[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 493 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 493
Impeaching President Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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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
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RESOLUTION
Impeaching President Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United
States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the
following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States
Senate:
Articles 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, in maintenance and support of its
impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
article i
In his conduct of the Office of President of the United States,
Joseph Robinette Biden, in violation of his constitutional oath to
faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to
the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to
take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented,
obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:
Joseph Robinette Biden has weaponized the Executive Office of the
President and his years of service in the White House, to include his
service as Vice President, to shield the business and influence
peddling schemes of his family from congressional oversight and public
accountability.
His conduct has included the following:
(1) A failure to comply with numerous congressional
requests for information and documentation, violating a
personal commitment to transparency. Members of Congress had
sent numerous oversight requests and inquiries to key officials
within the Biden administration in furtherance of Congress'
constitutional oversight obligations. These requests included a
letter to Secretary Yellen, requesting Suspicious Activity
Reports for the Biden family and business associates, a letter
to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Christopher Wray, requesting information about Hunter Biden's
connection to members of the Chinese Communist Party, and a
letter to then Acting Archivist of the United States, Debra
Steidel Wall, regarding the Biden family's use of Air Force Two
to facilitate business transactions with Chinese nationals.
(2) Several companies created after January 20, 2017, by
Biden family members and the business associates of those
family members were established as limited liability companies;
these companies and others were used to funnel millions of
dollars to Biden family members in intricate financial webs
intended to deceive the public and obscure the sources of those
funds. In early 2017, the Biden family received $1,065,000 in
payments over a 3-month period from Rob Walker, a family
associate; those funds were part of a larger $3,000,000 payment
from State Energy HK Limited (a Chinese company) to Rob
Walker's company.
(3) In 2016, then-Vice President Biden told then-Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko that the United States would rescind
$1,000,000,000 in loan guarantees unless the Ukrainian
President fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Mr. Shokin
was investigating Burisma Holdings at the time, a Ukrainian
company that paid Hunter Biden more than $50,000 a month to sit
on its Board.
(4) The Biden administration withheld a critical FD-1023
form until threatened with a congressional subpoena. The FD-
1023 form, made available to the Members of the House Oversight
and Accountability Committee in June 2023, reportedly details a
bribery scheme in which members of the Biden family, including
Joseph Robinette Biden, received $5,000,000 each to assist
Burisma Holdings. The confidential human source of this form
has been used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a
reliable source of information since 2010.
In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden has acted in a manner
contrary to the public trust and subversive of constitutional
government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and
to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Joseph Robinette Biden, by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to
hold any enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United
States.
article ii
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States,
Joseph Robinette Biden, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the
office of President of the United States and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that
the laws be faithfully executed, directly facilitated the ongoing
southern border crisis and endangered the people of the United States,
in that:
(1) In the first five months of fiscal year 2023, 106,000
pounds of drugs were seized at the southwest border, including
11,000 pounds of fentanyl. The first five months of fiscal year
2023 saw a 179.3-percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the
same time frame in fiscal year 2022.
(2) The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency
``encountered'' 251,978 illegal aliens at the southwest border
in December 2022, the highest monthly total ever recorded; this
represented 10 consecutive months of over 200,000 illegal alien
``encounters''.
(3) Despite these large numbers, Joseph Robinette Biden
refuses to utilize powers provided to the President by
Congress, specifically those described in section 1182(f) of
title 8, United States Code.
(4) Since the creation of the Department of Homeland
Security, the number of monthly ``encounters'' had never
crossed the 200,000 threshold; the Biden administration is
responsible for the 6 highest and 8 of the 10 highest months
ever recorded.
(5) The ongoing border crisis has inflicted harrowing costs
on the welfare of women and children. The number of
unaccompanied alien children ``encountered'' by the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency at the southwest border in
fiscal year 2017 was 48,681. In fiscal year 2022, that number
stood at 152,057, a 212-percent increase. Hundreds of thousands
of vulnerable children have been ``encountered'', trafficked,
and smuggled across the southwest border in the 2 years since
President Biden took office, representing hundreds of children
every day.
(6) Due to rampant drug trafficking at our southern border,
the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45 can now be
attributable to fentanyl overdoses; in 2020 and 2021, fentanyl
was responsible for killing more Americans in this age group
than COVID-19, car accidents, cancer, and suicide.
In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden has acted in a manner
contrary to the public trust and subversive of constitutional
government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and
to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Joseph Robinette Biden, by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to
hold any enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United
States.
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