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Advanced
Legislative Strategies
Advanced knowledge to help you develop strategies and
tactics to help shape legislation. |
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This Congressional Quarterly Executive
Conference is offered exclusively by TheCapitol.Net |
This advanced three-day course builds on the skills of those who have already learned the legislative process and basic congressional operations. In this course, participants
learn how to develop high-level strategies and tactics to help educate Congress and influence legislation.
In this course, you’ll:
- Identify new opportunities for legislative education and influence
- Learn how key legislative decisions are made during markups
- Discover when and how legislation is considered on either floor
- Anticipate whether a bill will go to conference
- Understand how earmarks and the appropriations process work
- Hear from a former
Member of Congress
The leadership competencies for this course include:
- Financial Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Influencing
- Political Savvy
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This course and any combination of it's
topics are available as
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your organization. We have tailored this course for
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others. For
more information about how this training can help your
members and staff, please contact
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Course materials include
the Training Edition of the
Congressional
Deskbook
"The
Congressional
Deskbook is perfect for anyone who wants to
understand how Congress works. It is concise,
clarion clear and comprehensive all at once. It is
spare and crisp -- but it never oversimplifies. It is
written in lay language, but it never 'dumbs it down.' The
Congressional Deskbook is a unique tool, one
that I use regularly."
-- David
Hawkings, Senior
Editor, Congressional Quarterly
PLUS a course manual of over 100 pages. |
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Agenda |
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Advanced Legislative Strategies
(CD = reference to relevant
section of Congressional Deskbook) |
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DAY ONE |
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9:00 |
How Knowing the Procedures Enables the Formulation of Strategies and Tactics and Ultimately Influences Congressional Action
- Learn why it is
important to understand the process
- Identify new
opportunities where you can influence congressional
action
- The role of the
lobbyist and government affairs officer in the
legislative process
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10:00 |
The Committee System and Committee Markups
- Understand why the drafting of legislation is strategic to its survival (CD 8.20, 8.30)
- Learn how key legislative decisions are made during markups
- Vehicles for markup
- Examine the amendment process (CD 8.50)
- Committee Reports
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11:15 |
Break |
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11:25 |
The House Rules Committee: Gatekeeper to the Floor
(CD 8.90)
- Briefly review the
history of the Rules Committee, its power, and its role in
recent Congresses
- Take an inside look
at the work, membership and internal decision-making
process of the Rules Committee
- Find out how the
resolutions or "rules" granted by the Rules Committee
structure floor debate and amendment opportunities (CD
8.91)
- Learn the nuances and
procedural implications of the different types of "rules"
by walking through the common types: open, modified,
closed
- Examine the procedures that govern floor consideration of the "rule"
- View videotapes of floor action
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12:25 |
Networking Lunch |
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1:45 |
Major Legislation on the House Floor and the Amending Process
- Master the stages of
action when the House resolves itself into the
Committee of the Whole (CD 8.113)
- Understand the
specific rules that govern debate, the amendment
process, and voting (CD 8.111)
- Examine the
different types, classes and degrees of amendments (CD
8.121)
- Learn the strategic
importance of knowing when to offer an amendment
- Examine the steps
following the Committee of the Whole consideration
including the motion to recommit and final passage (CD
8.140)
- Walk through a
real-life example of the House amending process
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2:45 |
Break |
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2:55 |
Mastering
Legislative Procedures: A Member's Perspective
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3:55 |
Complete
Evaluations for Day One |
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4:00 |
Day One Concludes |
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DAY TWO |
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9:00 |
The Dynamics of the
U.S. Senate
- Learn how the
Senate's rules are designed to slow down or even
defer, action on legislation by granting enormous
parliamentary powers to individual senators (CD 12.50,
8.03)
- Analyze how
legislating in the Senate differs from legislating in
the House (CD 8.151)
- Discuss the current
Congress in terms of political dynamics, leadership,
and the role of partisanship
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:10 |
Scheduling and Calling Up Bills on the Senate Floor
- Examine what takes
place during the various stages of a typical day on
the Senate floor
- Take a
behind-the-scenes look at the strategies and factors
involved in scheduling legislation for Senate floor
action including the interaction between the majority
and minority leaders, the competing interests of
senators, and procedural factors
- Compare and contrast
the scheduling of minor versus major legislation
- Analyze the role of
unanimous consent and other measures for bringing
bills to the floor (CD 8.201, 8.202)
- Learn about the
practice of placing a "hold" on legislation (CD 8.190)
Senate Floor Procedures
- Study the sequence
