Committee Assignments

Committee on Rules
  The Rules Committee has a primary responsibility to report special rules that set the terms for time of debate and amendments on measures to be debated by the full House of Representatives. The Rules Committee also exercises original jurisdiction over the standing rules of the House, and any changes in House rules, and the congressional budget process. Examples include Unfunded Mandates reform, Ethics Reform, and the Line Item Veto. Since September 11, 2001, the Committee has taken steps to facilitate and ensure congressional continuity of operations in the case of a disaster.

Congressman Diaz-Balart serves as a senior Member of the Rules Committee and as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process.
 
The House Policy Committee
  The principal forum for the consideration of forward-looking legislative initiatives, the enunciation of official party policies, and the resolution of inter-jurisdictional policy disputes.

Congressman Diaz-Balart serves as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Liberty. This Subcommittee is working to advance the founding Republican principles of individual freedom, human equality, and civil rights at home and abroad. It is continuing the work of the Americas Subcommittee of the 107th Congress to combat dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere, to promote free trade among free peoples, to protect and consolidate threatened democracies, and to spread political and economic freedom around the world where democracy does not exist.
 
Committee on International Relations
  Congressman Diaz-Balart retains his seniority on the Committee on International Relations. The Committee has jurisdiction over foreign relations including; international economic policy, the United Nations, international commodity agreements and foreign security including nuclear nonproliferation.