{"id":12905,"date":"2023-01-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2024-09-23T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:22:11","slug":"statement-on-rules-package-for-118th-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/statement-on-rules-package-for-118th-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Rules Package for 118th Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01) released the following statement after voting in support of the Republican rules package for the 118<sup>th<\/sup> Session of Congress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This framework will allow the new Republican majority to begin delivering on the agenda we promised to the American people,&#8221; said Rep. Fulcher. &#8220;I am proud to have worked alongside my colleagues to form a rules package that restores fiscal sanity, empowers individual Members, and provides a check on President Biden and Senate Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican rules package \u2013 which passed the House tonight 220-213 \u2013 enacts key rule changes, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Requiring the text of legislation to be made available at least 72 hours prior to a vote in the House.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ending omnibus bills by ensuring that bills coming to the Floor follow new single-subject and germaneness rules.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establishing a Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Biden Administration&#8217;s Federal Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The full rules package can be read <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fulcher.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/b\/f\/bf1e0561-67ee-4513-8944-648b4aaaf8f0\/0C179C14F8BDAED75B8251B90EBFEBB0.bills-118hrespih-118th-rules-of-the-house-of-reps-v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01) released the following statement after voting in support of the Republican rules package for the 118th Session of Congress: &#8220;This framework will allow the new Republican majority to begin delivering on the agenda we promised to the American people,&#8221; said Rep. Fulcher. &#8220;I am proud to have worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,824,48,42],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-press-release","tag-republican-party","tag-russ-fulcher","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12906,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}