IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 488 
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 Direc-
tor 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 
RESOLUTION 
Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attor-
ney General to transmit, respectively, certain documents 
to the House of Representatives relating to the removal 
of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director 
James Comey. 
Resolved, That the President is requested, and Attor-
ney General of the United States is directed, to transmit, 
respectively (in a manner appropriate to classified infor-
mation, if the President or Attorney General determines 
appropriate), to the House of Representatives, not later 
than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolu-
tion, copies of any document, record, audio recording, 
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memo, correspondence, or other communication in their 
possessions, or any portion of any such communication, 
that refers or relates to the following: 
(1) The firing of Director James B. Comey of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(2) The participation of Attorney General Jef-
ferson Sessions in the removal of Director Comey. 
(3) The scope or application of Attorney Gen-
eral Sessions’ recusal from ‘‘any existing or future 
investigations of any matters in any way related to 
the campaigns for President of the United States’’. 
(4) The application of Attorney General Ses-
sions’ recusal to the removal of Director Comey. 
(5) The scope or application of executive privi-
lege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of 
Attorney General Sessions before the Senate Select 
Committee on Intelligence. 
(6) President Donald J. Trump’s statement, 
communicated via Twitter on May 12, 2017, at 8:26 
a.m.: ‘‘James Comey better hope that there are no 
‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking 
to the press!’’. 
(7) Any system used by the White House to se-
cretly 
record 
conversations 
between 
President 
Trump and Director Comey. 
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(8) Any contemporaneous account of any meet-
ing between President Trump and Director Comey. 
(9) Any communication Donald Trump, Jr., 
Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had 
with the Department of Justice or the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation that relates to their June 9, 
2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat 
Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze. 
(10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any 
criminal law with respect to that June 9, 2016, 
meeting, including any analysis of the Federal Elec-
tion Campaign Act of 1971, the Computer Fraud 
and Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as it 
may pertain to a Federal campaign’s attempt to ob-
tain information that ‘‘would incriminate Hillary’’ 
from a foreign government. 
(11) The disposition or review of any applica-
tion for a security clearance submitted by White 
House advisor Jared Kushner or Attorney General 
Sessions. 
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