[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 437 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 437

 Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of California's 
                      30th Congressional District.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2023

Mrs. Luna submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                          Committee on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of California's 
                      30th Congressional District.

Whereas the allegation that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal 
        the 2016 Presidential election has been revealed as false by numerous 
        in-depth investigations, including the recent report by Special Counsel 
        John Durham, which documents how the conspiracy theory was invented, 
        funded, and spread by President's Trump's political rivals;
Whereas Representative Adam Schiff, who served as ranking minority member and 
        then Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
        House of Representatives (HPSCI), occupied positions of extreme trust, 
        affording him access to sensitive intelligence unavailable to most 
        Members of Congress;
Whereas for years Representative Schiff abused this trust by citing evidence of 
        collusion that--as is clear from reports by Special Counsel Robert 
        Mueller, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and 
        Special Counsel Durham--does not exist;
Whereas by repeatedly telling these falsehoods, Representative Schiff purposely 
        deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people;
Whereas Representative Schiff lent credibility to the Steele dossier--a 
        collection of debunked collusion accusations funded by President Trump's 
        political rivals--by reading false Steele allegations into the 
        Congressional Record at a HPSCI hearing on March 20, 2017;
Whereas, once again abusing his privileged access to classified information, 
        Representative Schiff composed a false memo justifying the Foreign 
        Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application on Trump 
        associate Carter Page, which Inspector General Horowitz later found was 
        riddled with 17 major mistakes and omissions, provoking FISA Court 
        Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to state unequivocally that the Federal 
        Bureau of Investigation ``mislead the FISC'';
Whereas by publicly smearing Carter Page as a Russian collaborator and 
        justifying spurious investigations of him, Representative Schiff 
        contributed to the gross violation of a United States citizen's civil 
        liberties, thereby committing the very abuses HPSCI is tasked with 
        identifying and thwarting;
Whereas, as HPSCI ranking minority member and Chairman, Representative Schiff 
        behaved dishonestly and dishonorably on many other occasions, including 
        by falsely denying that his staff coordinated with a whistleblower to 
        launch the first impeachment of President Trump;
Whereas, as part of his impeachment efforts, during an HPSCI hearing on 
        September 26, 2019, Representative Schiff recited a false, concocted 
        rendition of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian 
        President Volodymyr Zelensky;
Whereas Representative Schiff exploited his positions on HPSCI to encourage and 
        excuse abusive intelligence investigations of Americans for political 
        purposes;
Whereas Representative Schiff used his position and access to sensitive 
        information to instigate a fraudulently based investigation, which he 
        then used to amass political gain and fundraising dollars; and
Whereas the American taxpayers paid $32 million to fund the investigation into 
        collusion that was launched as a result of Rep. Schiff's lies, 
        misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) the House of Representatives censures and condemns Adam 
        Schiff, Representative of California's 30th Congressional 
        District, for conduct that misleads the American people in a 
        way that is not befitting an elected Member of the House of 
        Representatives;
            (2) Representative Adam Schiff will forthwith present 
        himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the 
        pronouncement of censure;
            (3) Representative Adam Schiff will be censured with the 
        public reading of this resolution by the Speaker; and
            (4) Representative Adam Schiff be, and is hereby, fined in 
        the amount of $16,000,000.
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