,,iv #aafth ,,congress #ast ,session ,h4 ,,res4 #ig ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of ,,representatives ,february #d1 #bjai,mr4 ,gaetz 7for himself and ,mr4 ,biggs7 submitted the following resolution2 which was referred to the ,committee on the ,judiciary ,,resolution ,expressing the sense of the ,house of ,representatives that the crime of lying to ,congress must be prosecuted equitably4 ,whereas providing false or misleading testimony to the ,congress is a crime under sections #ajja1 #afba1 and #afbc of chapter #ah1 ,united ,states ,code2 ,whereas testimony given before ,congress1 or any of the committees and subcommittees thereof1 must be truthful2 ,whereas honest and forthright testimony is essential to the oversight and investigational authority of ,congress2 ,whereas the investigative authority of ,congress has been an integral part of its operations since its establishment2 ,whereas the inquisitorial powers of the legislature were even discussed in the ,federal ,convention of #aghg1 prior to the ratification of the ,constitution2 ,whereas1 in #agib1 a committee of the ,house of ,representatives conducted an investigation into military losses to ,native ,american ,tribes1 and the committee was explicitly empowered to to call for such persons1 papers1 and records1 as may be necessary to assist their inquiries2 ,whereas ,roger ,stone1 a longtime political strategist1 was recently arrested1 with #bi ,federal ,bureau of ,investigation 7,,fbi7 agents and #ag vehicles arriving at his home for a predawn raid2 ,whereas the indictment of ,stone revealed that the crimes for which he was arrested were one count of obstruction of proceeding1 five counts of false statements1 and one count of witness tampering2 ,whereas ,stone is one of a very small number of people who have been arrested for the crime of lying to ,congress2 ,whereas it has been widely recognized by ,members of ,congress1 legal scholars1 and historians that lying to ,congress is a crime for which very few people have been prosecuted2 ,whereas in a #bjjg essay in the ,quinnipiac ,law ,review1 ,mr4 ,p4,j4 ,meitl wrote that almost no one is prosecuted for lying to ,congress1 and that only six people have been convicted of perjury or related charges in relation to ,congress in the last sixty years2 and ,whereas the lack of convictions for lying to ,congress is not due to the overwhelming truthfulness of testimony given1 as it has been revealed and proven that many people have knowingly provided false statements to ,congress without facing punishment1 including but not limited to-- 7#a7 ,james ,clapper1 former ,director of ,national ,intelligence1 who was questioned by ,senator ,ron ,wyden1 and was asked whether the ,,nsa collected any type of data at all on millions1 or hundreds of millions of ,americans1 to which ,clapper replied ,no1 sir1 and not wittingly1 a response he later admitted was clearly erroneous2 7#b7 ,james ,comey1 former ,,fbi ,director1 who was questioned by ,senator ,charles ,grassley1 and asked whether he had ever authorized someone to leak information to the media1 to which he responded no1 despite reports from the ,office of the ,inspector ,general indicating his response was likely untrue2 7#c7 ,john ,brennan1 former ,director of the ,central ,intelligence ,agency 7,,cia71 who was questioned by ,representative ,trey ,gowdy1 and asked whether the ,,fbi or ,,cia had used the so-called ,steele dossier as the basis for any legal proceedings of any kind1 to which ,brennan replied no1 and stated further that the dossier was not1 in any way1 used as the basis for the intelligence community assessment of possible election interference1 a statement contradicted by news reports1 investigative journalists1 and the sworn testimony of many other members of the intelligence community2 7#d7 ,andrew ,mc,cabe1 former ,deputy ,,fbi ,director1 who was revealed by the ,office of the ,inspector ,general to have lacked candor when questioned about his unauthorized disclosure of information to the media1 including three instances while ,mc,cabe was under oath2 7#e7 ,lois ,lerner1 former ,director of the ,exempt ,organizations ,unit of the ,internal ,revenue ,service1 who repeatedly made false statements to congressional investigators1 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 speech1 statements later revealed by the ,department of the ,treasury ,inspector ,general for ,tax ,information to be untrue2 7#f7 ,eric ,holder1 former ,attorney ,general1 who-- 7,a7 provided false information to the ,house ,committee on ,oversight and ,government ,reform on ,may #c1 #bjaa1 regarding the origins of the program named ,fast and ,furious1 subsequently changing his statement during testimony before the ,senate ,committee on the ,judiciary on ,november #ah1 #bjaa2 7,b7 provided false information to the ,house ,committee on the ,judiciary on ,may #ae1 #bjac1 when he claimed that he had recused himself from the ,associated ,press leak investigation1 without any records indicating a formal recusal letter1 required under such circumstances1 had ever been drafted2 and 7,c7 provided false information to the ,house ,committee on the ,judiciary on ,may #ae1 #bjac1 saying that prosecution of the press was something he had never been involved in or heard of1 though he had personally signed off on a search warrant for the personal email account of ,fox ,news correspondent ,mr4 ,james ,rosen2 and 7#g7 ,hillary ,clinton1 former ,secretary of ,state1 who was questioned about mishandling classified data by ,representative ,jim ,jordan during a hearing of the ,house ,select ,committee on ,benghazi1 and responded there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails1 either sent or received1 a statement proven untrue by reports from the ,,fbi and the ,office of the ,inspector ,general3 ,now1 therefore1 be it #a4 ,short title ,this ,act may be cited as the ,justice for ,all ,resolution4 #b4 ,sense of ,congress ,that it is the sense of the ,house of ,representatives that the crime of lying to ,congress1 as defined in sections #ajja1 #afba1 and #afbc of chapter #ah1 ,united ,states ,code1 must be prosecuted equitably1 without regard to politics or elections4