IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 660 
Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part 
of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient 
grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitu-
tional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United 
States of America, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 29, 2019 
Mr. MCGOVERN (for himself, Mr. HASTINGS, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. 
PERLMUTTER, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. SHALALA, 
and Mr. DESAULNIER) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing inves-
tigations as part of the existing House of Representatives 
inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the 
House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional 
power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of 
the United States of America, and for other purposes. 
Resolved, That the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and the Committees on Financial Services, 
Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, and 
Ways and Means, are directed to continue their ongoing 
investigations as part of the existing House of Representa-
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tives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the 
House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional 
power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the 
United States of America. 
SEC. 2. OPEN AND TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATIVE PRO-
CEEDINGS BY THE PERMANENT SELECT COM-
MITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE. 
For the purpose of continuing the investigation de-
scribed in the first section of this resolution, the Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence (referred to in this 
resolution as the ‘‘Permanent Select Committee’’) is au-
thorized to conduct proceedings pursuant to this resolu-
tion as follows: 
(1) The chair of the Permanent Select Com-
mittee shall designate an open hearing or hearings 
pursuant to this section. 
(2) Notwithstanding clause 2(j)(2) of rule XI of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives, upon rec-
ognition by the chair for such purpose under this 
paragraph during any hearing designated pursuant 
to paragraph (1), the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Permanent Select Committee shall be 
permitted to question witnesses for equal specified 
periods of longer than five minutes, as determined 
by the chair. The time available for each period of 
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questioning under this paragraph shall be equal for 
the chair and the ranking minority member. The 
chair may confer recognition for multiple periods of 
such questioning, but each period of questioning 
shall not exceed 90 minutes in the aggregate. Only 
the chair and ranking minority member, or a Perma-
nent Select Committee employee if yielded to by the 
chair or ranking minority member, may question 
witnesses during such periods of questioning. At the 
conclusion of questioning pursuant to this para-
graph, the committee shall proceed with questioning 
under the five-minute rule pursuant to clause 
2(j)(2)(A) of rule XI. 
(3) To allow for full evaluation of minority wit-
ness requests, the ranking minority member may 
submit to the chair, in writing, any requests for wit-
ness testimony relevant to the investigation de-
scribed in the first section of this resolution within 
72 hours after notice is given for the first hearing 
designated pursuant to paragraph (1). Any such re-
quest shall be accompanied by a detailed written jus-
tification of the relevance of the testimony of each 
requested witness to the investigation described in 
the first section of this resolution. 
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(4)(A) The ranking minority member of the 
Permanent Select Committee is authorized, with the 
concurrence of the chair, to require, as deemed nec-
essary to the investigation— 
(i) by subpoena or otherwise— 
(I) the attendance and testimony of 
any person (including at a taking of a dep-
osition); and 
(II) the production of books, records, 
correspondence, memoranda, papers, and 
documents; and 
(ii) by interrogatory, the furnishing of in-
formation. 
(B) In the case that the chair declines to con-
cur in a proposed action of the ranking minority 
member pursuant to subparagraph (A), the ranking 
minority member shall have the right to refer to the 
committee for decision the question whether such 
authority shall be so exercised and the chair shall 
convene the committee promptly to render that deci-
sion, subject to the notice procedures for a com-
mittee meeting under clause 2(g)(3)(A) and (B) of 
rule XI. 
(C) Subpoenas and interrogatories so author-
ized may be signed by the ranking minority member, 
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and may be served by any person designated by the 
ranking minority member. 
(5) The chair is authorized to make publicly 
available in electronic form the transcripts of deposi-
tions conducted by the Permanent Select Committee 
in furtherance of the investigation described in the 
first section of this resolution, with appropriate 
redactions for classified and other sensitive informa-
tion. 
(6) The Permanent Select Committee is di-
rected to issue a report setting forth its findings and 
any recommendations and appending any informa-
tion and materials the Permanent Select Committee 
may deem appropriate with respect to the investiga-
tion described in the first section of this resolution. 
The chair shall transmit such report and appendices, 
along with any supplemental, minority, additional, or 
dissenting views filed pursuant to clause 2(l) of rule 
XI, to the Committee on the Judiciary and make 
such report publicly available in electronic form, 
with appropriate redactions to protect classified and 
other sensitive information. The report required by 
this paragraph shall be prepared in consultation 
with the chairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
and the Committee on Oversight and Reform. 
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SEC. 3. TRANSMISSION OF ADDITIONAL MATERIALS. 
The chair of the Permanent Select Committee or the 
chair of any other committee having custody of records 
or other materials relating to the inquiry referenced in the 
first section of this resolution is authorized, in consulta-
tion with the ranking minority member, to transfer such 
records or materials to the Committee on the Judiciary. 
SEC. 4. IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY PROCEDURES IN THE 
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY. 
(a) The House authorizes the Committee on the Judi-
ciary to conduct proceedings relating to the impeachment 
inquiry referenced in the first section of this resolution 
pursuant to the procedures submitted for printing in the 
Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on 
Rules, including such procedures as to allow for the par-
ticipation of the President and his counsel. 
(b) The Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to 
promulgate additional procedures as it deems necessary 
for the fair and efficient conduct of committee hearings 
held pursuant to this resolution, provided that the addi-
tional procedures are not inconsistent with the procedures 
referenced in subsection (a), the Rules of the Committee, 
and the Rules of the House. 
(c)(1) The ranking minority member of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary is authorized, with the concur-
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rence of the chair of the Committee on the Judiciary, to 
require, as deemed necessary to the investigation— 
(A) by subpoena or otherwise— 
(i) the attendance and testimony of any 
person (including at a taking of a deposition); 
and 
(ii) the production of books, records, cor-
respondence, memoranda, papers, and docu-
ments; and 
(B) by interrogatory, the furnishing of informa-
tion. 
(2) In the case that the chair declines to concur in 
a proposed action of the ranking minority member pursu-
ant to paragraph (1), the ranking minority member shall 
have the right to refer to the committee for decision the 
question whether such authority shall be so exercised and 
the chair shall convene the committee promptly to render 
that decision, subject to the notice procedures for a com-
mittee meeting under clause 2(g)(3)(A) and (B) of rule 
XI. 
(3) Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may 
be signed by the ranking minority member, and may be 
served by any person designated by the ranking minority 
member. 
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(d) The Committee on the Judiciary shall report to 
the House of Representatives such resolutions, articles of 
impeachment, or other recommendations as it deems prop-
er. 
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