A vote related to the resolution is expected in the House on Thursday, though the measure -- a privileged resolution under the House rules -- is not expected to pass.
The resolution comes after Pelosi -- in a dramatic move captured on camera -- ripped her copy of the President's speech after he concluded the annual address to Congress. Earlier in the night, the President appeared to snub the House speaker by ignoring her attempt at a handshake.
The resolution calls Pelosi's conduct at the State of the Union "a breach of decorum" that "degraded the proceedings of the joint session."
And the speech she ripped, the resolution notes, "contained the names and stories of these patriots who sacrificed so much for our country."
The language in the resolution echoes a tweet from the White House Tuesday night assailing Pelosi for the display.
"Speaker Pelosi just ripped up: One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The survival of a child born at 21 weeks. The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller. A service member's reunion with his family," the tweet said in reference to different parts of Trump's speech. "That's her legacy."
In the Democrats' closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday, Pelosi slammed Trump's address, explaining why she tore it up afterward, according to multiple sources in the room. The California Democrat was fired up in the meeting, the sources said, and she told her members that the speech was "a disgrace" for having so many falsehoods in it.
"He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech," Pelosi said, according to one person in the room.
The frosty exchanges between Pelosi and Trump Tuesday night marked unmistakable signs of the deteriorating relationship between the two leaders, who haven't spoken in months.
Pelosi confirmed to CNN before Trump's speech Tuesday that she hadn't spoken to the President since a meeting on Syria policy in October, following which the White House released a picture of her standing up and pointing at the President, which she immediately owned and placed prominently on her Twitter page.
"You mean where he circulated the picture of my saying 'All roads lead to Putin,' that one? Is that what we're talking about? ... We haven't spoken since then," Pelosi said.
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