IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 470 
Raising a question of the privileges of the House. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 21, 2009 
Mr. BISHOP of Utah submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Raising a question of the privileges of the House. 
Whereas the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, a Representative from 
California, served from 1997 to 2002 as Ranking Demo-
cratic Member of the House Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence; 
Whereas Representative Pelosi currently serves as Speaker of 
the House, a position of considerable power and influence 
within the Congress; 
Whereas title 3 of the United States Code designates the 
Speaker of the House as third in line of succession to the 
Presidency; 
Whereas Speaker Pelosi has publicly challenged the truthful-
ness of what she and other congressional leaders were 
told by Central Intelligence Agency officials about the 
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agency’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques on sus-
pected terrorists; 
Whereas in an MSNBC interview on February 25, 2009, 
Speaker Pelosi stated, ‘‘I can say flat-out, they never told 
us that these enhanced interrogation techniques were 
being used’’; 
Whereas Speaker Pelosi’s public statements allege a sus-
tained pattern of deception by government intelligence of-
ficers charged by law with informing Congress about the 
agency’s activities; 
Whereas when asked at a press conference on May 15, 2009, 
widely reported by the news media, ‘‘Madame Speaker, 
just to be clear, you’re accusing the CIA of lying to you 
in September?’’ Speaker Pelosi stated, ‘‘Yes’’; 
Whereas during the same press conference the Speaker sub-
sequently stated, ‘‘So yes, I’m saying they are misleading, 
the CIA was misleading the Congress’’ and further, ‘‘they 
mislead us all the time’’ and ‘‘they misrepresented every 
step of the way’’; 
Whereas in a memorandum to CIA employees released pub-
licly on May 15, 2009, Leon Panetta, the CIA Director, 
stated, ‘‘It is not our policy or practice to mislead Con-
gress. That is against our laws and our values. As the 
Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional 
inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 
2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the 
interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing the enhanced 
interrogation techniques that had been employed’’; 
Whereas national and international media reports on this 
controversy have damaged the reputation of the House by 
raising questions about whether the effectiveness of con-
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gressional oversight may have been undermined through 
false or misleading statements by intelligence officials; 
and 
Whereas in order to safeguard the reputation of the House 
it is imperative to reconcile as soon as possible the afore-
mentioned contradictory statements by Speaker Pelosi 
and CIA Director Panetta: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) a Select Subcommittee of the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence shall be established 
to review and verify the accuracy of the Speaker’s 
aforementioned public statements; 
(2) the Select Subcommittee shall be comprised 
of four members of the full committee, two ap-
pointed by the chairman of the committee and two 
by its ranking minority member; 
(3) The subcommittee shall have the same pow-
ers to obtain testimony and documents pursuant to 
subpoena authorized under clause 2(m) of rule XI of 
the Rules of the House; and 
(4) the Select Subcommittee report its findings 
and recommendations to the House not later than 
sixty calendar days after adoption of this resolution. 
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