Opening the People’s House Resolution

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 865 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 865

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide a process 
 for Members to call for an end to certain district work periods, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 2025

   Mr. Larson of Connecticut (for himself, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Davis of 
Illinois, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Ruiz, 
Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, 
Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Case, Ms. Titus, and Mr. Kennedy of New York) submitted 
 the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide a process 
 for Members to call for an end to certain district work periods, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Opening the People's House 
Resolution''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO DISTRICT WORK PERIODS.

    Clause 13 of rule I of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(d)(1) On any day during a district work period described in 
paragraph (a), any Member may submit to the Clerk a letter calling for 
an end to such district work period. The Clerk shall make any such 
letter submitted a matter of public record, causing the names of the 
Members who have submitted such a letter during a district work period 
to be published in a portion of the Congressional Record designated for 
that purpose and making cumulative lists of such names available each 
day for public inspection in an appropriate office of the House. The 
Clerk shall devise a means for making such lists available to offices 
of the House and to the public in electronic form.
            ``(2) If, with respect to a district work period described 
        in paragraph (a), a majority of the membership of the House, 
        duly chosen and sworn, submit a letter described in 
        subparagraph (1)--
            ``(A) it shall be entered on the Journal and published in 
        the Record;
            ``(B) such district work period shall terminate within 2 
        days; and
            ``(C) the Speaker may not designate another district work 
        period under paragraph (a) during the period that begins on the 
        date the House next reconvenes and ends on the date that is 3 
        weeks after such reconvening.''.
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