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02-06-2019, 12:08 PM
House resolution Sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz, [R-FL-1] & Rep. Andy Biggs [R-AZ-5] introduced on Feb 4, 2019.
HR. Res. 97 - Justice for All Resolution https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/97/text
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the crime of lying to Congress must be prosecuted equitably.
(excerpt)
Whereas the lack of convictions for lying to Congress is not due to the overwhelming truthfulness of testimony given, as it has been revealed and proven that many people have knowingly provided false statements to Congress without facing punishment, including but not limited to—
(1) James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, who was questioned by Senator Ron Wyden, and was asked whether the NSA “collect[ed] any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans”, to which Clapper replied “No, sir”, and “not wittingly”, a response he later admitted was “clearly erroneous”;
(2) James Comey, former FBI Director, who was questioned by Senator Charles Grassley, and asked whether he had ever authorized someone to leak information to the media, to which he responded “no”, despite reports from the Office of the Inspector General indicating his response was likely untrue;
(3) John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who was questioned by Representative Trey Gowdy, and asked whether the FBI or CIA had used the so-called “Steele dossier” as the basis for any legal proceedings of any kind, to which Brennan replied “no”, and stated further that the dossier “was not, in any way, used as the basis for the intelligence community assessment” of possible election interference, a statement contradicted by news reports, investigative journalists, and the sworn testimony of many other members of the intelligence community;
(4) Andrew McCabe, former Deputy FBI Director, who was revealed by the Office of the Inspector General to have “lacked candor” when questioned about his unauthorized disclosure of information to the media, including three instances while McCabe was under oath;
(5) Lois Lerner, former Director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, who repeatedly made false statements to congressional investigators, and who denied that she had requested overly extensive and deeply intrusive information from conservative nonprofit organizations in an attempt in order to chill their constitutional rights to free political speech, statements later revealed by the Department of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Information to be untrue;
(6) Eric Holder, former Attorney General, who—
(A) provided false information to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 3, 2011, regarding the origins of the program named “Fast and Furious”, subsequently changing his statement during testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on November 18, 2011;
(B) provided false information to the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 15, 2013, when he claimed that he had recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation, without any records indicating a formal recusal letter, required under such circumstances, had ever been drafted; and
(C) provided false information to the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 15, 2013, saying that “prosecution of the press” was something he had never “been involved in [or] heard of,” though he had personally signed off on a search warrant for the personal email account of Fox News correspondent Mr. James Rosen; and
(7) Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, who was questioned about mishandling classified data by Representative Jim Jordan during a hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and responded “there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails, either sent or received”, a statement proven untrue by reports from the FBI and the Office of the Inspector General: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved...
...(edited to clarify) That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the crime of lying to Congress, as defined in sections 1001, 1621, and 1623 of chapter 18, United States Code, must be prosecuted equitably, without regard to politics or elections.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/97/text
HR. Res. 97 - Justice for All Resolution https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/97/text
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the crime of lying to Congress must be prosecuted equitably.
(excerpt)
Whereas the lack of convictions for lying to Congress is not due to the overwhelming truthfulness of testimony given, as it has been revealed and proven that many people have knowingly provided false statements to Congress without facing punishment, including but not limited to—
(1) James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, who was questioned by Senator Ron Wyden, and was asked whether the NSA “collect[ed] any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans”, to which Clapper replied “No, sir”, and “not wittingly”, a response he later admitted was “clearly erroneous”;
(2) James Comey, former FBI Director, who was questioned by Senator Charles Grassley, and asked whether he had ever authorized someone to leak information to the media, to which he responded “no”, despite reports from the Office of the Inspector General indicating his response was likely untrue;
(3) John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who was questioned by Representative Trey Gowdy, and asked whether the FBI or CIA had used the so-called “Steele dossier” as the basis for any legal proceedings of any kind, to which Brennan replied “no”, and stated further that the dossier “was not, in any way, used as the basis for the intelligence community assessment” of possible election interference, a statement contradicted by news reports, investigative journalists, and the sworn testimony of many other members of the intelligence community;
(4) Andrew McCabe, former Deputy FBI Director, who was revealed by the Office of the Inspector General to have “lacked candor” when questioned about his unauthorized disclosure of information to the media, including three instances while McCabe was under oath;
(5) Lois Lerner, former Director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, who repeatedly made false statements to congressional investigators, and who denied that she had requested overly extensive and deeply intrusive information from conservative nonprofit organizations in an attempt in order to chill their constitutional rights to free political speech, statements later revealed by the Department of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Information to be untrue;
(6) Eric Holder, former Attorney General, who—
(A) provided false information to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 3, 2011, regarding the origins of the program named “Fast and Furious”, subsequently changing his statement during testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on November 18, 2011;
(B) provided false information to the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 15, 2013, when he claimed that he had recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation, without any records indicating a formal recusal letter, required under such circumstances, had ever been drafted; and
(C) provided false information to the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 15, 2013, saying that “prosecution of the press” was something he had never “been involved in [or] heard of,” though he had personally signed off on a search warrant for the personal email account of Fox News correspondent Mr. James Rosen; and
(7) Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, who was questioned about mishandling classified data by Representative Jim Jordan during a hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and responded “there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails, either sent or received”, a statement proven untrue by reports from the FBI and the Office of the Inspector General: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved...
...(edited to clarify) That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the crime of lying to Congress, as defined in sections 1001, 1621, and 1623 of chapter 18, United States Code, must be prosecuted equitably, without regard to politics or elections.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/97/text