IV 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 488 

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to 

transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives 

relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 28, 2017 

Mr. CICILLINE (for himself and Ms. JAYAPAL) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to transmit, respectively, certain documents 

to the House of Representatives relating to the removal 

of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director 

James Comey. 

1 Resolved, That the President is requested, and Attor2 ney General of the United States is directed, to transmit, 

3 respectively (in a manner appropriate to classified infor4 mation, if the President or Attorney General determines 

5 appropriate), to the House of Representatives, not later 

6 than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolu7 tion, copies of any document, record, audio recording, 


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1 memo, correspondence, or other communication in their 

2 possessions, or any portion of any such communication, 

3 that refers or relates to the following: 

4 (1) The firing of Director James B. Comey of 

5 the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

6 (2) The participation of Attorney General Jef7 ferson Sessions in the removal of Director Comey. 

8 (3) The scope or application of Attorney Gen9 eral Sessions’ recusal from ‘‘any existing or future 

10 investigations of any matters in any way related to 

11 the campaigns for President of the United States’’. 

12 (4) The application of Attorney General Ses13 sions’ recusal to the removal of Director Comey. 

14 (5) The scope or application of executive privi15 lege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of 

16 Attorney General Sessions before the Senate Select 

17 Committee on Intelligence. 

18 (6) President Donald J. Trump’s statement, 

19 communicated via Twitter on May 12, 2017, at 8:26 

20 a.m.: ‘‘James Comey better hope that there are no 

21 ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking 

22 to the press!’’. 

23 (7) Any system used by the White House to se24 cretly record conversations between President 

25 Trump and Director Comey. 


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1 (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meet2 ing between President Trump and Director Comey. 

3 (9) Any communication Donald Trump, Jr., 

4 Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had 

5 with the Department of Justice or the Federal Bu6 reau of Investigation that relates to their June 9, 

7 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat 

8 Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze. 

9 (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any 

10 criminal law with respect to that June 9, 2016, 

11 meeting, including any analysis of the Federal Elec12 tion Campaign Act of 1971, the Computer Fraud 

13 and Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as it 

14 may pertain to a Federal campaign’s attempt to ob15 tain information that ‘‘would incriminate Hillary’’ 

16 from a foreign government. 

17 (11) The disposition or review of any applica18 tion for a security clearance submitted by White 

19 House advisor Jared Kushner or Attorney General 

20 Sessions. 

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