IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1032 
Instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to further its inquiry into the 
misconduct of William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 30, 2020 
Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. 
TAKANO, Mr. COOPER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. CARSON 
of Indiana, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. OMAR, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. 
WATERS, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. CICILLINE, 
Mr. RUSH, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. NEAL, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. GARCI´A of Illi-
nois, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. BEYER, Mr. EVANS, Mr. SWALWELL 
of California, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. PERL-
MUTTER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. TED LIEU of California, and Ms. TLAIB) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to further its 
inquiry into the misconduct of William P. Barr, Attorney 
General of the United States. 
Whereas William P. Barr, Attorney General of the United 
States, has taken deliberate actions that violate the 
rights of the American people, assault the principle of im-
partial administration of justice, and undermine the con-
stitutional structure of separation of powers across three 
co-equal branches of Government; 
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Whereas Attorney General Barr abused the power of his of-
fice to initiate pretextual antitrust investigations into 
‘‘unpopular’’ American corporations in the cannabis, 
automobile, and technology industries; 
Whereas such investigations misused the resources Congress 
appropriated for the Department of Justice to harass and 
intimidate companies based on President Donald J. 
Trump’s whims and without a proper legal predicate for 
such investigations; 
Whereas Attorney General Barr impaired the proper function 
of the Congress of the United States, a coequal branch 
of Government, by— 
(1) withholding subpoenaed information, including 
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, and refusing 
to appear before the House of Representatives Committee 
on the Judiciary on March 2, 2019; 
(2) failing to comply with a subpoena issued by the 
House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and 
Reform on April 2, 2019, to produce documents; 
(3) ordering a Department of Justice employee, 
John Gore, not to comply with a Committee on Oversight 
and Reform subpoena requiring him to appear for deposi-
tion testimony before the Committee on April 11, 2019; 
and 
(4) prohibiting the referral of the Intelligence Com-
munity whistleblower complaint to the House Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence as directed by law; 
Whereas Attorney General Barr eroded confidence in the ju-
dicial system by questioning the legitimacy of Depart-
ment of Justice investigations and discrediting the De-
partment’s finding, by— 
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(1) casting aspersions on the lawful inquiry into for-
eign interference in the 2016 Presidential elections call-
ing it a ‘‘travesty’’ and repeatedly asserting the United 
States ‘‘spied’’ on then candidate Donald Trump’s cam-
paign; 
(2) misleading the Congress and the public by offer-
ing a ‘‘summary letter’’ of the Special Counsel Robert 
Mueller’s report that, according to Mueller, did ‘‘not fully 
capture the context, nature, and substance of this Of-
fice’s work and conclusion’’ and created ‘‘Public confu-
sion about critical aspects of the results of our investiga-
tion. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for 
which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to 
assure full public confidence in the outcome of the inves-
tigation,’’; and 
(3) soliciting foreign assistance for information that 
would raise doubts about the origins and integrity of the 
investigation into the foreign inference in the 2016 elec-
tion; 
Whereas Attorney General Barr has abused his office to fur-
ther the personal political goals of President Trump and 
target former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for 
President in 2020, by announcing that the Department 
of Justice is accepting and reviewing information from 
the President’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, who 
has peddled disproven conspiracy theories about Vice 
President Joe Biden’s and his son, Hunter Biden’s, en-
gagement in Ukraine; 
Whereas President Trump withheld congressionally approved 
military assistance to Ukraine to pressure that nation to 
announce an investigation into the same conspiracy theo-
ries promoted by Rudolph Giuliani in an effort to smear 
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