Title: Abuse of the Pardon Prevention Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Abuse of the Pardon Prevention Act
This bill requires the Department of Justice to submit to Congress all investigative materials related to an offense for which the President pardons an individual if the offense arises from an investigation in which the President, or a relative of the President, is a target, subject, or witness.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1627 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1627

  To direct the Attorney General to submit to Congress investigative 
materials in the event of certain pardons granted by the President, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2019

 Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Pallone, Miss Rice of New 
   York, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Lowey, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, 
  Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Welch, Ms. Speier, Ms. Waters, Mr. 
Rush, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. 
 Lipinski, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Rouda, Ms. Brownley of California, Mrs. 
    Napolitano, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Panetta, and Mr. Krishnamoorthi) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Attorney General to submit to Congress investigative 
materials in the event of certain pardons granted by the President, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Abuse of the Pardon Prevention 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT RELATING TO CERTAIN PARDONS.

    (a) Submission of Information.--In the event that the President 
grants an individual a pardon for an offense against the United States 
that arises from an investigation in which the President, or a relative 
of the President, is a target, subject, or witness, not later than 30 
days after the date of such pardon, the Attorney General shall submit 
to the chairmen and ranking members of the appropriate congressional 
committees all materials of an investigation that were obtained by a 
United States Attorney, another Federal prosecutor, or an investigative 
authority of the Federal Government, relating to the offense for which 
the individual is so pardoned.
    (b) Treatment of Information.--Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of 
Criminal Procedure may not be construed to prohibit the disclosure of 
information required by subsection (a) of this section.
    (c) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to a 
pardon granted by the President on or after January 20, 2017.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of 
                the Senate; and
                    (B) if an investigation relates to intelligence or 
                counterintelligence matters, the Permanent Select 
                Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
                Representatives and the Select Committee on 
                Intelligence of the Senate.
            (2) The term ``pardon'' includes a commutation of sentence.
            (3) The term ``relative'' has the meaning given that term 
        in section 3110(a) of title 5, United States Code.
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