Based on the rules vote (passed 220-213) we get an idea of what the Repub food fight was about ,
Here are the key rule changes:
1. a
vacate provision allows just one member of the House to make a motion to vote on changing the Speaker of the House . (called the Jefersonian motion )
Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress-Rule XVIII.Reconsideration (govinfo.gov)
2. ending Madam Mimi's covid era proxy voting and zoom participation in the House . Members have to actually show up to do their job. Also ending covid emergency funding
3.This is a biggie .... ending the
‘Gephardt Rule,’ which automatically raised the debt ceiling when budgets were passed .
Also members will have 72 hours to actually read a bill before voting on it . It imposes a “cut go” rule—requiring any mandatory spending increases be offset with equal or greater mandatory spending cuts. A 3/5 supermajority vote will be required for tax increases. It also requires each committee to submit an oversight plan that lays out what action it intends to take on unauthorized or duplicative programs.
4.set up a committee on China competition
5. Reinstate the '
Holman Rule 'which gives lawmakers the ability to change salaries and staffing of the deep state bureaucracy.It ends Dems'’experiment with staffer unionization, which threatened to tie the chamber up with crazy demands.
6.ensure that bills coming to the floor are single issue No more omnibus porkulus BS
7. Term limits put to a vote (this would require a Constitutional amendment )
8.The 'Texas Border Plan' will be put to the vote
FINAL Texas Border Commitment (house.gov)
Other reported changes
1. a move to cap spending to 2022 levels which would effectively cut back $130 billion from the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill passed at the end of the last Congress.(the Senate will most likely block this )
2. a subcommittee will be created to investigate the weaponization for political purposes of the justice and intel agencies .This subcommittee will also investigate the Twitter files .