rules committee

noun

a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.

First recorded in 1915–20

Being on the rules committee, there’s no consensus on anything.

Assuming these rule changes are approved by the Rules Committee, they will go before the full RNC for ratification on Friday.

Within 15 minutes of that news, a planned meeting of the House Rules Committee to set the terms of the debate was cancelled.

A suggestion that this system be reformed was dismissed out of hand by its rules committee in 2010.

Theyll be using half-backs as well as ends next year, unless the Rules Committee gets gay again!

The first suggestion of a recognition by the football rules committee of any need of a more open game came in 1903.

Later this Rules Committee amalgamated with a new committee of wider representation.

The action of the Speaker in constituting the Rules Committee was scrupulously fair to the contending interests.

Then the fate of the bill rests with the rules committee of the House.

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