IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 57 
Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, for abuse 
of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2021 
Mrs. GREENE of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, 
for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high 
crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That Joseph Robinette Biden, President of 
the United States, is impeached for abuse of power by ena-
bling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, 
and that the following article of impeachment be exhibited 
to the United States Senate: 
Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
America, against Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the 
United States of America, in maintenance and support of 
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its impeachment against him for abuse of power by ena-
bling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER 
The Constitution provides that the House of Rep-
resentatives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ 
and that the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on 
Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or 
other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. 
In his conduct as the former Vice President and cur-
rent President of the United States, in violation of his con-
stitutional oath faithfully to execute the offices of the Vice 
Presidency and President of the United States, and, to 
the best of his ability, preserve, protect, defend, the Con-
stitution of the United States, and in violation of his con-
stitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully 
executed—Joseph Robinette Biden abused the power of 
the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and 
other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son 
to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and 
accept various benefits—including financial compensa-
tion—from foreign nationals in exchange for certain fa-
vors. 
As Vice President, Joseph Biden was the senior 
Obama Administration official overseeing anti-corruption 
efforts in Ukraine. Hence, any illegal activity involving 
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corruption conducted by Hunter Biden within or in rela-
tion to Ukraine would fall under the purview of the Office 
of Vice President Biden and the Obama State Depart-
ment’s anti-corruption efforts. In fact, many State De-
partment officials within the Obama Administration re-
peatedly registered reservations about Hunter Biden’s role 
on the board of a corrupt company. Thus, any instances 
of corruption on behalf of Hunter Biden via his role as 
a board member of the Ukrainian-operated Burisma en-
ergy firm were either not investigated or covered up. The 
evidence of widespread knowledge, corruption, and collu-
sion on behalf of the Biden family with foreign nationals 
is clear and compelling. 
Among other examples, it has been materially dem-
onstrated that: 
(1) According to the U.S. Senate Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and 
the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the Vice 
President’s office and State Department officials 
were aware but ignored concerns relating to Hunter 
Biden’s role on the board of a Ukrainian-based nat-
ural gas company (hereafter, ‘‘Burisma’’). 
(2) According to the same sources, Hunter 
Biden’s and his family’s financial transactions with 
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Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals 
raise criminal concerns and extortion threats. 
(3) In early 2015 the former Acting Deputy 
Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, 
Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in 
Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the percep-
tion of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter 
Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns 
went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he em-
phasized in an email to his colleagues, ‘‘Further-
more, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma 
board was very awkward for all U.S. officials push-
ing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.’’. 
(4) In October 2015, senior State Department 
official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice 
President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that 
Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled 
Russian disinformation efforts and risked under-
mining U.S. policy in Ukraine. Vice President Biden 
did not resolve this conflict of interest. Instead, he 
enabled it. 
(5) In addition to the over $4 million paid by 
Burisma for Hunter Biden’s board membership, 
Hunter Biden, and his family received millions of 
dollars from foreign nationals with questionable 
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backgrounds. Specifically, the ongoing FBI inves-
tigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed that 
Hunter received a 2.8 carat diamond gift from a 
high-ranking Chinese official in 2017. Hunter Biden 
told the New Yorker Magazine that he ‘‘felt uncom-
fortable receiving the diamond and gave it to other 
associates’’. 
(6) Hunter Biden had business associations 
with Ye Jianming, founder of the CEFC China En-
ergy Company, Ltd., Gongwen Dong, and other Chi-
nese nationals linked to the Communist government 
and the People’s Liberation Army. Those associa-
tions resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. 
There exists a vast web of corporate connections and 
financial transactions between and among the Biden 
family and Chinese nationals. 
(7) Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who 
were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European 
countries and who appear to be linked to an ‘‘East-
ern European prostitution or human trafficking 
ring’’. 
(8) In 2016, Ukraine’s top anti-corruption pros-
ecutor, Viktor Shokin, had an active and ongoing in-
vestigation into Burisma and its owner, Mykola 
Zlochevsky. At the time, Hunter Biden continued to 
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serve on Burisma’s board of directors. According to 
news reports, then Vice-President Biden ‘‘threatened 
to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guaran-
tees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss [Shokin]’’. 
After that, Ukraine’s Parliament fired Shokin. 
(9) Hunter Biden received millions of dollars 
from foreign sources as a result of business relation-
ships that he built during the period when his father 
was Vice President of the United States and after. 
The financial transactions which Hunter engaged in 
illustrate serious counterintelligence and extortion 
concerns relating to Hunter Biden and his family. 
(10) Hunter Biden’s work with Chinese nation-
als connected to the Communist regime illustrate the 
deep financial connections that accelerated while his 
father was Vice President and continued after he 
left office. 
(11) On June 23, 2011, Sean Conlon, a busi-
ness associate of Hunter Biden, suggested that a 
$10 billion deal could be struck in exchange for cer-
tain persons meeting Vice President Biden. This 
shows deliberate ‘‘pay-for-play’’ and ‘‘quid-pro-quo’’. 
The email, in full, to Robert Biden, from Sean 
Conlon, is as follows: 
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(A) ‘‘So we have engagement letter if they 
get other 10 bonds they have a face value of 
10b. While it is far fetched Devon [Archer] said 
he talked to his professor and these get traded. 
We get 10% in fees. We need to get these guys 
to an event or something where they get to just 
formally meet your Dad. For follow on they can 
talk to Chief of Staff. Let me know how soon 
we can do that. V brief. If Nagi get that done 
we get more bonds to move. Regards your hard 
working partner in Positano! Sean’’ (emphasis 
added). 
(12) Emails between Hunter Biden and his 
cousin reveal that the President of Hunter’s Chinese 
Communist Party-linked firm, Eric Schwerin, re-
peatedly asked Hunter for an appointment to the 
Commission for the Preservation of America’s Herit-
age Abroad—a position he ultimately received. The 
email from Hunter to his cousin, Missy, regarding 
the request for the appointment to the Commission 
is as follows: 
(A) ‘‘Eric asked for one of these [an ap-
pointment] the day after the election in 2008. 
You know better than me what are real and in-
teresting appointments. Let’s go through the 
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list with Steve and see what makes sense. I 
don’t know how much 2016 and nepotism plays 
into it.’’. 
In all of this, President Biden gravely endangered the 
security of the United States and its institutions of gov-
ernment. Through blatant nepotism, he enabled his son 
to influence foreign policy and financially benefit as a re-
sult of his role as Vice President. He supported his son 
engaging in collusion with Chinese Communist Party- 
linked officials. He allowed his son to trade appointments 
with his father and other high-ranking administration offi-
cials in exchange for financial compensation. He permitted 
his son to take money from Russian oligarchs, including 
Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. 
In so doing, Joseph R. Biden threatened the integrity 
of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful 
transition of power, and imperiled a coordinate branch of 
government. He thereby betrayed his trust as former Vice 
President and current President, to the manifest injury 
of the people of the United States. 
Wherefore President Biden, by such conduct, has 
demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national se-
curity, democracy, and the Constitution if allowed to re-
main in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incom-
patible with self-governance and the rule of law. President 
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Biden thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from 
office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office 
of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. 
Æ 
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