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Transparency & AccountabilitySets floor rules for four House measures — and blocks members from forcing a vote to demand records.
Transparency & Accountability
Points of order are objections a member can raise when a bill breaks the House's own rules. This rule set those objections aside for these measures, so no one could raise them.
After the one hour of debate, each measure went straight to a final vote with no changes offered from the floor. The minority party kept one motion to send each of the three bills back to committee.
A resolution of inquiry orders the President or an agency head to send documents to the House. Since April 2025, House rules have stopped the 14-day clock that lets a member push one to a floor vote. This rule keeps that clock stopped through the rest of the 119th Congress, instead of letting it restart March 31, 2026.
More about this bill
You would see no change in daily life from this House rule. It sets the terms for debating other measures. The House adopted it on March 25, 2026. It cleared four items for floor votes. Those were a Homeland Security funding bill, a resolution backing that department, a D.C. cleanup plan, and a shipping bill. That funding bill covers the year ending September 30, 2026. Each item got one hour of debate. No floor amendments were allowed. One line reaches further. Since April 2025, the House has frozen the clock on a tool called the resolution of inquiry. That tool orders the President or an agency to hand documents to the House. If a committee sits on one for 14 legislative days, any member can push it to the floor. The freeze means those days never count, so nobody can push one there. That freeze was set to end March 31, 2026. This rule extends it through the rest of this Congress, which ends in early January 2027.
Congressional Summary
This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 8029) making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1128) expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5103) to establish a program to Beautify the District of Columbia and establish the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7084) to amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to the types of vessels that may enter or operate in navigable waters of the United States or transfer cargo in any port or place under the jurisdiction of the United States, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Action Date
- 2026-03-25
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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