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Transparency & AccountabilitySets the House debate terms for three Clean Air Act bills and a tax resolution — nothing changes for you.
Transparency & Accountability
A motion to recommit sends a bill back to committee before the last vote. The rule keeps that option for the three Clean Air Act bills, but not for the tax measure.
Under this rule, the House votes on all four items exactly as written. No member can offer a change from the floor.
A point of order is an objection that a measure breaks House rules, such as budget rules. This rule turns those objections off, so no one can use them to stop these measures or strike parts of them.
Each of the four measures gets one hour of floor debate. Half that hour goes to each side, handed out by the top members of the committee in charge.
More about this bill
Nothing here changes your money, your taxes, or any service you use. This is a House floor rule. It sets the terms for debating four other measures. It takes effect the moment the House adopts it. Three of those measures would change the Clean Air Act. One covers air quality readings thrown off by wildfires. One covers how the EPA reviews proposed laws. One sets standards for pollution that drifts in from other countries. The fourth backs tax policies that help working families. That fourth one states a view rather than changing tax law. The rule caps debate at one hour for each measure. It also blocks members from offering changes on the floor. Any real effect on you would come from those four measures, not from this rule.
Congressional Summary
This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 6387) to amend the Clean Air Act to require revisions to regulations governing the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events or actions to mitigate wildfire risk; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6398) to amend the Clean Air Act relating to review by the Environmental Protection Agency of proposed legislation; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6409) to amend the Clean Air Act to clarify standards for emissions emanating from outside of the United States, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1156) expressing support for tax policies that support working families.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Action Date
- 2026-04-15
- Date Added
- 2026-04-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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