IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 884 
Recognizing that Hillary Rodham Clinton violated, ignored, and otherwise 
chose not to follow legal and ethical obligations and responsibilities ex-
pected of the head of any Federal agency of the United States Govern-
ment during her tenure as United States Secretary of State from 2009 
through 2013. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 
Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. 
FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. 
FLEISCHMANN, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. BARTON, Mr. ROHRABACHER, 
Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, Mr. FARENTHOLD, 
Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. 
MULVANEY, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Ms. JENKINS of 
Kansas, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. STUTZMAN, and Mrs. LUMMIS) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing that Hillary Rodham Clinton violated, ignored, 
and otherwise chose not to follow legal and ethical obliga-
tions and responsibilities expected of the head of any 
Federal agency of the United States Government during 
her tenure as United States Secretary of State from 
2009 through 2013. 
Whereas Congress finds that Secretary Clinton negligently 
commissioned the use of a personal email system, with 
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several personal servers, to conduct official business dur-
ing her time as Secretary of State; 
Whereas Secretary Clinton elected not to use a Government 
email account or even a commercial email account and 
was thereby able to circumvent the automatic archiving 
of her emails; 
Whereas Secretary Clinton, at the end of her tenure as Sec-
retary of State in January 2013, failed to make and pre-
serve adequate records and documentation relating to her 
tenure at the Department of State, as chapter 31 of title 
44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 
‘‘Federal Records Act’’) requires the head of each Fed-
eral agency to do; 
Whereas more than 100 emails in multiple email chains ob-
tained from Secretary Clinton’s email server contained 
information that was determined to be classified; 
Whereas Secretary Clinton only returned a portion of her 
work-related email to the Department of State for pur-
poses of investigation in December 2014, with the FBI 
later discovering several thousand additional work-related 
emails; 
Whereas the FBI determined Secretary Clinton and her staff 
were ‘‘extremely careless’’ in their handling of very sen-
sitive, highly classified information; 
Whereas the FBI found evidence to support the notion that 
any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or 
in the position of those Government employees with 
whom she was corresponding about the matters contained 
in particular emails, should have known that an unclassi-
fied system was not the appropriate avenue for these 
types of conversations; 
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Whereas Secretary Clinton’s emails were housed on unclassi-
fied personal servers that were not even supported by 
full-time security staff, such as those found at Federal 
agencies of the United States Government; 
Whereas Secretary Clinton’s unsecure, unclassified personal 
server made her correspondence containing classified in-
formation susceptible to hostile foreign actors and was 
potentially hacked by such actors; 
Whereas Secretary Clinton chose to use her personal server 
to send emails while outside the United States, including 
sending and receiving work-related emails in the terri-
tories of sophisticated adversaries; 
Whereas the FBI assessed that hostile actors gained access 
to the private commercial email accounts of people with 
whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her 
personal account, due to her choosing to correspond from 
an unsecure personal server; and 
Whereas despite Secretary Clinton’s repeated assertion that 
she never sent emails that were marked ‘‘classified’’, Gov-
ernment officials who handle classified information are 
expected to know that if the subject matter contained in 
their emails is of a classified nature, whether marked or 
unmarked, they are still obligated to protect such infor-
mation: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives finds 
that, as the United States Secretary of State, Hillary 
Rodham Clinton failed to meet minimum standards of 
care with respect to the handling of classified and sensitive 
material. 
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