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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1030 

Calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate 

section 4 of the 25th Amendment to declare President Joseph R. Biden 

incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise 

powers as Acting President. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 26, 2024 

Mr. BUCK submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene and 

mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th 

Amendment to declare President Joseph R. Biden incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as Acting President. 

Whereas President Joseph R. Biden is the oldest sitting 

President in United States history at 81 years old; 

Whereas President Joseph R. Biden has been televised wandering aimlessly at events, including an event with the 

King of Jordan at the White House in February 2024, 

an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit event in 


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November 2023, and a Global Fund conference in September 2022; 

Whereas President Joseph R. Biden frequently speaks publicly in an incoherent and indiscernible manner, often 

with the aid of a teleprompter, including speeches he 

gave at a brewery in Wisconsin in January 2024, a 

speech in Vietnam in September 2023, and a Presidential 

townhall with CNN in July 2021; 

Whereas President Joseph R. Biden has repeatedly fallen 

while walking up stairs, including the stairs to Air Force 

One in March 2021, May 2022, February 2023, and 

February 2024; 

Whereas, on February 5, 2024, Special Counsel Robert Hur 

issued a report finding that President Joseph R. Biden 

knowingly possessed classified material in his basement 

and other unsecured locations, but declined to recommend prosecuting President Biden because a jury may 

find that he is a ‘‘sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man 

with a poor memory’’; 

Whereas the Hur report described President Biden’s recorded 

conversations with his ghost writer Mark Zwonitzer from 

2017 as ‘‘often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling 

to remember events and straining at times to read and 

relay his own notebook entries’’; 

Whereas the Hur report stated that President Joseph R. 

Biden forgot on the first day of his Special Counsel interview when his term as Vice President ended and forgot 

on the second day of the interview when his term as Vice 

President began; 

Whereas, on February 4, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden 

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cron with former French President Francois Mitterrand 

who left office in 1995 and died in 1996; 

Whereas, on February 6, 2024, during a White House press 

conference, President Joseph R. Biden could not recall 

the name of the terrorist group that attacked Israel on 

October 7, 2023; 

Whereas, on February 7, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden 

confused speaking to former German Chancellor Angela 

Merkel with former Chancellor Helmut Kohl who left office in 1998 and died in 2017; 

Whereas, on February 8, 2024, during a White House press 

conference, President Joseph R. Biden reassured reporters that his memory was fine and then referred to 

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the ‘‘president 

of Mexico’’; 

Whereas, on February 22, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden 

met with Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the recently deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and 

minutes after their meeting, President Biden told reporters that it was an honor for him to meet ‘‘Yolanda’’; 

Whereas, pursuant to article II, section 2 of the Constitution, 

President Joseph R. Biden serves as Commander in 

Chief of the Armed Forces and at all times has access 

to the ‘‘nuclear football’’ that enables the President to 

transmit orders to our military leaders to launch a nuclear strike against a foreign adversary in defense of the 

United States; and 

Whereas President Biden represents the interests of the 

United States before hostile foreign leaders and is authorized to respond to endless domestic and international 


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emergencies, all of which necessitate a leader who is of 

sound mind: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls 

2 upon Vice President Kamala Harris— 

3 (1) to immediately use her powers under section 

4 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize 

5 the principal officers of the executive departments in 

6 the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified 

7 Nation: That the President is unable to successfully 

8 discharge the duties and powers of his office; and 

9 (2) to transmit to the Speaker of the House of 

10 Representatives and the President pro tempore of 

11 the Senate notice that she will immediately assume 

12 the powers and duties of the office as Acting Presi13 dent. 

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