[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.

                              {time}  1615

  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.

                              {time}  1621

  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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