[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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