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Table Of Content

• Sen. Laphonza Butler, caretaker of the late Dianne Feinstein’s seat, won’t run in 2024 election
• Rules of the Committees of the House of Representatives
• House Rules Committee Debates Foreign Aid Bills, Part 1
• H. Rept. 118-463
• Rules Committee Active Bills
• Santos says there’s no need to talk to McCarthy about potentially not getting committee assignments

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, set to be the highest-ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, criticized Kevin McCarthy for trading spending cuts in exchange for votes for his bid to become speaker. “It’s just not the job I think I want to do, but what I do respect is you know, my colleagues' view of me as a leader in this chamber. And so, you know, sometimes you have to step into that gap to try to either forge consensus or get something done. A majority of those present and voting is required to get the speakership, which is usually 218 lawmakers. But if enough people skip the vote or vote “present,” the number of votes required for a majority can drop. Embattled Rep.-elect George Santos, who said he spoke to Rep. Kevin McCarthy today, said there is “no need” to have conversations with the GOP leader about potentially not getting committee assignments.

Sen. Laphonza Butler, caretaker of the late Dianne Feinstein’s seat, won’t run in 2024 election

The House has reconvened to vote for a speaker after lawmakers voted earlier Friday to adjourn until 10 p.m. Some on the far right have threatened to oust Johnson from the speakership over additional funding to Ukraine, which they oppose. The effort, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, so far has two other backers — Massie and Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona. In particular, it would allow the sale of frozen assets of Russian oligarchs to help fund future aid to Ukraine, potentially force the sale of TikTok and authorize stricter sanctions on Russia, China and Iran.

Rules Committee Hearing H.R. 6276 and H.Res. 1065 House of Representatives Committee on Rules - House Rules Committee

Rules Committee Hearing H.R. 6276 and H.Res. 1065 House of Representatives Committee on Rules.

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Rules of the Committees of the House of Representatives

Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, announced the proposal on Monday amid mounting pressure from members in both parties to hold a vote on a bipartisan Senate package that includes support for the U.S. allies. The $95 billion supplemental funding package that passed the Senate in February has stagnated for months in the House as Johnson has debated a path forward. Normally senators are assigned to committees by unanimous consent, but that motion can be filibustered. If a senator objects, Democrats would need 60 votes to appoint someone to fill Feinstein’s committee assignments. With an evenly divided Senate, they would need help from 10 senators to fill out the committees. Democrats also took the extremely rare step of voting to advance the Republican foreign aid bills out of the Rules Committee late Thursday night.

House Rules Committee Debates Foreign Aid Bills, Part 1

But a lot of the times, this is a decision that happens, and then you walk down that path,” he said. Donalds said he’s “probably not” open to the possibility of being speaker at some point in the future, but he respects being considered. Rep. Byron Donalds flipped his vote to Rep. Kevin McCarthy on Friday, but at one point during the ongoing speaker race, he received the support of 19 fellow members. Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s team believes they have the votes to win the speakership tonight and are already taking steps to organize the House soon after his expected victory, according to multiple GOP sources.

Chairman McCaul Speaks in Support of His "21st Century Peace Through Strength" Act at House Rules Committee ... - House Foreign Affairs Committee

Chairman McCaul Speaks in Support of His "21st Century Peace Through Strength" Act at House Rules Committee ....

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H. Rept. 118-463

It failed to advance out of the Rules Committee, but the House will consider it under a suspension of the rules, which means it will require two-thirds support to pass. Democrats, who stepped in late Thursday to save a resolution paving the way for the foreign aid package to be considered, will have to do so again on Friday in a critical vote on the House floor. The Rules panel vote came after a lengthy recess behind closed doors as party leaders negotiated which amendments would be allowed as part of the rule.

Colorado Rep. Boebert is in the mix as a potential "present" vote, sources say

CNN has asked the congressman-elect dozens of questions over the past several days about the federal probe into his finances and the lies he's told, and he has not responded to those questions. McCarthy’s team believes they have the votes to win tonight and are already taking steps to organize the House soon after his expected victory, according to multiple GOP sources. GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy gained more support in the 13th round of voting but ultimately failed to win the speakership. Moderate Republicans are beginning to balk at some of the terms in the package, and have threatened to vote against it. "Look, history judges us for what we do," he said, adding, "This is a critical time right now critical time on the world stage. I could make a you know I can make a selfish decision and do something that that's different. But I'm doing here what I believe to be the right thing."

