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.

Bill: 115-hres-488
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2017-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Espionage and treason
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal officials
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Russia
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Sound recording
Subversive activities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: 
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:
 
 
the firing of James B. Comey as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
 
the participation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Comey's removal;
 
the scope or application of Sessions's recusal from investigations of matters related to the presidential campaign and the application of such recusal to Comey's removal;
 
the scope or application of executive privilege as applied to Sessions's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 13, 2017;
 
President Trump's Twitter statement on May 12, 2017, that &quot;James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!&quot;;
 
 any system used by the White House to secretly record conversations between the President and Comey;
 
 any contemporaneous account of any meeting between such individuals;
 
 any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had with Sessions or Comey that relates to their June 9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze;
 
any analysis regarding the violation of any criminal law with respect to such meeting as it may pertain to a federal campaign's attempt to obtain information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton from a foreign government; and
 
the disposition or review of any application for a security clearance submitted by Kushner or Sessions.
 

action_date: 2017-09-28
text: 
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:
 
 
the removal of James B. Comey from his position as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
 
the participation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Comey's removal;
 
the scope or application of Sessions's recusal from investigations of matters related to the presidential campaign and the application of such recusal to Comey's removal;
 
the scope or application of executive privilege as applied to Sessions's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 13, 2017;
 
President Trump's Twitter statement on May 12, 2017, that &quot;James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!&quot;;
 
 any system used by the White House to secretly record conversations between the President and Comey;
 
 any contemporaneous account of any meeting between such individuals;
 
 any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had with Sessions or Comey that relates to their June 9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze;
 
any analysis regarding the violation of any criminal law with respect to such meeting as it may pertain to a federal campaign's attempt to obtain information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton from a foreign government; and
 
the disposition or review of any application for a security clearance submitted by Kushner or Sessions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-28
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 88.
action_date: 2017-09-28
text: Reported adversely (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-335.
action_date: 2017-09-28
text: Reported adversely (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-335.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Ordered to be Reported Unfavorably (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 8.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Introduced in House