[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 103 (Tuesday, June 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2821-H2822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   NOTICE OF INTENTION TO OFFER RESOLUTION RAISING A QUESTION OF THE 
                        PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE

  Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX, I seek 
recognition to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the 
privileges of the House.
  The form of the resolution is as follows:
  H. Res. 489, 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 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 an 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 misled 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 Zelenskyy;
  Whereas Representative Schiff exploited his positions on HPSCI to 
encourage and excuse abusive intelligence investigations of Americans 
for political purposes;

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  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;
  Whereas the American taxpayers paid $32 million to fund the 
investigation into collusion that was launched as a result of 
Representative Schiff's lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of 
sensitive information; and
  Whereas if it is determined by an investigation conducted by the 
Committee on Ethics that Representative Schiff lied, made 
misrepresentations, and abused sensitive information, he should be 
fined in the amount of $16 million:
  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) the Committee on Ethics shall conduct an investigation into 
Representative Adam Schiff's lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of 
sensitive information.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under rule IX, a resolution offered from the 
floor by a Member other than the majority leader or the minority leader 
as a question of the privileges of the House has immediate precedence 
only at a time designated by the Chair within 2 legislative days after 
the resolution is properly noticed.
  Pending that designation, the form of the resolution noticed by the 
gentlewoman from Florida will appear in the Record at this point.
  The Chair will not at this point determine whether the resolution 
constitutes a question of privilege. That determination will be made at 
the time designated for consideration of the resolution.

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