H.Res. 5Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Michelle Fischbach [R-MN-07]
Policy area: Congress
Latest action: Jan 3, 2025 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedJan 3, 2025
Passed the HouseJan 3, 2025

What the measure doesCRS summary

This 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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 5 as introduced in House on Jan 3, 2025. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

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Jan 3, 2025Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJan 3, 2025

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House Jan 3, 2025 · the primary vote

On Ordering the Previous Question

Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes

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216 Yea 210 Nay 8 not voting

Party-line vote No voting member broke with their own party.

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All members434 members

Democratic215 members

Independent1 member

Republican218 members

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