Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.

Enumerated powers · passes

The House has explicit authority to determine its own internal rules and order of business under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2, which provides that Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings. Waiving clause 6(a) of Rule XIII for specified reconciliation-related resolutions through a stated legislative day is a direct exercise of that rulemaking power, not an exercise of unenumerated substantive power under Article I, Section 8.

Bill of Rights · passes

No provision of the first ten Amendments is implicated. The resolution does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly under the First Amendment, does not affect arms under the Second Amendment, and authorizes no search, seizure, or surveillance under the Fourth Amendment. It creates no criminal liability or penalty implicating the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendments, and reserves no power to the states issue under the Tenth Amendment because House procedure is an exclusively federal internal matter.

Individual liberty · passes

The resolution restricts no personal conduct, property use, labor, belief, or expression. It changes only the voting threshold for same-day House consideration of Rules Committee reports. No individual liberty interest requires government justification here because no individual freedom is burdened, so the burden analysis under the Ninth Amendment and liberty principles is satisfied.

Decentralization · passes

The four-question test does not favor lower-level handling because the subject is internal House procedure, which by design cannot be handled at a lower level. (1) Individuals cannot set House floor procedure. (2) Local communities cannot set House procedure. (3) States cannot set House procedure. (4) The action does not consolidate substantive policy power upward to the federal level; it only governs timing of House consideration. No Tenth Amendment violation.

Due process and takings · passes

No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. No property is taken for public use, so no just compensation analysis is required. The waiver of a two-thirds same-day consideration requirement is a legislative procedural rule, not an adjudication, and provides fair notice through the published resolution and recorded House vote.