US Congress House Resolution 545 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Introduced on December 2 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-12-02 - Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Calling for an end to the abuse of the Standing Rules of the Senate and to improve the debate and consideration of legislative matters. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: the Standing Rules of the Senate and debate practices should not be abused to debilitate it and indefinitely block debate or a fair, up or down vote on legislative matters; after the Senate sets a new precedent to restore its workings, it should negotiate and adopt, under its existing rules of a supermajority vote to invoke cloture, a parliamentarian procedure to replace the cloture motion to call up legislation and make it pending, with a "non debatable motion to proceed to consider" that allows for the minority to offer a reasonable number of germane amendments, subject to debate, once the measure is pending for consideration; these proposed number of germane amendments and debate hours and mechanism to truncate debate could be decreased or increased at the time that the rule change is negotiated and adopted, ensuring the appropriate center between sufficient adversarial debate and the prevention of chronic stalemate is both a Senate majority and minority determination; and nothing in this resolution shall be construed as the House advocating a wholesale abolishment of a Senate filibuster mechanism or supermajority cloture requirement, or calling for the classic standing and talking Senate filibuster to be abolished, but that the House believes it should be reinvigorated. Encourages the Senate to forbid threats of a filibuster derived from an "anonymous hold," and in its place reinvigorate the "traditional standing filibuster" or "hold the floor" mechanism of dissent, with a time allocation of up to 100 hours and the ability to truncate debate only by a petition of 60 Senators.

Calling for an end to the abuse of the Standing Rules of the Senate and to improve the debate and consideration of legislative matters.

Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]
Rep. Bob Gibbs [R-OH]	Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Mick Mulvaney [R-SC]
Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Matt Salmon [R-AZ]	Rep. Joseph Pitts [R-PA]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-12-02	House	Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
2015-12-02	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/545/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hres545/BILLS-114hres545ih.pdf