Title: Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution requests the President, and directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to transmit certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to DHS's Disinformation Governance Board.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1135 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1135

  Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
 Homeland Security to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the 
    House of Representatives relating to the Department of Homeland 
              Security's Disinformation Governance Board.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2022

Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself and Mr. Donalds) submitted the following 
  resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
 Homeland Security to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the 
    House of Representatives relating to the Department of Homeland 
              Security's Disinformation Governance Board.

    Resolved, That the President is requested, and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security is directed, to transmit, respectively, to the House 
of Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the 
adoption of this resolution, copies of all documents, memoranda, 
advisory legal opinions, notes from meetings, audio recordings, records 
(including telephone and electronic mail records), correspondence, and 
other communications, or any portion of any such communications, to the 
extent that any such one or more items are within the possession of the 
President or the Secretary, respectively, and refer to the following:
            (1) All information relating to the inception, design, 
        formation, and implementation of the Department of Homeland 
        Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (2) All information pertaining to meetings held between the 
        Executive Office of the President and the Department of 
        Homeland Security relating to the Department of Homeland 
        Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (3) All information pertaining to meetings and 
        conversations, both formal and informal, held between the Biden 
        Administration and any individual who has served in, or any 
        organization that has represented or is representing, a 
        previous Presidential Administration relating to the Department 
        of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (4) All information pertaining to meetings held between the 
        Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice 
        relating to the Department of Homeland Security's 
        Disinformation Governance Board.
            (5) All information pertaining to meetings held between the 
        Biden Administration and private entities, third party 
        organizations, and nongovernmental organizations relating to 
        the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance 
        Board.
            (6) All information pertaining to meetings held between the 
        Biden Administration and representatives of social media 
        companies relating to the Department of Homeland Security's 
        Disinformation Governance Board.
            (7) All information sought or obtained by the Biden 
        Administration relating to the planned activities, authority, 
        and scope of the Department of Homeland Security's 
        Disinformation Governance Board.
            (8) All legal opinions issued or received by the Biden 
        Administration concerning the viability or legality of the 
        creation and implementation of the Department of Homeland 
        Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (9) All information pertaining to the consideration and 
        eventual selection of Nina Jankowicz to lead the Department of 
        Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (10) All information relating to the consideration, 
        screening, and interview process of all individuals who were 
        under consideration to lead the Department of Homeland 
        Security's Disinformation Governance Board.
            (11) All information relating to what, if any, activities 
        the Department of Homeland Security has engaged in relating to 
        the suppression of disinformation prior to the Department of 
        Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board being 
        announced.
            (12) All information relating to the activities of and 
        actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security's 
        Disinformation Governance Board, and by Nina Jankowicz on 
        behalf of the Disinformation Governance Board, prior to the 
        Board being announced by Secretary of Homeland Security 
        Alejandro Mayorkas on April 27, 2022.
            (13) All information relating to the Department of Homeland 
        Security's determination to pause implementation of the 
        Disinformation Governance Board, including information relating 
        to the rationale for such determination, how long such pause 
        will last, and if the Disinformation Governance Board's 
        authority and responsibilities are to be transferred to another 
        agency within or outside of the Department.
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