“Establishing the Select Committee on President Biden's Cognitive Decline.”
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This section provides for the composition of the Select Committee by directing the Speaker to appoint 13 Members, 5 of whom after consultation with the minority leader, and to designate the chair. Vacancies are filled in the same manner as the original appointments.
This section establishes the purposes of the Select Committee to (1) investigate and report upon the facts, circumstances, and causes related to the coverup of President Biden’s cognitive decline, (2) determine who was executing the powers and duties of the President, (3) examine and evaluate evidence developed by relevant Federal, State, and local governmental offices, and (4) build upon other investigations into the coverup while avoiding unnecessary duplication.
This section establishes the functions of the Select Committee to investigate the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the coverup of the President’s cognitive decline, including the activities of intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, and the Armed Forces with respect to intelligence collection, analysis, dissemination, and information sharing, as well as the roles of technology, online platforms, financing, and malign foreign influence operations. The section further requires the Select Committee to evaluate causes and lessons learned regarding the command, control, communications, structure, coordination, policies, procedures, training, and operational planning of the Federal Government; to submit legislative proposals to the House or its committees; and to issue a final report to the House by September 25, 2026, containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations for corrective measures. The section authorizes interim reports, requires all reports to be issued in unclassified form with possible classified or law enforcement-sensitive annexes, describes corrective measures as changes in law, policy, or procedures to prevent future coverups of the President’s cognitive decline, improve public understanding of the President’s cognitive health, and strengthen domestic institutions, and specifies that the Select Committee has no legislative jurisdiction.
This section establishes procedures for the Select Committee. It authorizes the committee to study intelligence community sources and methods related to the matters in sections 3 and 4, notwithstanding clause 3(m) of rule X, and applies specified provisions of rule X to the treatment of classified information. It applies rule XI with modifications that set quorums at two Members for taking testimony or receiving evidence and one-third of the Members for other actions, authorize the chair to issue subpoenas and compel information by interrogatory, permit the chair to order depositions by a Member or counsel after consultation with the ranking minority member, allow the chair to recognize Members and staff for extended witness questioning, and permit the chair to postpone record votes. It requires reports and proposals prepared under the resolution to be made available to the public in widely accessible formats within 10 calendar days after submission of the final report under section 4(a)(4).
This section requires House committees to cooperate with the Select Committee by providing access to relevant records. It subjects the appointment and compensation of Select Committee staff to regulations issued by the Committee on House Administration, authorizes the detail of staff from House employing entities and Federal agencies on a nonreimbursable basis, and applies the consultant authority under section 202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4301(i)) to the Select Committee in the same manner as to a standing committee of the House. This section also applies travel rules under clauses 8(a), (b), and (c) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the Select Committee and authorizes payments for its expenses from applicable House accounts on vouchers signed by the chair and approved pursuant to Committee on House Administration regulations.
This section terminates the Select Committee 30 days after it files its final report under section 4. Upon termination, the Select Committee's records become the records of the committee or committees designated by the Speaker, and copies of records provided to the Select Committee by other House committees under section 6(a) are returned to those committees.