H.Res. 448 — Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the Cover-Up of President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s Cognitive and Physical Health Decline.

This section establishes the Select Committee to Investigate the Cover-Up of President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s Cognitive and Physical Health Decline.

This section provides for the composition of the Select Committee by directing the Speaker to appoint 13 Members, 5 of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader, and to designate the chair. It further provides that any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

This section establishes the functions of the Select Committee to investigate and report on President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s cognitive and physical health decline and potential concealment of information from the public; his cancer diagnosis and any related concealment; the roles of Vice President Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, and others in any cover up; the role of media outlets in spreading false or misleading narratives about the President’s health; the President’s use of autopen for official acts and who controlled such actions; the existence, content, and suppression of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s tapes and related evidence; and the President’s mishandling of classified documents. This section requires the Select Committee to submit a final report to the House by December 31, 2025, and to submit all policy recommendations and legislative proposals to the relevant standing committees by December 31, 2025 (with legislative proposals due within 30 days of adoption by the Select Committee). It authorizes interim reports to the House or any House committee as needed. This section limits the Select Committee to investigative jurisdiction with no authority to take legislative action on any bill or resolution, while permitting public hearings. It provides that staff appointments and compensation are subject to regulations issued by the Committee on House Administration, authorizes the detailing of staff from House employing entities or federal agencies on a nonreimbursable basis, and applies standing committee rules on consultants with the additional requirement of Speaker approval for any selection.

This section authorizes the Select Committee to study the sources and methods of the Intelligence Community related to the matters described in sections 3 and 4, notwithstanding clause 3(m) of rule X. It applies clause 11(b)(4), clause 11(e), and the first sentence of clause 11(f) of rule X to the treatment of classified information by the Select Committee. This section applies rule XI to the Select Committee with the following modifications: (1) exempting the committee from clause 2(a); (2) applying clause 2(g)(2)(D) in the same manner as it applies to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; (3) setting a quorum of two Members for taking testimony or receiving evidence and one-third of the Members for any other action; (4) authorizing the chair to issue subpoenas, including for depositions, and to compel information by interrogatory; (5) allowing the chair, after consultation with the ranking minority member, to order depositions by a Member or counsel and to recognize Members for extended witness questioning and staff to question witnesses; (6) permitting subpoenas to be signed by the chair or a designee; (7) authorizing the chair to postpone proceedings on record votes with reasonable notice to resume; and (8) applying paragraphs (f)(1) through (f)(12) of clause 4.