Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
This resolution creates a temporary House committee called the Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs and amends the House rules to set out its duties. The committee is charged with researching and listing underperforming or nonessential federal programs, issuing annual reports, and submitting legislation and rescissions to the House to eliminate those programs. It sets the committee membership, requires a chair and vice chair from different parties, and provides that the committee will cease to exist at the close of the 120th Congress. The resolution also adds expedited procedures for how the House will consider bills reported by this committee, including limits on debate and prohibitions on amendments or motions to recommit.
This is a House-only rules change, so it does not go to the Senate or the President and does not itself make law beyond House procedure. It creates special consideration rules for the committee's bills: a privileged motion to proceed after seven days, a 10-hour total debate equally divided, no amendments or motions to recommit, and no reconsideration.
Creates a temporary House Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs to research, list, and recommend modification or elimination of underperforming or nonessential federal programs.
Specifies membership drawn from Appropriations, Budget, Oversight, and Ways and Means, plus a Speaker-appointed Chair and minority-appointed Vice Chair from outside those committees; requires bipartisan representation and sunsets at the close of the 120th Congress.
Requires at least annual reports and proposed legislation/rescissions, and establishes expedited floor procedures limiting debate, amendments, and motions to recommit for bills the committee reports.
Likely to succeed in the House if majority leadership backs it; procedural and partisan objections could reduce prospects.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well‑specified amendment to House rules in terms of structural and procedural changes, with clear textual changes to Rule X and concrete floor procedures. It establishes membership rules, reporting cadence, and a sunset, and includes some partisan balance requirements.
Progressives emphasize risks to social programs; conservatives emphasize spending cuts.
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Progressives emphasize risks to social programs; conservatives emphasize spending cuts.
Skeptical and wary.
Views the committee's mandate and expedited rules as likely to be used to cut social programs and limit legislative scrutiny.
Appreciates the time-limited nature and bipartisan membership requirement, but worries criteria are vague.
Cautiously open.
Sees value in structured review to reduce waste and improve efficiency, but concerned about procedural limits that reduce deliberation.
Values bipartisan membership and sunset clause but wants clearer standards and independent review.
Generally favorable.
Views the committee as a tool to cut unnecessary spending and rescind programs efficiently.
Approves expedited floor procedures and cross-committee membership, though some may want even broader authority or permanency.
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Likely to succeed in the House if majority leadership backs it; procedural and partisan objections could reduce prospects.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize risks to social programs; conservatives emphasize spending cuts.
Likely to succeed in the House if majority leadership backs it; procedural and partisan objections could reduce prospects.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well‑specified amendment to House rules in terms of structural and procedural changes, with clear textual changes to Rule X and concrete floor procedures. It est…
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