The adoption of this special rule is in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 7060) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.
H. RES. 1502 is a closed rule, because this resolution is on tax act and tax legislation is too complex and technical to be reached a consensus in the floor during the limited time. As Wilbur D. Mills argued, if unlimited floor amendments were allowed, the House representatives would be at lost to make a reasonable decision under the pressure of lots of interests groups, since tax issue is so contraversial that it can affect the life of every one and organization.
The resolution “provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committees on Ways and Means”, which sets the amount of general debate time, one hour and......

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Title: A Closed Rule
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