IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1030 
Calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene and mobilize the prin-
cipal 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 depart-
ments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th 
Amendment to declare President Joseph R. Biden in-
capable of executing the duties of his office and to imme-
diately 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 wan-
dering 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 Sep-
tember 2022; 
Whereas President Joseph R. Biden frequently speaks pub-
licly 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 rec-
ommend 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 inter-
view 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 
confused speaking to French President Emmanuel Ma-
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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 of-
fice in 1998 and died in 2017; 
Whereas, on February 8, 2024, during a White House press 
conference, President Joseph R. Biden reassured report-
ers 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 de-
ceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and 
minutes after their meeting, President Biden told report-
ers 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 nu-
clear 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 au-
thorized 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls 
upon Vice President Kamala Harris— 
(1) to immediately use her powers under section 
4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize 
the principal officers of the executive departments in 
the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified 
Nation: That the President is unable to successfully 
discharge the duties and powers of his office; and 
(2) to transmit to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President pro tempore of 
the Senate notice that she will immediately assume 
the powers and duties of the office as Acting Presi-
dent. 
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