Course 1:
Introduction and Referral in the House and Senate |
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- Four types of legislation
- Who can introduce measures and when they can 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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Course 1 Recorded
2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-123-3
Total run time: 93 minutes 1233
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Course 2:
Committee Action |
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- 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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Course 2 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-122-5 Total run time: 98 minutes 1225
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Course 3:
House Floor Procedures |
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- 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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Course 3 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-121-7 Total run time: 96 minutes 1217
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Course 4:
House Rules Committee |
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- 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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Course 4 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-120-9 Total run time: 90 minutes 1209
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Course 5:
The Committee of the Whole |
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- What is it
- General debate
- Amendment process
- Committee amendments
- The "5 minute rule"
- Amendment Tree
- Ending the amendment process
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Course 5 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-119-5 Total run time: 93 minutes 1195
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Course 6:
Senate Scheduling |
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- 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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Course 6 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-118-7 Total run time: 96 minutes 1187
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Course 7:
Senate Floor Procedures |
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- 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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Course 7 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-117-9 Total run time: 93 minutes 1179
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Course 8:
Amending Legislation on the Senate Floor |
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- The amendment process
- Different types, classes, and degrees of amendments
- Modification, withdrawal, and disposition of amendments
- Sequence of voting
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Course 8 Recorded 2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-116-0 Total run time: 98 minutes 1160
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Course 9:
Reconciling Differences Between House-Passed and Senate-Passed Legislation |
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- 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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Course 9 Recorded
2008
ISBN 10: 1-58733-115-2
Total run time: 104 minutes 1152
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