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- House Resolutions of Inquiry
- The resolution of inquiry is a House procedure that seeks factual information from the executive branch. The resolution is privileged and may be considered at any time after it is properly reported or discharged from committee. It applies only to requests for facts––not opinions––within the Administration’s control. This report explains the history, procedure, specific uses of resolutions of inquiry, and identifies the use thus far in the 108th Congress (H.Res. 68).
- House Rules Affecting Committees
- This report identifies and summarizes the provisions of the House of Representatives' standing rules and certain other directives that affect committee powers, authority, activities, and operations. It is organized under seven headings: (1) general, (2) establishment and assignments, (3) hearings, markups, and other meetings, (4) reporting, (5) oversight and investigations, (6) funding, staff, and travel, and (7) other duties.
- House Rules Affecting Committees
- This report identifies and summarizes the provisions of the House's standing rules and certain other directives that affect committee powers, authority, activities, and operations.
- House Rules Affecting Committees
- This report identifies and summarizes these and other rules and directives affecting committee powers, authority, activities, and operations.
- House Rules Affecting Committees
- House Rules, especially Rules X-XIII, govern the authority and operations of its committees and subcommittees. This report identifies and summarizes these and other rules and directives affecting committee powers, authority, activities, and operations.
- House Rules and Precedents Affecting Committee Markup Procedures
- Markup procedure in standing committee of the House of Representatives generally conform to guidelines the House follows when it conducts business on the floor under a set of procedures known as consideration by the "House as in Committee of the Whole." This report briefly discusses these procedures as they relate to legislative business conducted on the floor and in committee.
- House Rules and Precedents Affecting Committee Markup Procedures
- This report briefly discusses these procedures as they relate to legislative business conducted on the floor and in committee.
- House Rules and Precedents Affecting Committee Markup Procedures
- This report briefly discusses these procedures as they relate to legislative business conducted on the floor and in committee.
- House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Procedures in the 109th Congress
- On the first day of the 109th Congress, the House agreed to H.Res. 5, which made several rules changes affecting floor proceedings. These modifications include allowing committees to adopt rules giving chairs the general authority to make the motion necessary to send a measure to the conference; adding Wednesdays to the permissible days on which suspension motions may be entertained; eliminating the Corrections Calendar; amending the rules of decorum and debate regarding references to the Senate and its members; and granting the Speaker added authority to postpone votes on certain questions.
- House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 107th Congress
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- House Rules Changes Affecting Floor Proceedings in the 108th Congress
- This report briefly discusses each of the nine substantive changes to the standing rules of the House and one standing order that affect the transaction of business on the floor.
- House Rules Changes Affecting the Congressional Budget Process in the 108th Congress (H.Res. 5)
- This report provides an explanation of rules changes.
- House Rules Changes Affecting the Congressional Budget Process in the 109th Congress (H.Res.5)
- On the opening day of the 109th Congress, the House made several rules changes affecting the congressional budget process. The House amended its standing rules regarding the composition of the Budget Committee to provide for the inclusion of a Member “designated by” each party’s elected leadership, instead of a Member “from” each party’s leadership.
- House Rules Changes Affecting the Congressional Budget Process Made at the Beginning of the 110th Congress
- This report provides an explanation of the house rules changes affecting the Congressional budget process made at the beginning of the 110th Congress.
- House Rules Changes Affecting the Congressional Budget Process Made at the Beginning of the 112th Congress
- This report discusses the changes to the congressional budget process under H.Res. 5 (an agreement made January 5, 2011), which includes six changes made to the House Standing Rules as well as separate orders also affecting the process.
- House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules
- This report briefly discusses the procedure in the House of Representatives for rules committee hearings on special rules.
- House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules
- This report provides information about the House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules where the committee has two purposes on mind: to make it in order for the house to remember a measure that was reported by another committee and to establish the terms under while the white house will debate, amend and vote for the measure.
- House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules
- This report provides information about the House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules where the committee has two purposes on mind: to make it in order for the house to remember a measure that was reported by another committee and to establish the terms under while the white house will debate, amend and vote for the measure.
- House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules
- This report provides information about the House Rules Committee Hearings on Special Rules where the committee has two purposes on mind: to make it in order for the house to remember a measure that was reported by another committee and to establish the terms under while the white house will debate, amend and vote for the measure.
- House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
- This report provides an overview of the markup procedures on the house rules governing committee. The rules of the house provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to markup legislation.
