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[H. Res. 488 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                  House Calendar No. 88
115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 488

                          [Report No. 115-335]

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General 
     to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of 
                  Investigation Director James Comey.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2017

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself and Ms. Jayapal) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                           September 28, 2017

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Nadler, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
Mr. Cohen, Mr. Evans, Mr. McEachin, Ms. Lee, Mr. Welch, Mr. Schneider, 
   Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. 
 Sherman, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. 
 Smith of Washington, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Ted 
                  Lieu of California, and Mr. Ellison

                           September 28, 2017

 Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar, 
                       and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General 
     to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of 
                  Investigation Director James Comey.

    Resolved,  That the President is requested, and Attorney General of 
the United States is directed, to transmit, respectively (in a manner 
appropriate to classified information, if the President or Attorney 
General determines appropriate), to the House of Representatives, not 
later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, 
copies of any document, record, audio recording, memo, correspondence, 
or other communication in their possessions, or any portion of any such 
communication, that refers or relates to the following:
        <DELETED>    (1) The firing of Director James B. Comey of the 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) The participation of Attorney General 
        Jefferson Sessions in the removal of Director Comey.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) The scope or application of Attorney General 
        Sessions' recusal from ``any existing or future investigations 
        of any matters in any way related to the campaigns for 
        President of the United States''.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) The application of Attorney General Sessions' 
        recusal to the removal of Director Comey.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) The scope or application of executive 
        privilege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of 
        Attorney General Sessions before the Senate Select Committee on 
        Intelligence.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) President Donald J. Trump's statement, 
        communicated via Twitter on May 12, 2017, at 8:26 a.m.: ``James 
        Comey better hope that there are no `tapes' of our 
        conversations before he starts leaking to the 
        press!''.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) Any system used by the White House to secretly 
        record conversations between President Trump and Director 
        Comey.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meeting 
        between President Trump and Director Comey.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) Any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul 
        Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had with the Department of 
        Justice or the Federal Bureau of Investigation that relates to 
        their June 9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat 
        Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any 
        criminal law with respect to that June 9, 2016, meeting, 
        including any analysis of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 
        1971, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 
        1917 as it may pertain to a Federal campaign's attempt to 
        obtain information that ``would incriminate Hillary'' from a 
        foreign government.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (11) The disposition or review of any application 
        for a security clearance submitted by White House advisor Jared 
        Kushner or Attorney General Sessions.</DELETED>
That the President is requested, and Attorney General of the United 
States is directed, to transmit, respectively (in a manner appropriate 
to classified information, if the President or Attorney General 
determines appropriate), to the House of Representatives, not later 
than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, copies 
of any document, record, audio recording, memo, correspondence, or 
other communication in their possessions, or any portion of any such 
communication, that refers or relates to the following:
            (1) The removal of James B. Comey from his position as the 
        director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
            (2) The participation of Attorney General Jefferson 
        Sessions in the removal of Director Comey.
            (3) The scope or application of Attorney General Sessions' 
        recusal from ``any existing or future investigations of any 
        matters in any way related to the campaigns for President of 
        the United States''.
            (4) The application of Attorney General Sessions' recusal 
        to the removal of Director Comey.
            (5) The scope or application of executive privilege as 
        applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of Attorney General 
        Sessions before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
            (6) President Donald J. Trump's statement, communicated via 
        Twitter on May 12, 2017, at 8:26 a.m.: ``James Comey better 
        hope that there are no `tapes' of our conversations before he 
        starts leaking to the press!''.
            (7) Any system used by the White House to secretly record 
        conversations between President Trump and Director Comey.
            (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meeting between 
        President Trump and Director Comey.
            (9) Any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or 
        Jared Kushner may have had with the Department of Justice or 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation that relates to their June 
        9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, 
        and Irakly Kaveladze.
            (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any criminal 
        law with respect to that June 9, 2016, meeting, including any 
        analysis of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the 
        Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as 
        it may pertain to a Federal campaign's attempt to obtain 
        information that ``would incriminate Hillary'' from a foreign 
        government.
            (11) The disposition or review of any application for a 
        security clearance submitted by White House advisor Jared 
        Kushner or Attorney General Sessions.
                                                  House Calendar No. 88

115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 488

                          [Report No. 115-335]

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                               RESOLUTION

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General 
     to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of 
                  Investigation Director James Comey.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 28, 2017

 Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar, 
                       and ordered to be printed