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House Budget Committee adopts rules and oversight plan for 119th Congress
Summary
The House Committee on the Budget held its organizational meeting, adopted committee rules and an oversight plan by voice vote, introduced new members and opened the term with bipartisan appeals to address federal debt and the budget process.
The House Committee on the Budget adopted its committee rules and an oversight plan for the 119th Congress during an organizational meeting, the panel’s leaders announced Tuesday.
The committee voted by voice to adopt the chairman’s mark as the committee rules and later adopted the oversight plan after unanimous-consent procedures and motions by Representative Lloyd Smucker (Pa.). The chair said the minority had raised no objections to either measure.
The measures matter because the committee rules set the panel’s internal procedures consistent with House rules, and the oversight plan outlines topics the committee intends to examine this Congress, including supervising the Congressional Budget Office, the chair said.
The meeting began with opening remarks stressing collegiality and fiscal…
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