Sponsor
Erin Houchin
Representative · R-IN
Representative · R-IN
The resolution speeds congressional consideration of an EPA disapproval and the FY2025 budget and guarantees managers’ time, but it does so by curtailing procedural safeguards and member debate, concentrating power with leaders and reducing public and minority input on significant policy and budget decisions.
Taxpayers, state governments, and federal employees will get faster congressional consideration of the FY2025 budget so Congress can more quickly set spending levels for FY2026–FY2034.
Federal employees and taxpayers will see floor time sped up and debate focused by limiting overall debate time and assigning specific managers, which shortens deliberation and ensures designated members can present committee priorities.
Federal members will be able to vote quickly on H.J. Res. 35, enabling prompt congressional review of the EPA rule.
Taxpayers, state governments, and communities affected by EPA rules will have reduced opportunity for public scrutiny and input because fast-tracking a disapproval resolution and limiting debate can shorten or sideline public and stakeholder review of the EPA rule.
House members and voters will face reduced transparency and diminished rank-and-file influence because the resolution waives points of order, treats measures as read, and limits procedural steps—concentrating control with committee and Rules leaders.
Taxpayers and federal employees will have less thorough deliberation over a major multi-year spending resolution because members’ opportunities to debate or offer motions on the FY2025 budget are restricted.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Sets expedited House-floor rules to fast-track consideration of a joint resolution disapproving an EPA emissions charge and to fast-track the FY2025 budget concurrent resolution with limited debate and waived points of order.
Introduced February 25, 2025 by Erin Houchin · Last progress February 25, 2025
Allows the House, upon adoption, to move quickly to consider a joint resolution that would disapprove an EPA rule on a waste emissions charge for petroleum and natural gas systems by applying special floor rules that waive points of order, limit debate, and restrict amendments. Also authorizes the Speaker to take the House into the Committee of the Whole to consider the FY2025 congressional budget concurrent resolution with waived readings and points of order, a three-hour general debate with set time allocations, and procedures that deem certain amendments adopted and limit further motions.