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. 446 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 446

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 14, 2017

  Ms. Jayapal (for herself and Mr. Cicilline) 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.
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