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This nine-session course gives you a comprehensive look at the organization and practices of the U.S. Congress. Learn about the procedures of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from the introduction and referral of legislation to reconciling differences between House-passed and Senate-passed legislation.
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ISBN: 1587331241
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Course 1:
Introduction and Referral in the House and Senate
- Four types of legislation
- Who can introduce measures and when can they be introduced
- Referral: Rule X in the House and Rule XXV in the Senate
- Role of the Speaker of the House and the presiding officer of the Senate in referral
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Recorded October
1, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331233
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Course 2:
Committee Action
- Committee hearings—four types: legislative, investigative, oversight, and confirmation
- Notice, scheduling, and quorums
- Committee markup, markup vehicle, committee print, chairman’s mark
- Amendment procedure
- Reporting
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Recorded October
8, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331225
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Course 3:
House Floor Procedures
- House calendars: Legislative, Union, Discharge, and Private
- How measures get to the floor
- Methods of consideration
- Unanimous consent
- Suspension of the rules
- Private calendar
- Special rule
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Recorded October
15, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331217
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Course 4:
House Rules Committee
- History of the Rules Committee, its power, and its role in recent Congresses
- How resolutions or "rules" granted by the Rules Committee structure floor debate and amendment opportunities
- Open, modified, and closed rules
- Procedures that govern floor consideration of the "rule"
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Recorded October 22, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331209
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Course 5:
The Committee of the Whole
- What is it
- General debate
- Amendment process
- Committee amendments
- The "5 minute rule"
- Amendment Tree
- Ending the amendment process
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October 29, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331195
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Course 6:
Senate Scheduling
- Rules and custom; priority of recognition
- Legislative and calendar days
- Morning Hour and Morning Business
- Two calendars: Legislative and Executive
- Bringing motions to the floor
- Unanimous consent
- Time agreements
- Motion to proceed
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Recorded November
5, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331187
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Course 7:
Senate Floor Procedures
- Sequence of floor procedures that occurs after a bill has been scheduled and called up for consideration on the floor
- Importance of the floor manager’s role
- Rules pertaining to filibusters, cloture, and post-cloture filibusters
- Voting procedures, motions to table, reconsider, and recommit
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Recorded November
12, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331179
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Course 8:
Amending Legislation on the Senate Floor
- The amendment process
- Different types, classes, and degrees of amendments
- Modification, withdrawal, and disposition of amendments
- Sequence of voting
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Recorded November
19, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331160
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Course 9:
Reconciling Differences Between House-Passed and Senate-Passed Legislation
- Amendments between the houses
- Conference Committees
- Selection of conferees
- Motion to instruct conferees
- Authority of conferees
- Conference report and joint explanatory statement
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Recorded November 26, 2008 ISBN 10:
1587331152
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