IV 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 7, 2023 
Ms. GREENE of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Rules 
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, act-
ing 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 
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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 investiga-
tion, 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 informa-
tion; as it deems necessary to such investigation. 
(b) Such authority of the committee may be exer-
cised— 
(1) by the chairman and the ranking minority mem-
ber 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 sub-
committee. 
Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be 
issued over the signature of the chairman, or ranking mi-
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nority 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 inter-
rogatory, or affidavit, any person authorized by law to ad-
minister 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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