House Impeachment Inquiry Resolution Proposed: BUSH, CHENEY, ET. AL.

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House Impeachment Inquiry Resolution Proposed: BUSH, CHENEY, ET. AL.

Edited on Mon Jun-04-07 10:35 AM by L. Coyote

House Impeachment Inquiry Resolution proposed on this day, June 4, 2007, herewith.

Following is a proposed resolution authorizing the House Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment inquiry of President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and any others. The resolution is modeled after the resolution that launched the impeachment inquiry of President Clinton, said having been modeled after the 1974 resolution to impeach President Nixon. Recommended submission date is June 6, 2007. Comments on proposed wording sought.

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Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary, acting as a whole or by any subcommittee thereof appointed by the 
chairman for the purposes hereof and in accordance with the rules of the committee, is authorized and directed 
to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise 
its constitutional power to impeach George W. Bush, president of the United States of America and Dick Cheney, 
Vice-President of the United States of America. The committee shall report to the House of Representatives such 
resolutions, articles of impeachment or other recommendations as it deems proper against said officers and any others.

Section 2. (a) For the purpose of making such investigation, the committee is authorized to require:

  (1) by subpoena or otherwise --

    (A) the attendance and testimony of any person (including at a taking of a deposition by counsel for the committee); and

    (B) the production of such things; and

  (2) by interrogatory, the furnishing of such information;

        as it deems necessary to such investigation.

Section 2. (b) Such authority of the committee may be exercised:

  (1) by the chairman and the ranking minority member acting jointly, or, if either declines to act, 
      by the other acting alone, except that in the event either so declines, either shall have the 
      right to refer to the committee for decision the question whether such authority shall be so 
      exercised and the committee shall be convened promptly to render that decision; or

  (2) by the committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee.

      Subpoenas and interrogatories so authorized may be issued over the signature of the chairman, 
      or ranking minority member, or any member designated by either of them, and may be served by  
      any person designated by the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member designated  
      by either of them. The chairman, or ranking minority member, or any member designated by either  
      of them (or, with respect to any deposition, answer to interrogatory, or affidavit, any person  
      authorized by law to administer oaths) may administer oaths to any witness. For the purposes of  
      this section, "things" includes, without limitation, books, records, correspondence, logs, journals,  
      memorandums, papers, documents, writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, reproductions,  
      recordings, tapes, transcripts, printouts, data compilations from which information can be obtained  
      (translated if necessary, through detection devices into reasonably usable form), tangible objects,  
      and other things of any kind, both physical and electronic in form.