Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110
§3133 Exercise of Rulemaking Powers
Title 15 › CHAPTER 58 — FULL EMPLOYMENT AND BALANCED GROWTH › SUBCHAPTER II — POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW › § 3133
Summary
Congress uses the House and Senate rule-making power to make these provisions part of each chamber’s own rules. They take priority over other rules only if they conflict, and each House can change them at any time the same way it would change any other rule.
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Title 15, §3133
Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)The Provisions of this subchapter and the amendments made by such provisions are enacted by the Congress—
(1)as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(2)with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House), at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.
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This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 95–523, Oct. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 1904, which enacted this subchapter and amended section 632 and 636 of Title 2, The Congress. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.
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15 U.S.C. § 3133
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110