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I'm Your Puppet: The Changing Role of the House Committee on Rules

The House Committee on Rules has long been considered one of Congress’ most prestigious committees. House members and scholars alike have long admired this extremely powerful committee. Among its powers, the Rules Committee establishes the terms under which debate and amending will take place by the full House on legislation. It decides time limits for legislation to be debated. Also, the Committee is responsible for reconciling different versions of legislation before it is released to the floor essentially allowing the Committee to rewrite pieces of legislation before it is considered by the full chamber. The control the Rules Committee has over the legislative process is so extensive that a report by the Boston Globe found that in the 108th Congress only 28 percent of bills were open to amendment on the floor. It also found that “the House Rules Committee…sometimes rewrites key passages of legislation approved by other committees, then forbids members from changing the bills on the floor” (p. 2). As Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibi sums, “if you control the Rules Committee, you control Congress” (p. 3).