Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes.
Latest action (Jan 3, 2025) — Motion to reconsider Agreed to without objection.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 3, 2025This resolution establishes rules for the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress.
The resolution adopts the rules from the 118th Congress with specified changes, including
providing that a resolution vacating the Office of Speaker is only privileged (takes precedence over all matters other than motions to adjourn) if it is offered by a sponsor of the majority party joined by eight cosponsors from the majority party; providing that the Speaker may only entertain a motion to suspend the rules on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays; prohibiting waiver (by rule or by order) of the germaneness rule (which requires amendments to be of the same subject matter as the measure under consideration); and prohibiting consideration of measures that exceed a specified long-term budget impact according to the Congressional Budget Office.Additional changes include
authorizing the use of electronic voting within a committee;authorizing remote appearances by non-executive branch witnesses and their counsel in committee proceedings; eliminating the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion; eliminating certain collective bargaining rights for employees of the House of Representatives; reauthorizing the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party; reauthorizing the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission; and reauthorizing the House Democracy Assistance Commission (an entity that advises democratic parliaments in other countries) and renaming it the House Democracy Partnership. The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 21, H.R. 22, H.R. 23, H.R. 26, H.R. 27, H.R. 28, H.R. 29, H.R. 30, H.R. 31, H.R. 32, H.R. 33, and H.R. 35.
Face Value
as passed the HouseHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Areas of law−8
Amends 2 titles of the US Code (5 and 18) rather than one.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
3 recordedOn Agreeing to the Resolutiondecisive vote
House · Jan 3, 2025
Whether to adopt the resolution itself.
On Motion to Commit with Instructions
House · Jan 3, 2025
On
House · Jan 3, 2025
A procedural vote to cut off debate and amendments. It sounds neutral; in practice it's a vote about who controls what happens next.
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