Committee
on Rules
The Committee on
Rules shall consist of the Speaker, the Majority Leader, the Majority Whip, the
Minority Leader, the Minority Whip, the Majority Appropriations Chair, the
Minority Appropriations Chair, 12 members of the majority party appointed by
the Speaker, and ten members of the minority party appointed by the Minority
Leader. The Majority Leader shall be chair.
The committee shall
make recommendations designed to improve and expedite the business and
procedure of the House and its committees, and to propose to the House any
amendments to the Rules deemed necessary. The committee shall also do all
things necessary to fulfill any assignment or duty given to the committee by
any resolution, or other rule of the House of Representatives.
The committee shall
be privileged to report at any time.
The committee shall,
until or unless superseded by law, adopt guidelines for the expenditure of all
funds appropriated to the House or to any member or nonmember officer by any
appropriation act.
Such guidelines
shall include a detailed statement of the general and specific purposes for
which the funds from that appropriation account may be used, as well as uniform
standards of required documentation, accounting systems and record keeping
procedures.
Except as expressly
provided in Rule 30 or this rule, the committee shall not have the power to
amend any bill or joint resolution.
