rules committee
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.
Origin of rules committee
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How to use rules committee in a sentence
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.
Mitt Romney Edges Out Ron Paul in Maine Caucuses | Colin Woodard | February 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTheyll be using half-backs as well as ends next year, unless the rules committee gets gay again!
Left Half Harmon | Ralph Henry BarbourThe first suggestion of a recognition by the football rules committee of any need of a more open game came in 1903.
The Forward Pass in Football | Elmer Berry
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.
The Cleveland Era | Henry Jones FordThen the fate of the bill rests with the rules committee of the House.
Citizenship | Emma Guy Cromwell
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