Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1501) to amend the FAST Act to include certain mineral production activities as a covered project, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9436) to amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period for which certain regulations concerning the North Atlantic right whale are effective; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1490) providing for the condemnation and denouncement of socialism in all its forms, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4795) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit an institution that participates in a nonexpressive commercial boycott of Israel from being eligible for certain funds under that Act, to require an institution that participates in certain programs under that Act to certify that students are not unreasonably obstructed from participating in academic programs in Israel, and for other purposes; and relating to consideration of motions to suspend the rules.

SI-generated grade · five published checks · not individually reviewed by a person · methodology

House rule governing debate on listed bills is expressly authorized by Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 and restricts no private rights, property, or process. Any First Amendment concern attaches to the underlying boycott bill, not to scheduling its consideration.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The House has express authority to set its own proceedings under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2, which provides each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings. Providing for consideration of listed bills and resolutions and governing motions to suspend the rules is a direct exercise of that grant.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  This resolution itself abridges no protected right under Amendments 1-10. It schedules debate and votes; it does not punish speech, disarm, authorize searches under the Fourth Amendment, or take property. The underlying H.R. 4795 boycott provision could raise First Amendment speech and association questions if enacted, but this rule does not enact that substantive restriction, so no direct infring…
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution restricts no private conduct concerning person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs only legislative procedure and imposes no mandate, prohibition, or condition on private individuals, so the government bears no additional burden of justification here under the First Amendment and Ninth Amendment liberty principles.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Ordering House floor business cannot be done by individuals, localities, or states; it is an internal House function. It does not move substantive regulatory power from a lower to a higher level and does not implicate the Tenth Amendment reservation of powers.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, no criminal process under Amendments 6-7 is triggered, and no property is taken for public use requiring just compensation. The measure creates no penalty, seizure, or transfer of property.

Sources: Congress.gov: HRES 1499 summary