That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that to encourage and reward consensus driven governing, foster the passage of member initiatives solving constituent priorities, increase accountability and transparency, and elect a Speaker that is representative of the entire body, the House should adopt the following proposals: (1) To prevent the Speaker from being held hostage by a small fraction of his/her party, replace the rule allowing a Motion to Vacate the Chair with a public petition process that must be signed by 1/3 of the House Members to earn privileged consideration on the floor and a majority (218 votes) of the whole House to successfully remove the Speaker from the position. (2) Ensure that the party ratios on all committees (excluding Ethics which shall remain equally divided, but including Rules, Intelligence, and all other Joint and Select Committees) reflect the party ratio of the entire House. (3) Require a 3/5 supermajority, of those present and voting, for passage and consideration of legislation under closed rules. The remaining legislation should be open or structured. (4) Require any structured rule to have at least one germane amendment from each party, if offered, which means that at least one amendment offered by a representative from each party shall not contain in advance any waiver of germane points of order against its consideration. (5) To encourage Committee and floor consideration of member initiatives, establish a fast-track procedure to enable bipartisan legislation and amendments to receive priority consideration as follows: (A) Any legislative bill (not resolution) that gains at least 2/3 cosponsors (290 Members) or a majority of Members of each party, must be marked up by its relevant committees and reported to the Rules Committee within 30 legislative days of receiving its 290th cosponsor. The Rules Committee shall report a rule unless the majority +1 of the entire Committee rejects the rule. This will ensure that legislation with broad support gets appropriate