Don Wolfsensberger at The Hill:
The Republican majority’s resolution for adopting House rules not only contained direct changes to its standing procedures, but other indirect institutional alterations ranging from budgetary processes to remote committee hearings and voting, to mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination polices for House offices.
However, in addition to those in-House additions and alterations, the resolution makes in order for the future consideration of 12 policy-related bills that will be brought up as privileged, debatable for one-hour reach, and not subject to any amendments. Five of the dozen relate to immigration and deportation. One such bill would make the assault on a law enforcement officer a deportation offense. Another would require the secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged with theft. Another bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
The other bills range from requiring that the Title IX protections of female athletes to be based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth, to prohibiting a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing, to the taxing of certain residents of Taiwan with income sources within the U.S., to the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances under the Controlled Substances Act.