3.0.0 512 2023-01-11T13:38:38Z 2023-01-11T13:38:38Z House HRES 2017-09-08 115 hsru00 Rules Committee House Standing Referred to 2017-09-08T13:01:50Z 2017-09-08 Referred to the House Committee on Rules. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsru00 Rules Committee 2017-09-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2017-09-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000800 Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large] Peter Welch D VT N Congress Budget deficits and national debt Congressional operations and organization House of Representatives Legislative rules and procedure Senate Congress 00 2017-09-08 Introduced in House 2017-11-14T22:13:31Z Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to: (1) redesignate Rule XXIX (General Provisions) as Rule XXX; and (2) insert after Rule XXVIII (Reserved) new Rule XXIX (Statutory Limit on Public Debt) to reinstate the "Gephardt rule," repealed by H.Res. 5 (adopting the Rules of the House for the 112th Congress).

The Gephardt rule: (1) provided for an automatic engrossment and transmittal to the Senate of a joint resolution changing the public debt limit, upon the adoption of a budget resolution; and (2) avoided a separate vote in the House on public debt-limit legislation.

]]> Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to reinstate the "Gephardt rule". Display Title Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to reinstate the "Gephardt rule". Official Title as Introduced Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to reinstate the "Gephardt rule". Introduced in House 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115hres512ih/xml/BILLS-115hres512ih.xml 2017-09-08 Referred to the House Committee on Rules. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.