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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.
Introduced: July 14, 2017
Introduced by:
Jayapal, Pramila
Democratic
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Became law
Sep 8, 2017
Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 82.
Sep 8, 2017
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-300.
Jul 26, 2017
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 13.
Jul 26, 2017
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 14, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jul 14, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English 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:
- 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 "James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!",
- any system used by the White House to secretly record conversations between the President and Comey, and
- any contemporaneous account of meetings between such individuals.
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Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 82.
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