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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 884 

Recognizing that Hillary Rodham Clinton violated, ignored, and otherwise 

chose not to follow legal and ethical obligations and responsibilities expected of the head of any Federal agency of the United States Government during her tenure as United States Secretary of State from 2009 

through 2013. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 

Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. 

FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. 

FLEISCHMANN, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. BARTON, Mr. ROHRABACHER, 

Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, Mr. FARENTHOLD, 

Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. 

MULVANEY, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Ms. JENKINS of 

Kansas, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. STUTZMAN, and Mrs. LUMMIS) submitted 

the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing that Hillary Rodham Clinton violated, ignored, 

and otherwise chose not to follow legal and ethical obligations and responsibilities expected of the head of any 

Federal agency of the United States Government during 

her tenure as United States Secretary of State from 

2009 through 2013. 

Whereas Congress finds that Secretary Clinton negligently 

commissioned the use of a personal email system, with 


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several personal servers, to conduct official business during her time as Secretary of State; 

Whereas Secretary Clinton elected not to use a Government 

email account or even a commercial email account and 

was thereby able to circumvent the automatic archiving 

of her emails; 

Whereas Secretary Clinton, at the end of her tenure as Secretary of State in January 2013, failed to make and preserve adequate records and documentation relating to her 

tenure at the Department of State, as chapter 31 of title 

44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 

‘‘Federal Records Act’’) requires the head of each Federal agency to do; 

Whereas more than 100 emails in multiple email chains obtained from Secretary Clinton’s email server contained 

information that was determined to be classified; 

Whereas Secretary Clinton only returned a portion of her 

work-related email to the Department of State for purposes of investigation in December 2014, with the FBI 

later discovering several thousand additional work-related 

emails; 

Whereas the FBI determined Secretary Clinton and her staff 

were ‘‘extremely careless’’ in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information; 

Whereas the FBI found evidence to support the notion that 

any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or 

in the position of those Government employees with 

whom she was corresponding about the matters contained 

in particular emails, should have known that an unclassified system was not the appropriate avenue for these 

types of conversations; 


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Whereas Secretary Clinton’s emails were housed on unclassified personal servers that were not even supported by 

full-time security staff, such as those found at Federal 

agencies of the United States Government; 

Whereas Secretary Clinton’s unsecure, unclassified personal 

server made her correspondence containing classified information susceptible to hostile foreign actors and was 

potentially hacked by such actors; 

Whereas Secretary Clinton chose to use her personal server 

to send emails while outside the United States, including 

sending and receiving work-related emails in the territories of sophisticated adversaries; 

Whereas the FBI assessed that hostile actors gained access 

to the private commercial email accounts of people with 

whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her 

personal account, due to her choosing to correspond from 

an unsecure personal server; and 

Whereas despite Secretary Clinton’s repeated assertion that 

she never sent emails that were marked ‘‘classified’’, Government officials who handle classified information are 

expected to know that if the subject matter contained in 

their emails is of a classified nature, whether marked or 

unmarked, they are still obligated to protect such information: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives finds 

2 that, as the United States Secretary of State, Hillary 

3 Rodham Clinton failed to meet minimum standards of 

4 care with respect to the handling of classified and sensitive 

5 material. 

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