The Resolution
The resolution is as follows:
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 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.
H. Rept. 105-795 - INVESTIGATORY POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY WITH RESPECT TO ITS IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
