to account for or explain 
        misstatements he made in preparation for the United States military 
        invasion of Iraq, including--

    (1) his December 9, 2001, statement that the report that Mohammed Atta 
had met with the Iraq intelligence authorities in Prague in April 2001 had 
``been pretty well confirmed'', notwithstanding the fact that the Vice 
President repeatedly learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 
the Central Intelligence Agency both concluded that the meeting did not 
take place and the Vice President did not then withdraw his statement;

    (2) his August 26, 2002, statement the United States had learned that 
Iraq had resumed efforts to acquire nuclear weapons ``from first hand 
testimony from defectors, including Saddam's own son-in-law'', 
notwithstanding the fact that Saddam's son-in-law had been killed in 1996 
and United States officials had been briefed to the effect that the 
individual had not provided such first-hand testimony; and

    (3) his September 8, 2002, statement that we know ``with absolute 
certainty, that [Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire 
the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear 
weapon'', notwithstanding the fact that the Department of Defense, the 
Department of Energy, and the Department of State, as well as other 
credible intelligence sources, had contradicted his statement: Now, 
therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives does hereby censure 
Vice President Richard B. Cheney for--
            (1) failing to respond to requests for information 
        concerning allegations that he and others in the Administration 
        of President George W. Bush misled Congress and the American 
        people regarding the decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated 
        and manipulated intelligence information regarding the 
        justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, 
        inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and 
        permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of the 
        Administration; and
            (2) failing to adequately account for specific 
        misstatements the Vice President made regarding the war.
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