House Resolution 581 Authorising An Impeachment Inquiry of President Clinton
October 8, 1998
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
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 purposes of making such investigation, the
committee is authorized to require—
(1) by subpoena or otherwise—
(A) the
attendance and testimony of any person (including 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 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 ember designated by either of them, and may be served
by any person designated by the chairman, or ranking minority member, or any ember
designated by either of them. The chairman, or ranking minority member, or any other
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.
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