Legislative Oversight

Stable identifiers

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Canonical URL: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/5

Official text excerpt

119 HRES 5 EH: Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes. 
 U.S. House of Representatives 
 2025-01-03 
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 
 
 
 
 IV 
 119th CONGRESS 
 1st Session 
 H. RES. 5 
 In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
 
 January 3, 2025 
 
 RESOLUTION 
 Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes. 
 
 
 1. Adoption of the rules of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress The Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, including applicable provisions of law or concurrent resolution that constituted rules of the House at the end of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, are adopted as the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, with amendments to the standing rules as provided in section 2, and with other orders as provided in this resolution. 2. Changes to the standing rules (a) Resolution Declaring the Office of Speaker Vacant In clause 2(a) of rule IX, add the following new subparagraph: 
 
 (3) A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of Speaker shall not be privileged except if it is offered by a member of the majority party and has accumulated eight cosponsors from the majority party at the time it is offered. . (b) Permitting electronic voting in committee In rule XI— 
 (1) in clause 1(d)(2)(E), strike clauses 2(n), (o), or (p) and insert clauses 2(o), (p), or (q) ; and (2) in clause 2, insert after paragraph (m) the following new paragraph (and redesignate the succeeding paragraphs accordingly): 
 
 (n) A committee may adopt a rule or motion permitting the use of electronic voting in accordance with regulations submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on Rules and the chair of…

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