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

IV 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 Rep- resentatives. 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 resolu- tion; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics 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 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:50 Oct 16, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR1194.IH HR1194 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HRES 1194 IH it passed in the 115th Congress, with the majority of its attention being turned to committee hearings inves- tigating the President and his aides; Whereas, on September 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi uni- laterally 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 incor- rectly 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 com- mittees 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 re- ceived 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 con- tradiction to her hypocritical admonitions of the Presi- dent’s actions during the coronavirus; VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:50 Oct 16, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR1194.IH HR1194 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HRES 1194 IH Whereas in the days following her unlawful hair salon ap- pointment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast blame on the sa- lon’s owner for ‘‘setting her up’’; Whereas, on September 21, 2020, Speaker Pelosi, while dis- cussing the possibility of a second attempt by her to im- peach 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 ade- quately 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 Presi- dent 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 remov- ing the President from office, the first of which is im- peachment, 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; VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:50 Oct 16, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR1194.IH HR1194 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •HRES 1194 IH Whereas any efforts outside of impeachment to remove Presi- dent Trump must have the consent of Vice President Mike Pence; Whereas Speaker Pelosi has historically ignored the Constitu- tion’s obligations and requirements and has recently sig- naled she will do so again in her continuing efforts to re- move 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 Rep- 1 resentatives that— 2 (1) Representative Nancy Pelosi is mentally 3 unfit to continue serving as Speaker of the House of 4 Representatives; and 5 (2) Representative Nancy Pelosi should be re- 6 moved from her position as Speaker. 7 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:50 Oct 16, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HR1194.IH HR1194 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS