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Introduced June 4, 2025 by Jimmy Patronis · Last progress June 4, 2025
The bill strengthens congressional oversight and public transparency about the President's fitness by empowering a Select Committee with broad investigatory tools and reporting requirements, but it raises substantial risks of politicization, costs and burdens on agencies and taxpayers, privacy and reputational harms, and potential exposure of sensitive information.
All Americans gain clearer, centralized congressional oversight and transparency about the President's fitness and who exercised presidential powers during the alleged coverup, making it easier for the public to hold leadership accountable.
The Select Committee is given substantial investigatory tools — clear procedural rules, subpoena and deposition authority, access to House records, classified sources (under controls), detailees, outside consultants, and House funding — enabling a thorough and timely inquiry.
Members of the public will receive timely access to the committee's final reports and proposals (within 10 days), increasing transparency and public awareness of findings and recommendations.
The process risks politicizing medical judgments about the President and fueling partisan conflict and public mistrust, as accusatory findings and high-profile inquiries can turn medical or fitness questions into political attacks.
Investigations will consume House and agency staff time and taxpayer funds; sustained or extensive inquiries could divert resources from other priorities while producing limited new findings.
The committee's broad authority to obtain records, subpoenas, and classified information — coupled with limited specified due‑process protections — could produce reputational harm, invade privacy, or publicize unverified medical allegations about the President and others.
Based on analysis of 9 sections of legislative text.
Creates a House Select Committee to investigate allegations that President Biden and his staff concealed the extent of his cognitive decline. The committee would have 13 members appointed by the Speaker, subpoena and investigatory powers, access to classified intelligence and law‑enforcement materials, authority to request executive branch personnel details, and must issue a final public report with recommendations by September 25, 2026. The committee must terminate 30 days after filing its final report and may propose legislative or procedural changes but is explicitly denied authority to act directly on bills or resolutions.