the rules committee plays a critical role in the legislative process. Do you think this committee has too much power? Why or why not ?

No, the committee is balanced due to the long process for a bill to go through there is to many variables for it to be easily manipulated.

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.