IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 437 

Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of California’s 30th 

Congressional District. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2023 

Mrs. LUNA submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Ethics 

RESOLUTION 

Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of 

California’s 30th Congressional District. 

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; 


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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; 

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 


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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; and 

Whereas the American taxpayers paid $32 million to fund the 

investigation into collusion that was launched as a result 

of Rep. Schiff’s lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of 

sensitive information: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That— 

2 (1) the House of Representatives censures and 

3 condemns Adam Schiff, Representative of Califor4 nia’s 30th Congressional District, for conduct that 

5 misleads the American people in a way that is not 

6 befitting an elected Member of the House of Rep7 resentatives; 

8 (2) Representative Adam Schiff will forthwith 

9 present himself in the well of the House of Rep10 resentatives for the pronouncement of censure; 


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1 (3) Representative Adam Schiff will be cen2 sured with the public reading of this resolution by 

3 the Speaker; and 

4 (4) Representative Adam Schiff be, and is here5 by, fined in the amount of $16,000,000. 

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