Sponsor
Nicholas A. Langworthy
Representative · R-NY
Representative · R-NY
The resolution trades faster, more certain floor action on several substantive bills (accelerating protections and regulatory changes) for sharply limited debate, amendment, and oversight, concentrating decision-making with committee leaders and reducing member, stakeholder, and public input.
Multiple stakeholder groups (citizens affected by mining, energy, endangered species, and trafficking laws) see faster congressional consideration and potential enactment of H.R.1366, H.R.3616, endangered species changes, and William Wilberforce Act amendments because the resolution allows immediate floor consideration.
Children and trafficking victims: the bill advances stronger measures to combat child trafficking by moving amendments to the William Wilberforce Act more quickly, potentially increasing protections and services for child victims.
Committee members and leadership: the rules preserve a short, structured debate period (one hour) and retain a single motion to recommit and committee substitute, helping ensure orderly floor consideration and that committee-crafted language moves intact.
House members and their constituents lose opportunities to amend, scrutinize, and fully debate measures because the resolution waives points of order, deems committee substitutes adopted, limits debate to one hour, and limits motions, reducing legislative oversight.
Minority members and other rank-and-file representatives face reduced influence as authority is concentrated with committee leaders (limiting intervening motions and amendment opportunities), shrinking minority opportunities to shape final policy.
The public, state and local officials, and stakeholders may have reduced transparency and input because faster procedures leave less time for outside review, hearings, or stakeholder engagement before final passage.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes expedited House floor consideration for several separate bills by waiving points of order, adopting committee substitutes, limiting debate to one hour, and allowing one motion to recommit.
Sets special House floor procedures to speed consideration of several unrelated public bills. For each named bill, the resolution waives points of order, deems committee substitute amendments adopted, limits debate to one hour (equally divided), allows a single motion to recommit, and orders the previous question for final passage without intervening motions in most cases. The measure is procedural: it does not change policy directly but changes how the House will consider and vote on several separate bills addressing topics like hardrock mine site location and an abandoned-mines fund; gray wolf delisting under the Endangered Species Act; FERC regulation review affecting bulk-power reliability; energy-sector regulation; and changes to child trafficking law implementation. These rules shorten debate, waive formal points of order, and streamline final passage procedures for each covered bill when the resolution is adopted.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4776) to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify ambiguous provisions and facilitate a more efficient, effective, and timely environmental review process; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1366) to provide for the location of multiple hardrock mining mill sites, to establish the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Fund, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 845) to require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3616) to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to review regulations that may affect the reliable operation of the bulk-power system; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3632) to amend the Federal Power Act to adjust the requirements for orders, rules, and regulations relating to furnishing adequate service, to require owners or operators of generating facilities to provide notice of planned retirements of certain electric generating units, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4371) to amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to enhance efforts to combat the trafficking of children.
Introduced December 16, 2025 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress December 16, 2025