[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 660 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 660

 Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations 
 as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether 
 sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise 
its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the 
           United States of America, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 29, 2019

Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. 
Perlmutter, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Morelle, Ms. Shalala, and Mr. 
 DeSaulnier) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                         the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations 
 as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether 
 sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise 
its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the 
           United States of America, and for other purposes.

    Resolved, That the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and 
the Committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, 
Oversight and Reform, and Ways and Means, are directed to continue 
their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of 
Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the 
House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to 
impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America.

SEC. 2. OPEN AND TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATIVE PROCEEDINGS BY THE PERMANENT 
              SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE.

    For the purpose of continuing the investigation described in the 
first section of this resolution, the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence (referred to in this resolution as the ``Permanent Select 
Committee'') is authorized to conduct proceedings pursuant to this 
resolution as follows:
            (1) The chair of the Permanent Select Committee shall 
        designate an open hearing or hearings pursuant to this section.
            (2) Notwithstanding clause 2(j)(2) of rule XI of the Rules 
        of the House of Representatives, upon recognition by the chair 
        for such purpose under this paragraph during any hearing 
        designated pursuant to paragraph (1), the chair and ranking 
        minority member of the Permanent Select Committee shall be 
        permitted to question witnesses for equal specified periods of 
        longer than five minutes, as determined by the chair. The time 
        available for each period of questioning under this paragraph 
        shall be equal for the chair and the ranking minority member. 
        The chair may confer recognition for multiple periods of such 
        questioning, but each period of questioning shall not exceed 90 
        minutes in the aggregate. Only the chair and ranking minority 
        member, or a Permanent Select Committee employee if yielded to 
        by the chair or ranking minority member, may question witnesses 
        during such periods of questioning. At the conclusion of 
        questioning pursuant to this paragraph, the committee shall 
        proceed with questioning under the five-minute rule pursuant to 
        clause 2(j)(2)(A) of rule XI.
            (3) To allow for full evaluation of minority witness 
        requests, the ranking minority member may submit to the chair, 
        in writing, any requests for witness testimony relevant to the 
        investigation described in the first section of this resolution 
        within 72 hours after notice is given for the first hearing 
        designated pursuant to paragraph (1). Any such request shall be 
        accompanied by a detailed written justification of the 
        relevance of the testimony of each requested witness to the 
        investigation described in the first section of this 
        resolution.
            (4)(A) The ranking minority member of the Permanent Select 
        Committee is authorized, with the concurrence of the chair, to 
        require, as deemed necessary to the investigation--
                    (i) by subpoena or otherwise--
                            (I) the attendance and testimony of any 
                        person (including at a taking of a deposition); 
                        and
                            (II) the production of books, records, 
                        correspondence, memoranda, papers, and 
                        documents; and
                    (ii) by interrogatory, the furnishing of 
                information.
            (B) In the case that the chair declines to concur in a 
        proposed action of the ranking minority member pursuant to 
        subparagraph (A), the ranking minority member shall have the 
        right to refer to the committee for decision the question 
        whether such authority shall be so exercised and the chair 
        shall convene the committee promptly to render that decision, 
        subject to the notice procedures for a committee meeting under 
        clause 2(g)(3)(A) and (B) of rule XI.
            (C) Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be 
        signed by the ranking minority member, and may be served by any 
        person designated by the ranking minority member.
            (5) The chair is authorized to make publicly available in 
        electronic form the transcripts of depositions conducted by the 
        Permanent Select Committee in furtherance of the investigation 
        described in the first section of this resolution, with 
        appropriate redactions for classified and other sensitive 
        information.
            (6) The Permanent Select Committee is directed to issue a 
        report setting forth its findings and any recommendations and 
        appending any information and materials the Permanent Select 
        Committee may deem appropriate with respect to the 
        investigation described in the first section of this 
        resolution. The chair shall transmit such report and 
        appendices, along with any supplemental, minority, additional, 
        or dissenting views filed pursuant to clause 2(l) of rule XI, 
        to the Committee on the Judiciary and make such report publicly 
        available in electronic form, with appropriate redactions to 
        protect classified and other sensitive information. The report 
        required by this paragraph shall be prepared in consultation 
        with the chairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
        Committee on Oversight and Reform.

SEC. 3. TRANSMISSION OF ADDITIONAL MATERIALS.

    The chair of the Permanent Select Committee or the chair of any 
other committee having custody of records or other materials relating 
to the inquiry referenced in the first section of this resolution is 
authorized, in consultation with the ranking minority member, to 
transfer such records or materials to the Committee on the Judiciary.

SEC. 4. IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY PROCEDURES IN THE COMMITTEE ON THE 
              JUDICIARY.

    (a) The House authorizes the Committee on the Judiciary to conduct 
proceedings relating to the impeachment inquiry referenced in the first 
section of this resolution pursuant to the procedures submitted for 
printing in the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on 
Rules, including such procedures as to allow for the participation of 
the President and his counsel.
    (b) The Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to promulgate 
additional procedures as it deems necessary for the fair and efficient 
conduct of committee hearings held pursuant to this resolution, 
provided that the additional procedures are not inconsistent with the 
procedures referenced in subsection (a), the Rules of the Committee, 
and the Rules of the House.
    (c)(1) The ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
Judiciary is authorized, with the concurrence of the chair of the 
Committee on the Judiciary, to require, as deemed necessary to the 
investigation--
            (A) by subpoena or otherwise--
                    (i) the attendance and testimony of any person 
                (including at a taking of a deposition); and
                    (ii) the production of books, records, 
                correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents; and
            (B) by interrogatory, the furnishing of information.
    (2) In the case that the chair declines to concur in a proposed 
action of the ranking minority member pursuant to paragraph (1), the 
ranking minority member shall have the right to refer to the committee 
for decision the question whether such authority shall be so exercised 
and the chair shall convene the committee promptly to render that 
decision, subject to the notice procedures for a committee meeting 
under clause 2(g)(3)(A) and (B) of rule XI.
    (3) Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be signed by 
the ranking minority member, and may be served by any person designated 
by the ranking minority member.
    (d) The Committee on the Judiciary shall report to the House of 
Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other 
recommendations as it deems proper.
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