119-hres255

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 255 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 255

 Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
State to transmit to the House of Representatives any record created on 
 or after January 20, 2025, under the control of the President or the 
 Secretary, respectively, relating to strikes on the Houthis in Yemen 
 and the disclosure of confidential information to a journalist on the 
 Signal application.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 26, 2025

 Mr. Meeks (for himself, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Keating, Mr. 
 Bera, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Titus, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Jacobs, Mrs. 
 Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Jackson of 
 Illinois, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Costa, Mr. Amo, Mr. Mfume, Ms. 
Jayapal, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Olszewski, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Ms. McBride, 
 Mr. Schneider, and Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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 RESOLUTION

 Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
State to transmit to the House of Representatives any record created on 
 or after January 20, 2025, under the control of the President or the 
 Secretary, respectively, relating to strikes on the Houthis in Yemen 
 and the disclosure of confidential information to a journalist on the 
 Signal application.

 Resolved, That the President is requested, and the Secretary of 
State is directed, to transmit, respectively, to the House of 
Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the adoption 
of this resolution, copies of all documents, Signal application chats, 
charts, or tables, including notes from meetings, audio recordings, 
records (including telephone and email records), correspondence, 
artificial intelligence large language model conversation transcripts, 
and any other communications created on or after January 20, 2025, 
under the control of the President or the Secretary, respectively, that 
refer or relate to any of the following:

    (1) The full transcript of the Signal application group 
 chat that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and pertained to 
 extremely sensitive and confidential plans to strike the 
 Houthis in Yemen, including all messages sent to such group 
 chat before and after Mr. Goldberg entered and left such group 
 chat.

    (2) Information pertaining to the strikes on the Houthis in 
 Yemen.

    (3) Coordination with partners, allies, and other countries 
 concerning such strikes.

    (4) Legal justifications for such strikes.

    (5) Any material produced as a result of Mr. Goldberg 
 leaving such group chat and publishing an article describing 
 his inclusion in confidential war planning, including any 
 documentation related to potential consequences for officials 
 who used a commercial application to coordinate war plans, 
 discuss whether to strike the Houthis, and include a journalist 
 in such group chat.

    (6) New executive branch process reforms, safeguards, or 
 protections implemented in response to senior national security 
 officials inviting a journalist to a group chat where highly 
 classified information was discussed, considered, and planned.

    (7) Any group chat or transcript that was used to develop 
 war plans or discuss sensitive national security information.
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