What are the seven articles of H.Res.353 in full legal text and how do they cite supporting evidence?

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Executive summary

H.Res.353 (119th Congress) is a privileged House resolution that alleges seven articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump and sets those articles out in full in the resolution’s body; the complete bill text and official PDF are available on Congress.gov and the Government Publishing Office (GPO) [1] [2]. Independent trackers summarize that the resolution organizes its case into seven distinct articles (obstruction, usurpation of appropriations, trade/foreign aggression, First Amendment violations, creation of an unlawful office, bribery/corruption, and tyranny) and the full legal text — including the formal “whereas” findings that the resolution relies on as supporting assertions — is printed in the official bill documents [3] [4] [5].

1. Article I — Obstruction of Justice, Violation of Due Process, and Failure to Faithfully Execute the Laws

Article I accuses the President of obstruction of justice, denying due process, and breaching the constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws; the resolution’s full legal wording and enumerated factual findings for this article appear verbatim in the bill text published by the GPO and Congress.gov [2] [1]. The resolution’s supporting narrative for Article I is embedded in the preamble “whereas” clauses within the same document rather than as external citations, and those clauses claim actions such as threatening officials and defying court orders as factual predicates for the article [2].

2. Article II — Usurpation of Congress’s Appropriations Power

Article II charges the President with unlawfully impounding or diverting congressionally appropriated funds and thereby usurping Congress’s exclusive power of the purse; the article’s precise legal text is printed in the introduced resolution and the bill PDF [1] [2]. The resolution’s supporting statements describe specific instances of alleged impoundment and policy rescissions as evidence, again presented inside the resolution’s own findings rather than by hyperlinking to external judicial or audit reports [2] [5].

3. Article III — Abuse of Trade Powers and International Aggression

Article III alleges improper exercise of trade and foreign-policy authority, including abuse of trade powers and acts of international aggression; the exact article language is in the official bill text on Congress.gov and the GPO [1] [2]. The resolution frames its evidentiary claims about trade and foreign-action abuses within the text’s narrative findings; those findings function as the resolution’s cited support but do not substitute for independent evidentiary appendices in the bill itself [2] [3].

4. Article IV — Violation of First Amendment Rights

Article IV asserts violations of the First Amendment, including threats to press freedom and retaliation against critics, and the article’s formal language is reproduced in the resolution as introduced [1] [2]. The bill text explicitly references episodes the sponsor describes — for example, restricting access to particular news organizations — within the resolution’s “whereas” clauses to substantiate the article’s allegations, meaning the resolution relies on its internal factual recitations as the support [2] [5].

5. Article V — Creation of an Unlawful Office

Article V charges that the President created or attempted to create an unlawful executive office outside constitutional and statutory bounds; the article and its wording are included in the full resolution available via the official PDF and Congressional repositories [1] [2]. The resolution’s supporting material for Article V is embedded in the body of the text, which alleges specific organizational acts by the President as the factual basis without attaching separate evidentiary exhibits within the bill [2].

6. Article VI — Bribery and Corruption

Article VI alleges bribery and corrupt practices; its text and enumerated allegations are printed in full in the official bill documents on Congress.gov and GovInfo [1] [2]. The resolution contains narrative findings that characterize certain acts as bribery or corrupt conduct and these are presented as the resolution’s internal evidentiary claims rather than as formal judicial findings or external source citations [2] [4].

7. Article VII — Tyranny and Incompatibility with Self‑Governance and the Rule of Law

Article VII accuses the President of conduct amounting to tyranny and being incompatible with self‑governance and the rule of law; the full article text appears with the other six in the introduced resolution and is publicly accessible in the House bill PDF [1] [2]. As with the prior articles, the resolution supports Article VII through its own prefatory “whereas” statements that document alleged acts and harms — the resolution therefore cites internal findings as its evidentiary base rather than appending external subpoenas, court judgments, or investigative reports to the text itself [2] [5].

Exact, line‑by‑line legal text for each of these seven articles is reproduced in the official H.Res.353 documents hosted by Congress.gov and the Government Publishing Office; readers seeking verbatim statutory wording should consult those PDFs, which are the authoritative sources for the resolution’s full legal text [1] [2]. Reporting and aggregation sites (GovTrack, LegiScan, HillHeat, BillTrack50) summarize and host the same text and note procedural items such as notices of intent and cosponsor activity, including reports that some cosponsor names were later withdrawn — a detail explicitly reported by HillHeat about co‑sponsor listings [5] [6] [7]. The resolution’s evidentiary approach is to present factual recitals within its own text as the basis for each article rather than to footnote or append external evidentiary documents inside the bill; where independent corroboration exists, it is located outside the resolution and must be sought in separate investigative records, court filings, or oversight reports not attached to the bill itself [2] [1].

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