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Restoration of fiscal measures and new inflation analysis
Republicans are bringing back the Holman rule, which allows members to propose amendments to appropriations bills that cut the salaries of specific federal workers or funding for specific programs down to $1, effectively defunding them. Some Republicans have suggested using the rule to defund certain investigations and officials in the FBI and Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security or officials who were involved in COVID-19 policies. 
The hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus had advocated to bring back the Holman rule since the summer. It was also in the House rules the last time there was a GOP majority in the 116th Congress.
In a new move, Republicans will direct the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the inflationary impact of legislation in addition to the budgetary impact — an issue that Republicans repeatedly hammered amid the inflation rate hitting a four-decade high in 2022.
The package also restores some longtime fiscal rules that Democrats removed, such as a three-fifths supermajority threshold to increase federal income taxes.
The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation will also be directed to use “dynamic scoring,” a method that considers a bill’s impact on macroeconomic changes in the economy when evaluating its budgetary effect. Republicans previously used dynamic scoring to bolster their argument that tax cuts would not be a detriment to the economy because they would boost economic activity and therefore increase tax revenue.
“PAYGO,” the “pay-as-you-go” rule that requires legislation that would increase mandatory spending to be offset with spending cues or revenue increases, will be replaced with “CUTGO,” a “cut-as-you-go” variation first instituted by Republicans in 2011 that requires increases to be offset with equal or greater mandatory spending decreases. Both parties frequently waived the rule to pass legislation in the past.
End to pandemic-era remote work rules
Gone are proxy voting and remote work rules instituted due to COVID-19 as well as fines for mask mandates. Members will no longer be able to participate in hearings remotely via videoconference, and only select nongovernment witnesses will be able to testify to committees remotely if they are unable to travel to Washington.
The House sergeant-at-arms sent a memo to House staff last week announcing a return to pre-pandemic norms of open public access to House office buildings and tours starting on Tuesday.

Procedural and ethics measures
In a blow to efforts from progressive staff to form labor unions in congressional offices, which were approved in a House resolution in 2022, the rules packages will “eliminate Democrats’ creation of House staff labor unions so that Congressional staff are accountable to the elected officials they serve,” a highlights summary of the rules said.
It also directs the House Ethics Committee to adopt a process to accept complaints directly from the public, rather than having to go through the Office of Congressional Ethics (which will remain in place). The Ethics panel is also directed to conduct a bipartisan “comprehensive review” of House ethics rules and regulations.
The rules also fulfill another request from House conservatives to require at least 72 hours from the release of bill text before a final vote.