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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 stands in recess subject to the call of the Chair.
The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, July 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:
- H.J. Res. 104 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to ‘‘Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment’’.
- H.J. Res. 105 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to ‘‘North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan’’.
- H.J. Res. 106 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to ‘‘Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan’’.
- H.R. 3486 – Stop Illegal Entry Act
- H.R. 3898 – PERMIT Act
This meeting is now postponed subject to the call of the Chair.
The Committee on Rules will meet Today, July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PMET in H-313, The Capitol on the following emergency measure:
- H. Res. ____ – Directing the Clerk to make certain engrossment modifications
The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, July 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:
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