IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 493 

Impeaching President Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United States, 

for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 12, 2023 

Mr. OGLES (for himself and Mrs. MILLER of Illinois) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Impeaching President Joseph Robinette Biden, President of 

the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 

1 Resolved, That Joseph Robinette Biden, President of 

2 the United States, is impeached for high crimes and mis3 demeanors and that the following articles of impeachment 

4 be exhibited to the United States Senate: 

5 Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of 

6 Representatives of the United States of America in the 

7 name of itself and of the people of the United States of 

8 America, against Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the 

9 United States, in maintenance and support of its impeach10 ment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 


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1 ARTICLE I

2 In his conduct of the Office of President of the 

3 United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, in violation of his 

4 constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Presi5 dent of the United States and, to the best of his ability, 

6 preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the 

7 United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty 

8 to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has pre9 vented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of jus10 tice, in that: 

11 Joseph Robinette Biden has weaponized the Execu12 tive Office of the President and his years of service in the 

13 White House, to include his service as Vice President, to 

14 shield the business and influence peddling schemes of his 

15 family from congressional oversight and public account16 ability. 

17 His conduct has included the following: 

18 (1) A failure to comply with numerous congres19 sional requests for information and documentation, 

20 violating a personal commitment to transparency. 

21 Members of Congress had sent numerous oversight 

22 requests and inquiries to key officials within the 

23 Biden administration in furtherance of Congress’ 

24 constitutional oversight obligations. These requests 

25 included a letter to Secretary Yellen, requesting SusVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:05 Jun 13, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR493.IH HR493

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1 picious Activity Reports for the Biden family and 

2 business associates, a letter to the Director of the 

3 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, 

4 requesting information about Hunter Biden’s con5 nection to members of the Chinese Communist 

6 Party, and a letter to then Acting Archivist of the 

7 United States, Debra Steidel Wall, regarding the 

8 Biden family’s use of Air Force Two to facilitate 

9 business transactions with Chinese nationals. 

10 (2) Several companies created after January 

11 20, 2017, by Biden family members and the busi12 ness associates of those family members were estab13 lished as limited liability companies; these companies 

14 and others were used to funnel millions of dollars to 

15 Biden family members in intricate financial webs in16 tended to deceive the public and obscure the sources 

17 of those funds. In early 2017, the Biden family re18 ceived $1,065,000 in payments over a 3-month pe19 riod from Rob Walker, a family associate; those 

20 funds were part of a larger $3,000,000 payment 

21 from State Energy HK Limited (a Chinese com22 pany) to Rob Walker’s company. 

23 (3) In 2016, then-Vice President Biden told 

24 then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the 

25 United States would rescind $1,000,000,000 in loan 


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1 guarantees unless the Ukrainian President fired 

2 Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Mr. Shokin was 

3 investigating Burisma Holdings at the time, a 

4 Ukrainian company that paid Hunter Biden more 

5 than $50,000 a month to sit on its Board. 

6 (4) The Biden administration withheld a critical 

7 FD–1023 form until threatened with a congressional 

8 subpoena. The FD–1023 form, made available to the 

9 Members of the House Oversight and Accountability 

10 Committee in June 2023, reportedly details a brib11 ery scheme in which members of the Biden family, 

12 including Joseph Robinette Biden, received 

13 $5,000,000 each to assist Burisma Holdings. The 

14 confidential human source of this form has been 

15 used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a re16 liable source of information since 2010. 

17 In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden has acted in 

18 a manner contrary to the public trust and subversive of 

19 constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the 

20 cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 

21 people of the United States. 

22 Wherefore Joseph Robinette Biden, by such conduct, 

23 warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and 

24 disqualification to hold any enjoy any office of honor, 

25 trust, or profit under the United States. 


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1 ARTICLE II

2 In his conduct of the office of President of the United 

3 States, Joseph Robinette Biden, contrary to his oath faith4 fully to execute the office of President of the United States 

5 and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend 

6 the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of 

7 his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faith8 fully executed, directly facilitated the ongoing southern 

9 border crisis and endangered the people of the United 

10 States, in that: 

11 (1) In the first five months of fiscal year 2023, 

12 106,000 pounds of drugs were seized at the south13 west border, including 11,000 pounds of fentanyl. 

14 The first five months of fiscal year 2023 saw a 

15 179.3-percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the 

16 same time frame in fiscal year 2022. 

17 (2) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

18 Agency ‘‘encountered’’ 251,978 illegal aliens at the 

19 southwest border in December 2022, the highest 

20 monthly total ever recorded; this represented 10 con21 secutive months of over 200,000 illegal alien ‘‘en22 counters’’. 

23 (3) Despite these large numbers, Joseph 

24 Robinette Biden refuses to utilize powers provided to 

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1 scribed in section 1182(f) of title 8, United States 

2 Code. 

3 (4) Since the creation of the Department of 

4 Homeland Security, the number of monthly ‘‘en5 counters’’ had never crossed the 200,000 threshold; 

6 the Biden administration is responsible for the 6 

7 highest and 8 of the 10 highest months ever re8 corded. 

9 (5) The ongoing border crisis has inflicted 

10 harrowing costs on the welfare of women and chil11 dren. The number of unaccompanied alien children 

12 ‘‘encountered’’ by the U.S. Customs and Border 

13 Protection Agency at the southwest border in fiscal 

14 year 2017 was 48,681. In fiscal year 2022, that 

15 number stood at 152,057, a 212-percent increase. 

16 Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children have 

17 been ‘‘encountered’’, trafficked, and smuggled across 

18 the southwest border in the 2 years since President 

19 Biden took office, representing hundreds of children 

20 every day. 

21 (6) Due to rampant drug trafficking at our 

22 southern border, the leading cause of death for 

23 Americans aged 18–45 can now be attributable to 

24 fentanyl overdoses; in 2020 and 2021, fentanyl was 

25 responsible for killing more Americans in this age 


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1 group than COVID–19, car accidents, cancer, and 

2 suicide. 

3 In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden has acted in 

4 a manner contrary to the public trust and subversive of 

5 constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the 

6 cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 

7 people of the United States. 

8 Wherefore, Joseph Robinette Biden, by such conduct, 

9 warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and 

10 disqualification to hold any enjoy any office of honor, 

11 trust, or profit under the United States. 

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