Lawmaker urges creation of 17‑member 25th Amendment panel, asks Trump physician to testify

A lawmaker told the committee that recent social‑media posts by President Trump — including what the lawmaker called instances of "impersonating Jesus Christ" — prompted a formal request that the President’s physician perform an evaluation and appear before Congress.

"I actually wrote a letter directly to President Trump's physician asking him to conduct a test and to bring it to Congress and to come and testify here," the lawmaker said, citing the precedent of President Biden's physician providing a closed‑door deposition.

The lawmaker said the House has introduced legislation to create a body, described as the panel envisioned in the Twenty‑fifth Amendment, to determine when a President is unable to execute the powers and duties of the office. Under the proposal described in the committee remarks, the panel would include 17 members, with roughly half drawn from medical professions such as physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and neurologists.

"We've only got one President and we've got to make sure that the President is physically and mentally and cognitively fit to execute the duties of the office," the lawmaker said, arguing the mechanism would allow the Vice President, together with a majority of the panel, to act in cases of incapacity. The lawmaker added that the Vice President already may act with a majority of the Cabinet under current practice but said the proposed body would provide an alternate, congressional mechanism.

The transcript records the lawmaker’s assertions and the introduction of the legislation; it does not show any committee vote or recorded action on the bill. The committee record in the transcript likewise contains no immediate response from the President’s physician or other witnesses.