Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Nancy Pelosi should be removed from her position as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Representative Nancy Pelosi is unfit to continue serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives and should be removed from that position.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1194 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1194

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Nancy Pelosi 
    should be removed from her position as Speaker of the House of 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2020

Mr. Collins of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Hice of 
Georgia, Mr. Budd, and Mr. Duncan) submitted the following resolution; 
             which was referred to the Committee on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Nancy Pelosi 
    should be removed from her position as Speaker of the House of 
                            Representatives.

Whereas Representative Nancy Pelosi assumed the office of Speaker of the House 
        of Representatives on January 3, 2019;
Whereas since January 3, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent the majority of 
        the House of Representative's time pursuing baseless and fruitless 
        investigations against the administration of President Donald J. Trump 
        and those close to him;
Whereas under the reign of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House of Representatives 
        has passed hundreds fewer bills than it passed in the 115th Congress, 
        with the majority of its attention being turned to committee hearings 
        investigating the President and his aides;
Whereas, on September 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi unilaterally and 
        unconstitutionally announced that the House of Representatives would 
        begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump;
Whereas, on October 15, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi incorrectly stated that there 
        is ``no requirement'' to vote to begin impeachment proceedings against 
        the President of the United States;
Whereas, on October 31, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi oversaw the first party-line 
        vote to begin an impeachment inquiry into a President in the history of 
        our country, permitting a resolution that denied the President due 
        process;
Whereas Speaker Nancy Pelosi permitted several House committees to embark on a 
        fishing expedition in hopes she could justify her efforts to impeach 
        President Trump, only to push through baseless articles of impeachment, 
        impeaching President Trump on December 18, 2019;
Whereas, on February 5, 2020, Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up the State of the 
        Union speech delivered by President Trump before the American people;
Whereas, on August 31, 2020, Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a shuttered hair salon 
        in San Francisco where she received a blowout without wearing a mask in 
        violation of San Francisco's laws concerning the coronavirus, forcing 
        the salon owner to do her hair, an action in stark contradiction to her 
        hypocritical admonitions of the President's actions during the 
        coronavirus;
Whereas in the days following her unlawful hair salon appointment, Speaker Nancy 
        Pelosi cast blame on the salon's owner for ``setting her up'';
Whereas, on September 21, 2020, Speaker Pelosi, while discussing the possibility 
        of a second attempt by her to impeach President Trump, appeared confused 
        and exhibited bizarre behavior during an ABC interview, blurting out 
        randomly ``Good Morning, Sunday Morning'';
Whereas during the tenure of her speakership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has started 
        to demonstrate a decline in mental fitness, calling into question her 
        ability to adequately serve the House of Representatives and the 
        American people;
Whereas Speaker Nancy Pelosi, having failed in all previous endeavors to remove 
        President Trump, is now calling for an invocation of the 25th Amendment, 
        claiming President Trump is unfit to continue serving as President;
Whereas the 25th Amendment provides that the Vice President shall become 
        President ``in case of the removal of the President from office or of 
        his death or resignation'';
Whereas the Constitution provides two processes for removing the President from 
        office, the first of which is impeachment, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi 
        unsuccessfully attempted, and the second of which requires the Vice 
        President and a majority of ``either the principal officers of the 
        executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law 
        provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the 
        Speaker'' a written declaration that the President is unable to 
        discharge the power and duties of his office;
Whereas any efforts outside of impeachment to remove President Trump must have 
        the consent of Vice President Mike Pence;
Whereas Speaker Pelosi has historically ignored the Constitution's obligations 
        and requirements and has recently signaled she will do so again in her 
        continuing efforts to remove President Trump;
Whereas, as Speaker of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is third in the line of 
        succession; and
Whereas Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unwillingness to abide by the Constitution and 
        her recent actions that call into question her own mental fitness to 
        continue serving as Speaker of the House demand her removal from the 
        line of succession: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) Representative Nancy Pelosi is mentally unfit to 
        continue serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
        and
            (2) Representative Nancy Pelosi should be removed from her 
        position as Speaker.
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