Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit remote voting in meetings of committees and subcommittees and to require the chair of a committee or subcommittee to recognize members at a meeting of the committee or subcommittee in the order in which they seek recognition.
HRES 38 amends House rules to ban remote voting in committee and subcommittee meetings and require chairs to recognize members in the order they request to speak. The bill directly affects committee members (who can no longer vote remotely) and committee chairs (who must follow the sequence of recognition requests). Key mechanisms include revising Rule XI to replace "proxy" with "proxy or remote" and adding a new provision mandating sequential recognition during meetings. This is a procedural change to internal House operations, not a policy shift affecting the public.
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Introduced Jan 17, 2023
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Jan 17, 2023
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Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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Jan 17, 2023
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Byron Donalds
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