[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 104 (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2924-H2926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
RAISING A QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE
Mrs. LUNA. Madam Speaker, I call up the resolution previously
noticed.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution.
The Clerk read as follows:
H. Res. 489
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;
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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;
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 $16,000,000: 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.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution qualifies.
Motion to Table
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, I have a motion at the
desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion.
The Clerk read as follow:
Ms. Clark of Massachusetts moves to lay the resolution on
the table.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas
and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 225,
nays 196, answered ``present'' 7, not voting 5, as follows:
[Roll No. 269]
YEAS--225
Adams
Aguilar
Allred
Armstrong
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Bowman
Boyle (PA)
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bush
Caraveo
Carbajal
Cardenas
Carson
Carter (LA)
Cartwright
Casar
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chavez-DeRemer
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Ciscomani
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Connolly
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crockett
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davidson
Davis (IL)
Davis (NC)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Deluzio
Dingell
Doggett
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Fitzpatrick
Fletcher
Foster
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Frost
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Garcia, Robert
Golden (ME)
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, Vicente
Gottheimer
Granger
Graves (LA)
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Higgins (NY)
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Jackson (IL)
Jackson (NC)
Jackson Lee
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Kamlager-Dove
Kaptur
Kean (NJ)
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Khanna
Kildee
Kiley
Kilmer
Kim (CA)
Kim (NJ)
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster
Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawler
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Manning
Massie
Matsui
McBath
McClellan
McClintock
McCollum
McGarvey
McGovern
Meeks
Menendez
Meng
Molinaro
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse
Nickel
Norcross
Obernolte
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Peltola
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Quigley
Raskin
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Simpson
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Spanberger
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Swalwell
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Trone
Turner
Underwood
Valadao
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Wexton
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
Womack
NAYS--196
Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bean (FL)
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (NC)
Boebert
Bost
Brecheen
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burchett
Burgess
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carl
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crawford
Crenshaw
Curtis
D'Esposito
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Duarte
Duncan
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Ezell
Fallon
Feenstra
Ferguson
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fleischmann
Flood
Foxx
Franklin, C. Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Gaetz
Gallagher
Garbarino
Garcia, Mike
Gimenez
Good (VA)
Gooden (TX)
Gosar
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Harris
Harshbarger
Hern
Higgins (LA)
Hill
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kiggans (VA)
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Langworthy
Latta
LaTurner
Lee (FL)
Lesko
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Luna
Luttrell
Mace
Malliotakis
Mann
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McCormick
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Mooney
Moore (AL)
Moore (UT)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Ogles
Owens
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Pfluger
Posey
Reschenthaler
Rodgers (WA)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rosendale
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Steel
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Strong
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Waltz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams (NY)
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Yakym
Zinke
ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--7
DeSaulnier
Escobar
Issa
Ivey
Ross
Santos
Wild
NOT VOTING--5
Dunn (FL)
Gonzales, Tony
McHenry
Mfume
Ramirez
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.
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So the motion to table was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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