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House Rules Committee reviews HR 4 to reorganize standing committees, holds unanimous straw poll
Summary
The House Rules Committee reviewed House Resolution HR 4 on Jan. 8, 2025, a proposal to amend House Rule 25 that changes membership counts and splits the current Environment and Energy committee into two committees; the committee registered a unanimous 7-0 straw poll in favor.
The House Rules Committee on Jan. 8 reviewed House Resolution HR 4, a proposal to amend House Rule 25 to change membership sizes across several standing committees and to split the existing Environment and Energy committee into two separate committees.
Betsy Ann, the committee clerk, read the proposed changes, saying, “This would amend House Rule 25, which sets forth the House standing committees, and you'll see the committees are set there in column 1, the members are in column 2, and their subject matter is column 3.”
The resolution would: reduce membership on the Agriculture, Food, Resiliency, and Forestry Committee from 11 to 8 and on Appropriations from 12 to 11; change punctuation in the Corrections and Institutions listing; reduce Education from 12 to 11 members; split the current Environment and Energy…
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