House Rules Committee approves closed rule; rejects effort to restore remote voting for new parents

The House Committee on Rules on March 29, 2025, voted 9-4 to report a closed rule that sets terms for consideration of several measures on the House floor and rejected amendments that would have removed a provision blocking a discharge petition tied to remote voting for new parents.

Representative Griffith, the member from Virginia who moved the rule, described the package as providing closed rules for consideration of S.J. Res. 18 (a joint resolution disapproving a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection rule on overdraft lending), S.J. Res. 28 (a joint resolution on Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection definitions for large participants in digital payment applications), H.R. 1526 (the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025), and H.R. 22 (the Save Act). The motion also laid House resolutions 23 and 164 on the table and included language that precludes certain motions to discharge committees and strikes such motions from the calendar in some cases.

The rule as reported waives points of order and sets one hour of general debate for multiple items, provides motions to recommit or commit where specified, and designates managers for debate. It also includes a provision (section 5) that, as the committee debated, would prevent the House from voting on a separate resolution promoted as allowing new parents to vote remotely via proxy or similar means.

Representative Luna offered an amendment to strike section 5, arguing the provision “prevents the House of…