The House Rules Committee voted late Wednesday night on the guidelines for Thursday's scheduled debate.

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In making that announcement, the officials said the administration would voice its displeaure at the House Rules Committee.

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"I expect to receive overwhelming support on the floor tomorrow, " said House Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon, R-New York.

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The matter was sent back to the House Rules Committee.

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Three female committee chairwomen will also be losing their powerful perches: Rep. Louise Slaughter at the House Rules Committee, Rep. Nydia Velazquez at the Small Business Committee and Rep. Zoe Lofgren at the House Ethics Committee.

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Chairman of the House Rules Committee.

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Beyond the personnel changes, House Republicans have also moved to change the rules of the House ethics committee, making it much harder for the panel to investigate politically charged cases.

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As part of efforts to expedite the House vote, the Rules Committee crafted a narrow plan for floor debate that winnowed about 30 proposed amendments down to six, including three aimed at the controversial core of the bill: the big increase in spending without specific offsets, which must be decided in conference.

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House Republican leaders have ordered the Rules Committee to prepare the legislation for floor action Thursday evening.

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Still, nearly half the House of Representatives, led by Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Cal.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Cal.), recently voted to lift most of the remaining restrictions anyway.

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His ethics stumbles (which included not paying taxes on a Caribbean villa, and taking a number of sun-filled trips which were paid for by corporations), were many and well known, yet went unpunished by Congress until last month, when he was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for violating gift rules.

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Sloan and others say the failure of the committee to find any violations of House rules points to the need for an outside office of public integrity to handle ethics complaints.

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Although Stenholm stopped short of calling for Condit's resignation, his choice of words was noteworthy because bringing discredit to Congress is listed as a violation of House rules in a manual issued by the House Ethics Committee.

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On May 22, the House of Representatives considered an amendment offered by its Rules Committee Chairman David Drier and by Rep. Zoe Lofgren , Republican and Democrat respectively from California -- home of much of the Nation's computer industry.

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This afternoon, the committee will conduct a hearing on the appropriate penalty for violation of House rules by Representative Gingrich.

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Agency officials began working with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman on a draft bill codifying network management rules.

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Gates testified before the House Committee on Science Technology on Wednesday about what he sees as a need to liberalize rules for H1-B visas for skilled foreign workers.

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