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Objecting to the conduct of the President of the United States.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 19, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jul 19, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Declares that the House of Representatives has no confidence that President Trump is faithfully executing the office of President.
Calls for President Trump to:
- release his tax returns;
- place his private business assets in a blind trust or divest from them;
- donate to the U.S. Treasury any personal profit from foreign patronage of hotels in which he has an ownership interest;
- refrain from taking any action that results in taxpayer money being spent on goods or services from businesses in which he has an ownership interest;
- seek congressional consent for any emoluments he has received from foreign countries;
- refrain from using Twitter inappropriately;
- support the First Amendment, support freedom of the press, refrain from calling reporting "fake news," refrain from posting video of himself wrestling with a press logo, and stop limiting full electronic press access to White House press briefings;
- promote democracy, freedom of the press, and human rights in foreign policy;
- unequivocally acknowledge that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and work to protect our electoral process from future foreign interference;
- refuse any offer to form a cybersecurity unit with the Russian government to protect the United States from election hacking;
- respect the independence of our nation's judicial branch;
- respect Members of Congress and refrain from using derogatory nicknames for them; and
- conduct foreign policy in a manner that reflects the U.S. traditional role as leader of the free world.
What's happening now
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Committees of jurisdiction
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