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ConservativeAction.org: H.Res. 581
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H.RES.581
Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of
the United States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 7, 1998
Mr. HYDE, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the following resolution which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Authorizing and directing the Committee on the Judiciary to
investigate whether sufficient grounds exist for the
impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the
United States.
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 William Jefferson
Clinton, 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.
SEC. 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.
(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 inter-
rogatory, or affidavit, any person authorized by law to ad-
minister 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.
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