Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced a resolution Monday that calls on Kamala Harris and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against Joe Biden and remove him from office.

Buck’s resolution cites Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, saying Joe Biden is an ‘elderly man with a poor memory.’

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"Rep. Ken Buck has just introduced a resolution to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Joe Biden from office. Buck says Biden is 'incapable of executing the duties of his office' in the resolution," journalist Nick Sortor writes.

"President Biden has proven that he is no longer fit for office. His cognitive decline and lack of mental stamina has been both public and undeniable. I call on Biden’s Cabinet to constitutionally remove him from office, using the 25th Amendment," Buck said Monday.

POLITICO reports:

The retiring conservative has questioned both of House Republicans' impeachment efforts. He was one of three GOP lawmakers to vote against a recommendation to boot Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that passed the House earlier this month and has faulted his colleagues for failing to provide a credible link to date that would support impeaching the president.

“I want to make sure we don’t ruin this institution over a tit-for-tat impeachment,” he told CNN in September. “If the evidence is there … I will absolutely vote for impeachment. I don’t see the evidence at this point."

The 25th Amendment allows the vice president, along with a majority of the Cabinet, to declare that the president is no longer capable of fulfilling the duties of the office. No vice president has invoked those powers.

“The Hur report officially addressed what many Americans have long witnessed with their own eyes — that President Biden is no longer fit to successfully discharge the critical duties of his office,” Buck said in a statement to The Hill.

“Numerous instances were articulated in the report, and have played out in full public view, showing President Biden’s apparent cognitive decline and lack of mental stamina," he added.

More from The Hill:

In his report, Hur said that Biden struggled to remember dates and important events, and described the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden strongly denounced the characterization.

“The societal challenges and security threats our country faces are innumerable and require a chief executive with both strong mental and physical faculties,” Buck continued. “The time has come for the vice president and the Cabinet to put our country first and move forward on invoking the 25th Amendment.”

The 25th Amendment enables the Cabinet, led by the vice president, to remove the president from their duties if they determine they are unable to perform them. The power has never been used, but it was floated by Trump critics after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and by Republicans in recent months regarding Biden.

Multiple Republicans have floated the use of the 25th Amendment to remove Biden following the Hur report, but Buck’s resolution is the first official effort in Congress to encourage action from the Cabinet.

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