Removing a certain Member from certain standing committees of the House.
H. Res. 706 is a House resolution introduced in the 119th Congress that would remove a specific named Member from two standing committees: the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Carter of Georgia and supported by several co-sponsors, is referred to the House Ethics Committee. If enacted, it would direct the House to strip that Member of those two committee assignments. This is a House-internal disciplinary or governance action, not a law or federal policy change. The measure signals the House’s authority to determine its own committee rosters and to discipline Members through assignment removals. Because the text provides the removals but not a full procedural pathway, actual implementation would depend on further steps by the Ethics Committee and subsequent House action. In short, it seeks to reduce the targeted Member’s formal influence on fiscal and education/workforce policy via committee assignments.
Key Points
- 1Type and purpose: H. Res. 706 is a House resolution, not a statute; its purpose is to remove a named Member from specified standing committees.
- 2Targeted Member and committees: The resolution names Ms. Omar and would remove her from the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
- 3Procedural path: The resolution was referred to the House Committee on Ethics for investigation or consideration; any removal would ultimately require action by the House.
- 4Nature of action: This is a disciplinary-type measure affecting committee assignments, a formal internal governance consequence rather than a change in law.
- 5Grounds and specificity: The text does not state the underlying grounds for removal; it simply directs removal from the two committees specified.