IV 
House Calendar No. 54 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 918 
[Report No. 118–314] 
Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part 
of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient 
grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitu-
tional power to impeach Joseph Biden, President of the United States 
of America, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2023 
Mr. ARMSTRONG submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
DECEMBER 12, 2023 
Reported from the Committee on Rules; referred to the House Calendar and 
ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing inves-
tigations as part of the existing House of Representatives 
inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the 
House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional 
power to impeach Joseph Biden, President of the United 
States of America, and for other purposes. 
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Resolved, That the Committees on Oversight and Ac-
countability, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary are di-
rected to continue their ongoing investigations as part of 
the House of Representatives inquiry into whether suffi-
cient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to 
exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Joseph 
Biden, President of the United States of America, includ-
ing as set forth in the memorandum issued by the Chairs 
of the Committees on Oversight and Accountability, Ways 
and Means, and Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives, entitled ‘‘Impeachment Inquiry’’, dated September 
27, 2023. 
SEC. 2. INVESTIGATIVE PROCEEDINGS BY THE COMMITTEE 
ON OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 
For the purpose of continuing the investigation de-
scribed in the first section of this resolution, the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Accountability is authorized to 
conduct proceedings pursuant to this resolution as follows: 
(1) The chair of the Committee on Oversight 
and Accountability may designate an open hearing 
or hearings pursuant to this section. 
(2) Notwithstanding clause 2(j)(2) of rule XI of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives, upon rec-
ognition by the chair for such purpose under this 
paragraph during any hearing designated pursuant 
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to paragraph (1), the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Oversight and Ac-
countability shall be permitted to question witnesses 
for equal specified periods of longer than five min-
utes, as determined by the chair. The time available 
for each period of questioning under this paragraph 
shall be equal for the chair and the ranking minority 
member. The chair may confer recognition for mul-
tiple periods of such questioning, but each period of 
questioning shall not exceed 90 minutes in the ag-
gregate. Only the chair and ranking minority mem-
ber, or an employee of the Committee on Oversight 
and Accountability if yielded to by the chair or rank-
ing minority member, may question witnesses during 
such periods of questioning. At the conclusion of 
questioning pursuant to this paragraph, the com-
mittee shall proceed with questioning under the five- 
minute rule pursuant to clause 2(j)(2)(A) of rule XI. 
(3) To allow for full evaluation of minority wit-
ness requests, the ranking minority member may 
submit to the chair, in writing, any requests for wit-
ness testimony relevant to the investigation de-
scribed in the first section of this resolution within 
72 hours after notice is given for the first hearing 
designated pursuant to paragraph (1). Any such re-
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quest shall be accompanied by a detailed written jus-
tification of the relevance of the testimony of each 
requested witness to the investigation described in 
the first section of this resolution. 
(4)(A) The ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability is au-
thorized, with the concurrence of the chair of the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability, to re-
quire, as deemed necessary to the investigation— 
(i) by subpoena or otherwise— 
(I) the attendance and testimony of 
any person (including at a taking of a dep-
osition); and 
(II) the production of books, records, 
correspondence, memoranda, papers, and 
documents; and 
(ii) by interrogatory, the furnishing of in-
formation. 
(B) In the case that the chair declines to con-
cur in a proposed action of the ranking minority 
member pursuant to subparagraph (A), the ranking 
minority member shall have the right to refer to the 
committee for decision the question whether such 
authority shall be so exercised and the chair shall 
convene the committee promptly to render that deci-
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