Title: Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Requests the President and directs the U.S. Attorney General to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any document or communication in their possession that refers or relates to:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 488 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 488

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General 
     to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of 
                  Investigation Director James Comey.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2017

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself and Ms. Jayapal) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General 
     to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
  Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of 
                  Investigation Director James Comey.

    Resolved, That the President is requested, and Attorney General of 
the United States is directed, to transmit, respectively (in a manner 
appropriate to classified information, if the President or Attorney 
General determines appropriate), to the House of Representatives, not 
later than 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, 
copies of any document, record, audio recording, memo, correspondence, 
or other communication in their possessions, or any portion of any such 
communication, that refers or relates to the following:
            (1) The firing of Director James B. Comey of the Federal 
        Bureau of Investigation.
            (2) The participation of Attorney General Jefferson 
        Sessions in the removal of Director Comey.
            (3) The scope or application of Attorney General Sessions' 
        recusal from ``any existing or future investigations of any 
        matters in any way related to the campaigns for President of 
        the United States''.
            (4) The application of Attorney General Sessions' recusal 
        to the removal of Director Comey.
            (5) The scope or application of executive privilege as 
        applied to the June 13, 2017, testimony of Attorney General 
        Sessions before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
            (6) President Donald J. Trump's statement, communicated via 
        Twitter on May 12, 2017, at 8:26 a.m.: ``James Comey better 
        hope that there are no `tapes' of our conversations before he 
        starts leaking to the press!''.
            (7) Any system used by the White House to secretly record 
        conversations between President Trump and Director Comey.
            (8) Any contemporaneous account of any meeting between 
        President Trump and Director Comey.
            (9) Any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or 
        Jared Kushner may have had with the Department of Justice or 
        the Federal Bureau of Investigation that relates to their June 
        9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, 
        and Irakly Kaveladze.
            (10) Any analysis regarding the violation of any criminal 
        law with respect to that June 9, 2016, meeting, including any 
        analysis of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the 
        Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Espionage Act of 1917 as 
        it may pertain to a Federal campaign's attempt to obtain 
        information that ``would incriminate Hillary'' from a foreign 
        government.
            (11) The disposition or review of any application for a 
        security clearance submitted by White House advisor Jared 
        Kushner or Attorney General Sessions.
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