Congressional Bills

This resolution provides that Kevin McCumber of Illinois is elected Clerk, William McFarland of Maryland is elected Sergeant-at-Arms, and Catherine Szpindor of Virginia is elected Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives.

House Endeavor to Accelerate a Legislative Transformation of Healthcare Act or the HEALTH ActThis resolution establishes the Committee on Health, a standing committee of the House of Representatives, and specifies the subjects within its jurisdiction. The Committee on Health is responsible for all legislation and other matters relating to biomedical research and development (including the Food and Drug Administration); health, health facilities, and health care supported by general revenues (except veterans’ hospitals, medical care, and treatment); and public health and quarantine (including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The resolution also removes these topics from the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Fair Representation AmendmentThis resolution directs specified House committees to conduct a comprehensive review of laws within their jurisdiction and to recommend changes to eliminate excessive executive branch discretion in the application of those laws. Thereafter, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform must report legislation containing all such recommendations with the short title Article One Restoration Act.The requirement applies to the following House committees:AgricultureArmed ServicesBudgetEducation and WorkforceEnergy and CommerceFinancial ServicesForeign AffairsJudiciaryNatural ResourcesOversight and Government ReformScience, Space, and TechnologySmall BusinessTransportation and InfrastructureVeterans’ AffairsWays and MeansPermanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Stay on Schedule (S.O.S.) ResolutionThis resolution prevents the House of Representatives from adjourning in August until it has passed regular appropriations legislation for the fiscal year beginning in October. The resolution specifies that it is out of order for the House to consider a concurrent resolution for its adjournment during any day in August until the House has passed all of the regular appropriations bills.

This resolution informs the Senate that a quorum of the House of Representatives has assembled, that Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elected Speaker, and that Kevin McCumber has been elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of the 119th Congress.

This resolution provides for the House of Representatives (together with the Senate) to notify the President that a quorum of each chamber of Congress has assembled.

This resolution provides for the President to be informed that Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elected as Speaker and Kevin McCumber has been elected as Clerk of the House of Representatives of the 119th Congress.

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, includingproviding 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 includeauthorizing 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.

This resolution expresses support for women nationwide to have access to comprehensive, convenient, compassionate, life-affirming, and high-quality health care.

This resolution expresses that the House of Representatives (1) reaffirms and reiterates its commitment to ensuring secure elections throughout the United States, and (2) recognizes that the presentation of valid photograph identification is a fundamental component of secure elections throughout the United States.

This resolution reaffirms that the United States in not a party to the Rome Statute and does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  The resolution also (1) condemns the ICC's issuance of arrest warrant applications for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and (2) supports Israel's right to defend itself and its leaders from unwarranted international legal actions.