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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 477 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 477

Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate 
 whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of Secretary of 
                 Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2023

  Ms. Greene of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was 
                   referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION

 
Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate 
 whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of Secretary of 
                 Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

    Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary, acting as a whole or 
by any subcommittee thereof appointed by the chairman for the purposes 
hereof and in accordance with the rules of the committee, is authorized 
and directed to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient 
grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its 
constitutional power to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security 
Alejandro Mayorkas. The committee shall report to the House of 
Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other 
recommendations as it deems proper.
    Sec. 2. (a) For the purpose of making such investigation, the 
committee is authorized to require--
    (1) by subpoena or otherwise--
            (A) the attendance and testimony of any person (including 
        at a taking of a deposition by counsel for the committee); and
            (B) the production of such things; and
    (2) by interrogatory, the furnishing of such information; as it 
deems necessary to such investigation.
    (b) Such authority of the committee may be exercised--
    (1) by the chairman and the ranking minority member acting jointly, 
or, if either declines to act, by the other acting alone, except that 
in the event either so declines, either shall have the right to refer 
to the committee for decision the question whether such authority shall 
be so exercised and the committee shall be convened promptly to render 
that decision; or
    (2) by the committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee.
Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be issued over the 
signature of the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member 
designated by either of them, and may be served by any person 
designated by the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member 
designated by either of them. The chairman, or ranking minority member, 
or any member designated by either of them (or, with respect to any 
deposition, answer to interrogatory, or affidavit, any person 
authorized by law to administer oaths) may administer oaths to any 
witness. For the purposes of this section, ``things'' includes, without 
limitation, books, records, correspondence, logs, journals, 
memorandums, papers, documents, writings, drawings, graphs, charts, 
photographs, reproductions, recordings, tapes, transcripts, printouts, 
data compilations from which information can be obtained (translated if 
necessary, through detection devices into reasonably usable form), 
tangible objects, and other things of any kind.
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