The resolution speeds House consideration of tax-related measures and reduces floor obstruction, at the cost of curtailing minority members' procedural rights and sharply limiting time for debate and amendment.
House members can begin immediate floor debate on H.Res.1156, accelerating consideration of tax-policy changes that affect working families and federal employees.
House floor proceedings will face fewer procedural delays (no points of order or division demands), reducing the chance of extended obstruction and speeding final action.
Minority or individual House members lose the ability to raise procedural objections or demand separate votes, reducing minority protections and opportunities to slow or amend legislation.
House members and external stakeholders will have only one hour of floor debate, which may cut short detailed discussion and limit opportunities for amendment or scrutiny.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Places summaries of three Clean Air Act amendment proposals into the record and fast-tracks immediate House consideration of a tax-policy resolution with one hour of divided debate and limited procedural objections.
Introduced April 15, 2026 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress April 15, 2026
Lists three separate proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act addressing how air-quality data affected by exceptional events or wildfire-mitigation actions are handled, how EPA reviews proposed legislation, and how emissions originating outside the U.S. are treated. It also sets a House floor rule that immediately brings up a separate resolution supporting tax policies for working families for consideration with limited debate and procedural protections. The rule deems that resolution as read, orders the previous question to force an up-or-down vote without intervening motions or divisions, waives points of order against its consideration, and provides one hour of debate equally divided between the Chair and Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee (or their designees).