In the 1970s, however, the Rules Committee was firmly under the command of the Speaker once again. As before, its primary role is to come up with special rules, to help or obstruct the chances of legislation reported to it. For the first fifty years of its existence, it accomplished little beyond simply reaffirming these rules, and its role was very noncontroversial. On June 16, 1841, it made a major policy change, reducing from 2⁄3 to 1⁄2 the fraction of votes needed in the House to close debate and vote on a bill. When a bill is reported out of one of the other committees, it does not go straight to the House floor, because the House, unlike the United States Senate, does not have unlimited debate and discussion on a bill. Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond.

Rules Committee Active Bills

A fourth bill tacked onto the package  would impose sanctions on Russia and Iran, on multinational criminal organizations for fentanyl trafficking, Iranian petroleum and missiles, among other matters. The legislation also targets the TikTok social media platform, and would give Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. up to a year to divest the app. Still, Johnson faces an ouster threat from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Massie and possibly others over his handling of the supplemental funding package. GOP Reps. Matt Rosendale and Eli Crane are also considered top targets of McCarthy allies in these final hours before returning to the floor, but it wasn't previously known Boebert is a possibility.

Several Republican members who switched their votes to support McCarthy on Friday said they are encouraged by a framework of an agreement, but provided no specifics about the deal and said talks are ongoing. But there’s now concern that McCarthy’s troubled bid for the speakership – a history-defying effort that has led to more than a dozen unsuccessful votes this week – could put further limitations on Ukraine aid. The Biden administration on Friday announced its largest drawdown yet in US military assistance to Ukraine, but there are lurking concerns that Republicans wielding newfound power in Washington could stand in the way of future aid – especially as chaos brews in the House. "If I operated out of fear over a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job," Johnson told reporters.

In the 1890s and 1900s, Reed and his successor, Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois) used the Rules Committee to centralize the power of the Speakership. Although their power to place members in committees and perform other functions was limited by a forced rule change in 1910, the Rules Committee retained its power. However, it ceased to function as the personal project of the Speaker, as it had originally; instead, as the seniority system took root, it was captured by a coalition of conservative Democrats and Republicans. As for Feinstein’s position on the Senate Appropriations committee, such a seat rarely would go to a freshman senator, particularly one not planning to run for a full term, as would likely be the case with whomever Newsom appoints as Feinstein’s successor. It might be a logical move for Padilla, though, Schiller said, who ran for and won a full term after initially being appointed to his Senate seat. California was in the unusual position of having two senators on the Judiciary committee.

The package includes provisions agreed to between Rep. Kevin McCarthy and some of the more conservative members of his conference, including a one-member threshold for a motion to vote to oust the speaker. The Committee on Rules is amongst the oldest standing committees in the House, having been first formally constituted on April 2, 1789. The Committee is commonly known as “The Speaker’s Committee” because it is the mechanism that the Speaker uses to maintain control of the House Floor, and was chaired by the Speaker until 1910. Because of the vast power wielded by the Rules Committee, its ratio has traditionally been weighted in favor of the majority party, and has been in its “2 to 1” (9 majority and 4 minority members) configuration since the late 1970s. Smith said a lot could hinge on how quickly California Gov. Gavin Newsom moves to fill Feinstein’s seat. Kamala Harris was tapped as Joe Biden’s vice president, Schumer could name a Judiciary committee replacement quickly in an effort to keep Biden’s judicial nominees moving.

After the procedural vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he was "happy the rule passed," and said if it hadn't, the House would have been forced by a discharge petition to pass the Senate version of the bill, which he referred to as a "blank check for foreign aid." The Committee has the authority to do virtually anything during the course of consideration of a measure, including deeming it passed. The Committee can also include a self- executed amendment which could rewrite just parts of a bill, or the entire measure.

Home to more than 10% of the U.S. population, California usually sees one of its senators receive a seat on the Appropriations committee, which decides how the government appropriates money, or on the Armed Services committee. Padilla could opt to let go of his seat on the Environment and Public Works committee in exchange for more power on Appropriations, Schiller said. Soon after news broke Friday that Feinstein, 90, had died overnight, Republican leaders indicated that they would not attempt to block Democrats from filling her committee assignments, including on the powerful Judiciary and Appropriations committees. House Democrats played a key role in helping GOP leaders advance legislation to provide nearly $95 billion in stalled funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, teeing up a vote on final passage on Saturday. "I don't defend the performance of the speaker, I don't defend the actions that have been taken," Good told reporters after the Friday vote.