Issue Position: Allow Bills Passed in Committees to Proceed Directly to the Floor

Issue Position

As many Americans know, there are several parliamentary procedures and rules which govern the internal business of the House of Representatives. Specifically, rules allow the discretion of House Leadership regarding which bills can make it to the floor for votes. That means, even though an entire committee may vote for a bill and approve of it being sent to the general voting body, members in leadership positions are not required to allow that legislation to the floor for debate and consideration by other House members.

to remedy this I propose that if a bill is passed within a full committee then it should be sent to the entire House of Representatives for a vote. This, in conjunction with my single-subject proposal, would speed up business and increase transparency and accountability while fine-tuning legislation to ensure imperfections or improprieties are identified and stricken at the committee level. Think of it as a distillation process -- the more committees and votes a bill goes through, the more likely its final product is to be of high quality.

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