rules committee

American  

noun

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of rules committee

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

He argued the court should have dismissed the case as improvidently granted, leaving the rule change to the federal rules committee.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2025

“We will not be implementing a rushed virtual voting process,” Leah Daughtry and Tim Walz, chairs of the convention rules committee, wrote, and "no voting will begin before August 1".

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma, a member of the executive rules committee, said Monday afternoon that she hadn’t had a chance to read the report and couldn’t comment.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

“The rules committee really made a big stand to change a rule, and an interpretation of a rule, that has been around forever.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2023

The conference appointed a football rules committee, which, amalgamating if possible with the old football rules committee, was to adopt rules that would revise the game of football—that would make it a new game.

From The Forward Pass in Football by Berry, Elmer