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Chairman McGovern Opens First Rules Committee Hearing Examining How to End Hunger in America
Pushes for a White House hunger conference, calls on Congress and the Biden administration to equitably end food insecurity
Chairman McGovern Announces Rules Committee Hearing Examining the Hunger Crisis in America
Will explore steps Congress and the Biden administration could take finally end food insecurity in this country
Washington, DC - Today, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern announced a change included in today's Rule that will allow the House to hold one vote on broadly bipartisan legislation on this week's Suspension Calendar. The language of the Rule gives the Majority Leader or his designee the ability to en bloc requested roll call votes on suspension bills considered on April 19 or 20. This authority lasts through April 22.
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The Committee on Rules will meet today, November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following emergency measure:
- Senate amendment to H.R. 5371 – Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
The Committee on Rules will meet today, September 16, 2025 at the end of the first vote series in H-313, The Capitol on the following emergency measures:
- H.R. 5371 – Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026
- H. Res. 719 – Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk
The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:
- H.R. 1047 – Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act
- H.R. 3062 – Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act
- H.R. 3015 – National Coal Council Reestablishment Act
- H.R. 4922 – DC CRIMES Act of 2025
- H.R. 5143 – District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 5140 – To lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age.
- H.R. 5125 – District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025