Summary

Allows the House to take up two separate Congressional Review Act disapproval measures that would overturn recent executive-branch rules (one from the Environmental Protection Agency on a waste emissions charge for petroleum and natural gas systems and one from the Department of Energy on energy conservation standards for certain gas water heaters). It also authorizes consideration of a concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 and budget levels through 2034. The resolution sets specific floor procedures: it waives points of order, treats the measures as read, limits debate time, allocates control of debate to committee leaders or designees, restricts amendment options, and provides for a single motion to recommit for each disapproval measure. These procedural rules speed floor consideration, narrow opportunities for amendments and extended debate, and determine the parliamentary path for votes on the two regulatory disapprovals and the concurrent budget resolution.

Key Points

• Authorizes expedited floor consideration of two Congressional Review Act disapproval measures targeting recent agency rules.
• Permits Committee of the Whole consideration of a concurrent budget resolution for FY2025 and budget levels for 2026–2034 with tight time limits.
• Waives points of order and treats the covered measures as read, reducing procedural obstacles to floor votes.
• Limits debate time for each disapproval measure to one hour and caps budget debate to three hours with specified time allocations.
• Restricts amendments to technical, mathematically consistent changes for the budget resolution and bars division of the question.
• Provides only one motion to recommit for each disapproval measure, preserving a single final procedural option.
• Speeds House action and narrows opportunities for extended debate, amendment, and procedural challenges.
• Directly affects the parliamentary path for overturning two agency rules and for establishing congressional budget levels.

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