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Changes from the rules for the previous Congress include measures to facilitate the operation of Congress during the ongoing COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic."},{"k":"p","t":"The resolution makes the Office of Diversity and Inclusion permanent, revises language in the rules to be gender-inclusive, and continues requirements to protect congressional employees from harassment and discrimination. The resolution also implements measures to protect whistle-blowers and increase congressional transparency."},{"k":"p","t":"The resolution authorizes necessary amounts for the Committee on House Administration to resolve contested elections. Additionally, the Clerk of the House of Representative must establish a process for House Members to indicate their support for Senate-passed measures that have been received by the House, including maintaining a publicly available list of Members supporting each measure."},{"k":"p","t":"The chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust an estimate concerning the fiscal impact of legislation to exempt the budgetary effects of measures to prevent, prepare for, or respond to economic or public health consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as measures to prevent, prepare for, or respond to economic, environmental, or public health consequences resulting from climate change."},{"k":"p","t":"Until the Committee on Oversight and Reform has adopted rules, the chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis may issue subpoenas related to its investigation into political interference in the response to the coronavirus pandemic at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."},{"k":"p","t":"The resolution also reauthorizes specified commissions, offices, and committees, and establishes a Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth."}],"words":283},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Adopts the House rules of the 116th Congress as the rules of the House for the 117th Congress, with amendments to the standing rules, separate orders, continued and new committees and commissions, and orders of business for early in the session.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#H76ABC9F966D947C888E74B97FEAD3BF8"},{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HAC39B98F9F4949919EDCB6D336330FD0"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HCEAD2EFE2A2F47BF91DE810E5BFC5AF3"},{"label":"Sec. 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and an Office of the Whistleblower Ombuds in House rule II and sets the duties of each.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HAC39B98F9F4949919EDCB6D336330FD0"}},{"text":"Adds a rule making it not in order to consider a bill or joint resolution under a special order of business from the Committee on Rules that has not been reported by a committee, with listed exceptions, and not before March 1 of an odd-numbered year.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HAC39B98F9F4949919EDCB6D336330FD0"}},{"text":"Applies House Resolution 965 of the 116th Congress, on remote voting by proxy and remote committee activity, in the 117th Congress with three stated exceptions.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HCEAD2EFE2A2F47BF91DE810E5BFC5AF3"}},{"text":"Establishes a Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth of 15 members, with no legislative jurisdiction, and provides not more than $500,000 for its expenses from noon on January 3, 2021, to March 31, 2021.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#H85872AC40EA24B07831EC9D027B6A30C"}},{"text":"Provides that from January 3 through January 28, 2021, the Journal is considered approved, the Chair may declare the House adjourned, and the Speaker may entertain motions to suspend the rules at any time through January 28, 2021.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HAB84E43DD4234EDE8E48158C3744EE3F"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"narrow_beneficiary","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HCEAD2EFE2A2F47BF91DE810E5BFC5AF3"},"heading":"Separate orders","effect":"Lets Members transfer salary funds to dedicated accounts run by an 'eligible Congressional Member Organization', defined by criteria including that at least 15 Members used shared employees in the 116th Congress, without naming any organization.","amount":null,"quote":"During the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, at least 15 Members of the House of Representatives used a portion of the Members’ Representational Allowance of the Member for the salary and related expenses of an employee"}]},{"category":"named_funding","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#H85872AC40EA24B07831EC9D027B6A30C"},"heading":"Committees, commissions, and House offices","effect":"Establishes the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth and provides not more than $500,000 for its expenses from January 3, 2021 through March 31, 2021. The section also continues a commission named for a person, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.","amount":"$500,000","quote":"There shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives not more than $500,000 for the expenses of the Select Committee"}]},{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh#HAC39B98F9F4949919EDCB6D336330FD0"},"heading":"Changes to the standing rules","effect":"Adds a House rule that a bill or joint resolution brought up under a special order must first have been reported by a committee, with exceptions for certain bills and no application before March 1 of an odd-numbered year.","amount":null,"quote":"Paragraph (a) does not apply before March 1 of an odd-numbered year."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2021-01-04","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/8/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hres-8.png","v":"06324a44bfa6","alt":"Votes on Record. H.Res. 8, 117th Congress: Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes. House: 217 Yea, 206 Nay. Outcome: Agreed to in House, 4 Jan 2021."}}