House of Representatives

Under U.S. federal law and practice, the President can sign a bill into law, veto a bill, or allow a bill to become law without a signature if the President does not sign or veto it within 10 days (excluding Sundays); Congress can override a presidential veto by a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

For a bill to become law in the United States, both the House of Representatives and the Senate must pass the same legislation and the president must sign it (or a presidential veto must be overridden).

The House Rules Committee typically advances most legislation to full House votes and sets terms of consideration, including whether amendments may be offered and timing for debate.

Members of one chamber of a bicameral legislature can exert political pressure on members of the other chamber to influence the timing and terms of budget or government funding negotiations.

The 'Gang of Eight' in the U.S. Congress consists of the majority and minority leaders of both the House and the Senate and the chairs and vice-chairs of the congressional intelligence committees.

Japan's lower house (the House of Representatives) elects the country's prime minister.

In 2025, Representative Mark Takano proposed two bills: one to ban donor names from being displayed on White House structures or grounds unless approved by the House speaker, the minority leader, and the White House, and another to prohibit federally funded construction at the White House during a government shutdown.

A common legislative tactic in the U.S. Congress is for the House of Representatives to pass a funding bill and adjourn to put pressure on the Senate to accept the bill, a practice sometimes described as 'jamming the other chamber'.

The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives controls the House's schedule and can extend or call recesses.

As of 2025, women comprised about 15% of the members of Japan's House of Representatives (the lower house of the National Diet).

Japan's House of Representatives (the lower house of the National Diet) is the more powerful chamber of Japan's bicameral legislature.

A full federal government shutdown occurs when the federal fiscal year ends on September 30 and none of Congress's 12 single-subject appropriations bills have been enacted by both the House and Senate.

A 1984 Office of Legal Counsel memorandum discussed possible meanings of 'hostilities', cited a House report recommending that 'hostilities' encompass a danger of armed conflict, and recorded that the Ford administration had argued that 'hostilities' referred to situations in which U.S. armed forces were 'actively engaged in exchanges of fire'.

A conference committee is a formal joint committee of members from the House and the Senate established to reconcile differences between the two chambers' versions of a bill and produce a compromise measure.

Japan's lower house (the House of Representatives) is the more powerful chamber of the country's bicameral parliament and selects the prime minister.

A funding measure must be passed in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it can become law and fund federal government operations.

A House discharge petition can be used to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to consider releasing committee-held files or other materials.

The House Rules Committee has the authority to advance legislation to the full U.S. House floor and to set the terms and timing for floor consideration.

In the U.S. federal legislative process, revenue measures typically originate in the House of Representatives.

When legislation is referred to multiple committees of jurisdiction in the U.S. House of Representatives, the House's consideration of that legislation typically takes longer than if it were processed through a single committee or expedited floor procedures.