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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 198

Requesting the President to furnish to the House of Representatives certain

documents concerning the response of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allegations of criminal conduct in the White House travel office.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 16, 1993

Mr. HYDE (for himself, Mr. MICHEL, Mr. GINGRICH, Mr. ARMEY, and Mr.

CLINGER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary

RESOLUTION

Requesting the President to furnish to the House of Representatives certain documents concerning the response

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allegations

of criminal conduct in the White House travel office.

1 Resolved, That the President is requested to provide

2 to the House of Representatives, not later than fourteen

3 days after the adoption of this resolution, the following

4 documents:

5 (1) Any document concerning the identity of

6 any person who authorized or directed William Ken7 nedy, Associate Counsel to the President, to sum8 mon officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1 to the White House and to prepare that the Bureau

2 investigate the White House travel office.

3 (2) Any document concerning how William Ken4 nedy, Associate Counsel to the President, knew

5 whom to contact in the Federal Bureau of Investiga6 tion to arrange a meeting to discuss the White

7 House travel office.

8 (3) Any document concerning the identity of

9 any person who authorized or directed officials of

10 the Federal Bureau of Investigation to attend any

11 White House meeting convened by William Kennedy,

12 Associate Counsel to the President, to discuss the

13 White House travel office.

14 (4) Any document showing what was said at

15 any meeting referred to in paragraph (3), including

16 the response of officials of the Federal Bureau of In17 vestigation to the proposal that the Bureau inves18 tigate the White House travel office.

19 (5) Any document concerning the identity of

20 any person who authorized or directed William Ken21 nedy, Associate Counsel to the President, to discuss

22 with an official of the Federal Bureau of Investiga23 tion the possibility that the Internal Revenue Service

24 would be used to investigate the White House travel
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1 office if the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not

2 do so.

3 (6) Any document showing what was said dur4 ing the discussion referred to in paragraph (5), in5 cluding the response of the official of the Federal

6 Bureau of Investigation to the suggestion that the

7 Internal Revenue Service be used to investigate the

8 White House travel office.

9 (7) Any document concerning the decision to re10 tain the accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick to

11 audit the White House travel office, including the

12 timing of that decision, and any relationship between

13 the audit and the national performance review by

14 the Vice President.

15 (8) Any document concerning the identity of

16 any official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

17 who decided to investigate the White House travel

18 office, and the identity of any other official of the

19 Federal Bureau of Investigation who was consulted

20 about that decision.

21 (9) Any document concerning what action was

22 originally taken against the seven employees of the

23 White House travel office, how this action was modi24 fied subsequently, and what is the current status of

25 the employees.
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1 (10) Any document concerning who made the

2 decision to take the original action against the seven

3 employees referred to in paragraph (9), who made

4 the decision to modify the original action, who was

5 consulted with respect to each of these decisions,

6 and upon what information these decisions were

7 based.

8 (11) Any document concerning the identity of

9 any person who authorized or directed White House

10 officials to summon John Collingwood, Inspector in

11 Charge of the Office of Public and Congressional Af12 fairs of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to the

13 White House to discuss the investigation of the

14 White House travel office by the Bureau.

15 (12) Any document concerning the identity of

16 any person who authorized or directed John

17 Collingwood, Inspector in Charge of the Office of

18 Public and Congressional Affairs of the Federal Bu19 reau of Investigation, to meet with White House of20 ficials to discuss the investigation of the White

21 House travel office by the Bureau.

22 (13) Any document concerning whether William

23 Sessions, Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves24 tigation, was aware that the meeting referred to in

25 paragraph (12) had been requested.
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1 (14) Any document describing what was said at

2 the meeting referred to in paragraph (12), including

3 how it was decided that a press statement on the

4 stationery of William Sessions, Director of the Fed5 eral Bureau of Investigation, would be issued to con6 firm that a Bureau criminal investigation of the

7 White House travel office was underway.

8 (15) Any document concerning the identity of

9 any person who participated in the drafting of the

10 press statement referred to in paragraph (14), the

11 extent to which the press statement was revised, and

12 the identity of any person who was consulted about

13 the contents of the press statement.

14 (16) Any document concerning the identity of

15 any person who authorized or directed John

16 Collingwood, Inspector in Charge of the Office of

17 Public and Congressional Affairs of the Federal Bu18 reau of Investigation, to issue the press statement

19 described in paragraph (14).

20 (17) Any document concerning whether the

21 Federal Bureau of Investigation would ordinarily

22 issue a press statement to confirm that a criminal

23 investigation is underway when the investigation is

24 at the preliminary stage that the White House travel
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1 office investigation had reached when the statement

2 referred to in paragraph (14) was issued.

3 (18) Any document concerning whether the

4 statement referred to in paragraph (14) violated the

5 Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a), or Federal regulation

6 thereunder, and whether Privacy Act’s civil and

7 criminal penalties are applicable in this case.

8 (19) Any document concerning to what extent

9 White House officials involved with the investigation

10 of the White House travel office were aware of the

11 interest of workers on President William Clinton’s

12 presidential campaign such as Catherine Cornelius

13 in assuming control of the White House travel office,

14 and how they became aware of such interest.

15 (20) Any document concerning to what extent

16 White House officials involved with the investigation

17 of the White House travel office were aware of the

18 interest of contributors to President William Clin19 ton’s presidential campaign such as Harry

20 Thomason (and his business partner Darnell

21 Martens) in obtaining contracts with the White

22 House travel office, and how they became aware of

23 such interests.

24 (21) Any document concerning whether White

25 House officials involved with the investigation of the
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1 White House travel office informed the Federal Bu2 reau of Investigation of the interest of workers in

3 President William Clinton’s presidential campaign

4 such as Catherine Cornelius and contributors to his

5 presidential campaign such as Harry Thomason

6 (and his business partner Darnell Martens) in ob7 taining control of the White House travel office or

8 contracts with it at the time that these White House

9 officials requested the Federal Bureau of Investiga10 tion to investigate the White House travel office, and

11 if not, why this information was withheld.

12 (22) Any document concerning what financial

13 arrangements or understandings existed in connec14 tion with employment of Penny Sample in the White

15 House travel office, and how she came to receive a

16 commission for her work in the White House travel

17 office.

18 (23) Any document concerning whether Harry

19 Thomason was a special government employee within

20 the meaning of section 202(a) of title 18, United

21 States Code, by virtue of the fact that he had a

22 White House residence pass, daily access to the

23 White House, and an office in the Old Executive Of24 fice Building, and if he was, whether his efforts to

25 obtain contracts with the White House travel office
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1 violated the conflict of interest restrictions of section

2 208 of title 18, United States Code.

3 (24) Any documents concerning whether Penny

4 Sample or any other person interested in obtaining

5 contracts with the White House travel office violated

6 the conflict of interest restrictions of section 208 of

7 title 18, United States Code.

8 (25) Any document concerning whether White

9 House officials and officials of the Department of

10 Justice have considered the appointment of William

11 Sessions, Director of the Federal Bureau of inves12 tigation, to other Federal positions, and whether

13 William Sessions was aware that such possibilities

14 were under consideration during the course of these

15 events.

16 (26) Any document concerning when a final de17 termination will be made about the continued tenure

18 in office of William Sessions, Director of the Federal

19 Bureau of Investigation.

20 SEC. 2. As used in this resolution, the term ‘‘docu21 ment’’ means any report, memorandum, schedule or min22 utes of a meeting, log or record of telephone calls or other

23 communications, appointment calendar, or other record or

24 document of any kind, including electronic, handwritten,
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1 or other communications whatsoever and all drafts there2 of.

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