of floor procedures that occurs after a bill has been
scheduled and called up for consideration on the floor
(CD 8.210)
- Discuss the
importance of the floor manager's role
- Learn the rules
pertaining to filibusters, cloture, and post-cloture
filibusters (CD 8.230)
- Examine voting
procedures, and the strategies behind the use of
motions to table, reconsider, and recommit (CD 8.240)
- View videotape of
Senate floor action
Amending Legislation
on the Senate Floor
- Examine the
amendment process in the Senate (CD 8.220)
- Learn to distinguish
different types, classes and degrees of amendments
- Discuss the
modification, withdrawal and disposition of amendments
- Understand how
members' strategies are influenced by the order in
which amendments are voted on
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12:30 |
Networking Lunch |
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1:45 |
The Role of the Conference Committee in the Legislative Process
- Examine how conference committees have changed as
Congress has changed, i.e. growth of subcommittee
power, the rise of omnibus bills, use of multiple
referrals
- Learn how differences between the House and Senate
are solved via amendments between the houses, and the
advantages of using this process (CD 8.260, 8.270)
- Discuss pre-conference maneuvering in the House
and Senate and the key factors that determine whether
a bill does or does not go to conference
- Distinguish between House and Senate procedures
for going to conference, and the conferee selection
process (CD 8.270)
- Examine the political and strategic role of
instructing conferees before the conference committee
meets
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2:45 |
Break |
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3:00 |
The Conference Committee in Action
- Discuss the selection and the role of the
conference committee chairman, how the meeting
location influences the dynamics of the conference
committee, the different styles of conference
committees, and how subconferences are used to
streamline the work of large conference committees (CD
8.280)
- Examine the scope of what the conferees may
debate, negotiating strategies used by conferees
during the bargaining process, and how institutional
differences--particularly the issue of
germaneness--impact the bargaining process (CD 8.282)
- Review the role of the committee staff, other
members of Congress, the executive branch, and
lobbyists in this final stage of the legislative
process
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3:55 |
Complete
Evaluations for Day Two |
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4:00 |
Day Two Concludes |
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DAY THREE |
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9:00 |
Congressional Floor Strategies and Tactics
- Review actual
applications of parliamentary procedural tactics
employed by House and Senate Members/ staff to achieve
their objectives
- Presentation of
actual case studies of strategies and tactics used on
the House and Senate floor to influence the results of
legislation
- Discussion of
options used to influence legislation pending
resolution by the full House of Representatives and
the Senate
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:10 |
Congressional Floor Strategies and Tactics
(continued) |
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11:10 |
Break |
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11:20 |
Strategies and Tactics You Can Use to Create Results for Your Organization
- Formulating and implementing political lobbying strategies
- Sponsors, champions, and handlers
- What federal agencies need to know
- When to engage in the legislative process
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12:20 |
Networking Lunch |
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1:30 |
Influencing the Appropriations Process;
Earmarks
- Overview of the appropriations process
- What are earmarks
- Making your case at every stage of the process
- Education and advocacy
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2:30 |
Break |
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2:40 |
Influencing the Appropriations Process;
Earmarks
(continued) |
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4:00 |
Complete
Evaluations for Day Three |
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4:10 |
Course Concludes |
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Suggested
Prerequisites |
Working
knowledge of (or a minimum of one-year's experience
working with) the legislative process or completion
of our course Congressional Dynamics and the
Legislative Process recommended.
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Time
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9:00 am to 4:00 pm all three
days
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August 6-8, 2008
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T - Th,
December 9-11, 2008
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August 5-7, 2009
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December 9-11, 2009
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Location |
August 6-8, 2008:
Hall of the States, 444 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC (1 1/2 blocks from the
Union Station Metro
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1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 810, Washington, DC 20036 (two blocks southeast of the
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New Jersey Ave. and C Streets, SE, Washington, DC
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Course
Materials |
= Course materials include the Training Edition of the
Congressional
Deskbook and a course manual of over 100 pages.
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A
Certificate of
Training is available for this
course.
To get a
Certificate of
Training,
your registration fee must be paid in full, and you
must attend the entire course.
 This course is
approved for 1.6 CEU credits from George Mason
University.
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elective course for the
Certificate
in Congressional Operations. |
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