Making laws
simple resolution
A measure (H.Res. or S.Res.) that one chamber passes alone, governing its own rules, honors, or internal procedure. It is not law and never leaves that chamber.
In full
A simple resolution is a chamber talking to itself: adopting its rules, creating a select committee, setting the terms of floor debate on a bill, censuring a member, or honoring someone. The House's special rules, the instruments that decide how long a bill is debated and which amendments are allowed, are simple resolutions, which is why so much of what looks like floor drama is really a fight over an H.Res.
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