§3133 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Congress uses the rulemaking power of each chamber (the House of Representatives and the Senate) to make this subchapter and its changes part of that chamber’s official rules, and those rules override other rules only when they conflict. Each chamber can change them at any time in the same way it changes any other rule.

Title 15, §3133

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(a)11 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted. 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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

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

Short Title

note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.

§3133 Exercise of Rulemaking Powers