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Introduced May 29, 2025 by Buddy Carter · Last progress May 29, 2025
The bill creates a powerful, formal House mechanism to investigate alleged presidential health concerns—improving oversight and transparency—but it also concentrates authority and investigative tools in ways that risk partisan politicization, privacy intrusions, pressure on the press, national‑security exposure, and diversion of limited congressional resources.
Taxpayers and the public: Establishes an official House Select Committee to investigate alleged presidential health/fitness concerns, creating a formal mechanism for congressional oversight and potential public accountability.
Committee members, staff, and congressional operations: Grants the Select Committee clear mandate and deadlines plus strong fact‑gathering tools (subpoenas, depositions, access to classified information), enabling more complete and faster investigations and oversight.
House members and staff: Provides uniform, specified procedures for forming and filling the Committee (including a guaranteed consultative role for the Minority Leader on some appointments) and defined quorum/rules, reducing procedural ambiguity and operational delays.
Taxpayers and federal employees: Risks politicizing congressional resources—devoting time, staff, and money to a high‑profile partisan inquiry that can divert attention and resources from other legislative and oversight priorities.
Individuals (including the President) and the public: Investigating private medical matters could invade personal privacy, set a precedent for politicized scrutiny of medical records, and chill legitimate expectations of medical confidentiality.
National security and taxpayers: Granting Committee access to intelligence sources and methods risks exposure of sensitive information if protections fail, potentially harming national security.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates a House select committee to investigate allegations about President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s cognitive and physical health decline and related matters (including alleged concealment of information, handling of classified documents, use of an autopen, media roles, and other listed topics). The committee would have 13 members appointed by the Speaker (5 after consultation with the Minority Leader), authority to issue subpoenas and take depositions, access certain classified intelligence sources and methods, staff detail rules, and must deliver interim and a final report (with any legislative proposals) to the House and relevant standing committees by December 31, 2025. The committee dissolves 30 days after filing its final report.