senate makes the rules for u.s. house.
senate makes the rules for u.s. house.
who makes the rules for u.s. house?
senate
standing committees are established at the time that the rules of the house are adopted or by amending the house rules. the jurisdiction of each standing committee is specified in the house rules. under the house rules the chairman and members of standing committees are selected through a two-step procedure where the democratic caucus and the republican conference recommends members to serve on committees, the majority party recommends a chairman, and the minority party recommends a ranking member and finally the full house can approve the recommendation of the party caucuses. it is important to note that the rules of the democratic caucus and the republican conference determines the nomination procedure of its own members. rules of party nominations may therefore differ but approval by the house of these nominations is conducted according to house rules. seniority on a standing committee is based on the order of the members on the election resolution as approved by the house. the number of members who serve on a committee along with the party ratio of a committee is determined by the majority and minority leaders of the house with the exception of the committee on ethics which is limited by the rules to 5 majority members and 5 minority members.
procedures of the united states house of representatives
in the area of legal ethics, nysba adopted the canons of ethics in 1920. this evolved into the code of professional responsibility and in 2001 adopted changes addressing multidisciplinary practice. the u.s. state of new york was the last state using the code for many years, long after all other states–except california and maine–had adopted the model rules. on december 17, 2008, the administrative committee of the new york courts announced that it had adopted a heavily modified version of the model rules, effective april 1, 2009. new york's version of the model rules was created by adjusting the standard model rules to reflect indigenous new york rules that had been incorporated over the years into its version of the model code. even though new york did not adopt the model rules verbatim, the advantage of adopting its overall structure is that it simplifies the professional responsibility training of new york lawyers, and makes it easier for out-of-state lawyers to conform their conduct to new york rules by simply comparing their home state's version of the model rules to new york's version.
new york state bar association