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House Calendar No. 88 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 488 

[Report No. 115–335] 

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 

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 

Additional sponsors: Mr. NADLER, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, 

Mr. COHEN, Mr. EVANS, Mr. MCEACHIN, Ms. LEE, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 

SCHNEIDER, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 

Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. GUTIE ́RREZ, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 

BROWNLEY of California, Mr. TED LIEU of California, and Mr. ELLISON

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 

Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar, and 

ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

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 


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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, 

8 memo, correspondence, or other communication in their 

9 possessions, or any portion of any such communication, 

10 that refers or relates to the following: 

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

12 the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

13 (2) The participation of Attorney General Jef14 ferson Sessions in the removal of Director Comey. 

15 (3) The scope or application of Attorney Gen16 eral Sessions’ recusal from ‘‘any existing or future 

17 investigations of any matters in any way related to 

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

19 (4) The application of Attorney General Ses20 sions’ recusal to the removal of Director Comey. 

21 (5) The scope or application of executive privi22 lege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of 

23 Attorney General Sessions before the Senate Select 

24 Committee on Intelligence. 


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

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

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

4 ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking 

5 to the press!’’. 

6 (7) Any system used by the White House to se7 cretly record conversations between President 

8 Trump and Director Comey. 

9 (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meet10 ing between President Trump and Director Comey. 

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

12 Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had 

13 with the Department of Justice or the Federal Bu14 reau of Investigation that relates to their June 9, 

15 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat 

16 Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze. 

17 (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any 

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

19 meeting, including any analysis of the Federal Elec20 tion Campaign Act of 1971, the Computer Fraud 

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

22 may pertain to a Federal campaign’s attempt to ob23 tain information that ‘‘would incriminate Hillary’’ 

24 from a foreign government. 


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1 (11) The disposition or review of any applica2 tion for a security clearance submitted by White 

3 House advisor Jared Kushner or Attorney General 

4 Sessions. 

5 That the President is requested, and Attorney General of 

6 the United States is directed, to transmit, respectively (in 

7 a manner appropriate to classified information, if the 

8 President or Attorney General determines appropriate), to 

9 the House of Representatives, not later than 14 days after 

10 the date of the adoption of this resolution, copies of any 

11 document, record, audio recording, memo, correspondence, 

12 or other communication in their possessions, or any portion 

13 of any such communication, that refers or relates to the fol14 lowing: 

15 (1) The removal of James B. Comey from his po16 sition as the director of the Federal Bureau of Inves17 tigation. 

18 (2) The participation of Attorney General Jeffer19 son Sessions in the removal of Director Comey. 

20 (3) The scope or application of Attorney General 

21 Sessions’ recusal from ‘‘any existing or future inves22 tigations of any matters in any way related to the 

23 campaigns for President of the United States’’. 

24 (4) The application of Attorney General Ses25 sions’ recusal to the removal of Director Comey. 


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1 (5) The scope or application of executive privi2 lege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of At3 torney General Sessions before the Senate Select Com4 mittee on Intelligence. 

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

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

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

8 ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to 

9 the press!’’. 

10 (7) Any system used by the White House to se11 cretly record conversations between President Trump 

12 and Director Comey. 

13 (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meet14 ing between President Trump and Director Comey. 

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

16 Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had with 

17 the Department of Justice or the Federal Bureau of 

18 Investigation that relates to their June 9, 2016, meet19 ing with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, 

20 and Irakly Kaveladze. 

21 (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any 

22 criminal law with respect to that June 9, 2016, meet23 ing, including any analysis of the Federal Election 

24 Campaign Act of 1971, the Computer Fraud and 

25 Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as it may 


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1 pertain to a Federal campaign’s attempt to obtain in2 formation that ‘‘would incriminate Hillary’’ from a 

3 foreign government. 

4 (11) The disposition or review of any applica5 tion for a security clearance submitted by White 

6 House advisor Jared Kushner or Attorney General 

7 Sessions. 


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House Calendar No. 88 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 488 

[Report No. 115–335] 

RESOLUTION 

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing 

Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. tives relating to the removal of former Federal certain documents to the House of Representathe Attorney General to transmit, respectively, 

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 

Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the 

House Calendar, and ordered to be printed 


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