- House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
- This report provides an overview of the markup procedures on the house rules governing committee. The rules of the house provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to markup legislation.
- House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
- This report provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to mark up legislation.
- House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
- This report provides an overview of the markup procedures on the house rules governing committee. The rules of the house provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to markup legislation.
- House Rules Governing Committee Markup Procedures
- This report provides general guidance to committees for conducting meetings to mark up legislation.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report provides a description of house rules and manuals. The first section of the House Manual identifies the more substantive rules changes made by the House resolution adopting the rules of the current Congress. Also identified are citations to volumes of precedents referenced in the parliamentarian's annotations.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report provides an overall summary of contents from the House Rules manual.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report provides a brief summary of the contents of the "House Rules and Manual" that governs the procedures of the House of Representatives.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report lists out the summary of contents on the House rules manual.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report provides a brief overview of the six features of the committee system in the House: organization, hearings, markup,reporting, oversight, and publications.
- House Rules Manual: Summary of Contents
- This report briefly discusses The House Rules and Manual, officially titled Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives, which contains the fundamental source material describing procedures in the House of Representatives.
- House Schedule: Recent Practices and Proposed Options
- Many Members have in recent years expressed dissatisfaction with the way the House arranges its work schedule. The chief complaints appear to be that existing practices make inefficient use of time and do not allow predictability, generating persistent scheduling conflicts and other time pressures. This report discusses how four types of House schedule that have been practiced or proposed during the past decade address these areas of dissatisfaction.
- House Select Committee on Homeland Security: A Fact Sheet
- This report provides an outline of the fact sheet of the House Select committee on Homeland Security.
- House Select Committee on Homeland Security: Possible Questions Raised if the Panel Were to Be Reconstituted as a Standing Committee
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- House Select Committee on Intelligence: Leadership and Assignment Limitations
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- House Sergeant at Arms: Fact Sheet on Legislative and Administrative Duties
- This report discusses about Protection, securities, and Decorum Responsibilities. It also discusses about protocol responsibilities.
- House Sergeant at Arms: Fact Sheet on Legislative and Administrative Duties
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- House Sergeant at Arms: Fact Sheet on Legislative and Administrative Duties
- This report discusses the chief law enforcement officer of the House, the Sergeant at Arms, responsible for security in the House wing of the Capitol, the House office buildings, and on adjacent grounds.
- House Sergeant at Arms: Legislative and Administrative Duties
- This report provides a brief overview of the legislative and administrative duties of the House Sergeant at arms.
- House Standing Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- House rules, Republican Conference rules, and Democratic Caucus rules each detail aspects of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs and ranking minority members. This report summarizes those procedures and lists membership on each party's steering committee.
- House Standing Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report discusses house rules, Republican Conference rules, and Democratic Caucus rules each detail aspects of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs and ranking minority members. This report summarizes those procedures and lists membership on each party's steering committee.
- House Standing Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report summarizes those procedures and lists membership on each party's steering committee.
- House Standing Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report summarizes those procedures and lists membership on each party's steering committee.
- House Standing Committee Chairs and Ranking Minority Members: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- House rules, Republican Conference rules, and Democratic Caucus rules each detail aspects of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs and ranking minority members. This report summarizes those procedures and lists membership on each party's steering committee.
- House Standing Committee Chairs: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report mainly discusses about the Rules Governing Selection Procedures on House Standing Committee Chairs. House rules,republican conference rules,Democratic caucus rules each detail aspect of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs.
- House Standing Committee Chairs: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report mainly discusses about the Rules Governing Selection Procedures on House Standing Committee Chairs. House rules,republican conference rules,Democratic caucus rules each detail aspect of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs.
- House Standing Committee Chairs: Rules Governing Selection Procedures
- This report mainly discusses about the Rules Governing Selection Procedures on House Standing Committee Chairs. House rules,republican conference rules,Democratic caucus rules each detail aspect of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs.
- House Standing Committees' Rules on Legislative Activities: Analysis for the 113th Congress
- This report examines in text and tables how committees implemented House rules in their individual committee rules for the 113th Congress.
- House Subcommittees: Assignment Process
- This report provides an overview of the assignment process on the House subcommittees.
- House Subcommittees: Assignment Process
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- House Subcommittees: Assignment Process
- House rules, Republican Conference and Democratic Caucus rules, and individual committee rules all address the subcommittee assignment process, although to varying degrees. This report describes the assignment process for House Subcommittees.