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House Calendar No. 88 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 488 
[Report No. 115–335] 
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 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 
Additional sponsors: Mr. NADLER, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, 
Mr. COHEN, Mr. EVANS, Mr. MCEACHIN, Ms. LEE, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 
SCHNEIDER, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. SWALWELL of Cali-
fornia, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. 
BROWNLEY of California, Mr. TED LIEU of California, and Mr. ELLISON 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 
Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar, and 
ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
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 
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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, 
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. 
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(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. 
(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. 
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(11) The disposition or review of any applica-
tion for a security clearance submitted by White 
House advisor Jared Kushner or Attorney General 
Sessions. 
That the President is requested, and Attorney General of 
the United States is directed, to transmit, respectively (in 
a manner appropriate to classified information, 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 resolution, copies of any 
document, record, audio recording, memo, correspondence, 
or other communication in their possessions, or any portion 
of any such communication, that refers or relates to the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The removal of James B. Comey from his po-
sition as the director of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation. 
(2) The participation of Attorney General Jeffer-
son Sessions in the removal of Director Comey. 
(3) The scope or application of Attorney General 
Sessions’ recusal from ‘‘any existing or future inves-
tigations 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. 
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(5) The scope or application of executive privi-
lege as applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of At-
torney General Sessions before the Senate Select Com-
mittee 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. 
(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 Bureau of 
Investigation that relates to their June 9, 2016, meet-
ing 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, meet-
ing, including any analysis of the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971, the Computer Fraud and 
Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as it may 
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pertain to a Federal campaign’s attempt to obtain in-
formation 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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House Calendar No. 88 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 488 
[Report No. 115–335] 
RESOLUTION 
Of inquiry requesting the President and directing 
the Attorney General to transmit, respectively, 
certain documents to the House of Representa-
tives relating to the removal of former Federal 
Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 
Reported adversely with an amendment, referred to the 
House Calendar, and ordered to be printed 
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