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Advanced Legislative Procedure
Rules, procedures, and strategies to shape and impact legislation.

This course includes an in-depth examination of House and Senate operations. You learn points of influence in the legislative process where you can impact and shape legislation, enhancing your organization's ability to work with Congress.

Our advanced three-day course builds on the skills of those who have an understanding of the legislative process:

  • 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
  • Learn how to engage key stakeholders
  • Anticipate whether a bill will go to conference
  • Learn what is really going in behind closed doors on the Hill
  • Examine the different types, forms and degrees of amendments
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The leadership competencies for this course include:

  • Financial Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Influencing
  • Political Savvy

This is a Congressional Fellows and Presidential Management Fellows Training course This is a Congressional Fellows and Presidential Management Fellows Training course.


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  • Capitol Learning Congressional Operations Audio Courses
  • Congressional Committees and Party Leadership: Who Controls the Congressional Agenda
  • House Floor Procedures
  • Understanding the Path of Legislation
  • Congress, the Legislative Process, and the Fundamentals of Lawmaking, A Nine Course Series

 

  Course Materials
Congressional Procedure

Course materials include the Training Edition of the Congressional Procedure


"An ideal guide, Richard Arenberg leads the way through the labyrinth of congressional procedure. Having staffed in both the House and Senate, crafted legislative tactics, and taught how Congress works, he can explain complex issues lucidly."
-- Donald A. Ritchie, Historian Emeritus, U.S. Senate


  Course Details
Sample Agenda
Advanced Legislative Procedure

9:00 - 4:00 pm all three days
(Networking lunch 12:30 pm all 3 days)

Day One

Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process: How Knowing the Procedures Enables the Formulation of Strategies and Tactics and Ultimately Influences Congressional Action

  • Three Key Elements of Congressional Behavior- Politics, Policy, and Procedure

  • Learn why it is important to understand the process

  • Identify new opportunities where you can influence congressional action

The Committee System and Committee Markups

  • Understand why the drafting of legislation is strategic to its survival

  • Learn how key legislative decisions are made during markups

  • Vehicles for markup

  • Committee and chamber markup rules

  • Committee Reports

The House Rules Committee: Gatekeeper to the Floor

  • Briefly review the history of the Rules Committee, its power, and its role in recent Congresses

  • Find out how the resolutions or "rules" granted by the Rules Committee structure floor debate and amendment opportunities

  • 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"

  • Understand the stages when the House resolves into and rises from the Committee of the Whole

Major Legislation on the House Floor and the Amending Process

  • Understand the specific rules that govern the amendment process and voting

  • Examine the different types, forms and degrees of amendments

  • Learn the strategic importance of knowing when to offer an amendment

  • Complexities of the "germaneness rule"

  • Walk through a real-life example of the House amending process

Mastering Legislative Procedures: A Member's Perspective

Day Two

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

  • Analyze how legislating in the Senate differs from legislating in the House

  • Discuss the current Congress in terms of political dynamics, leadership, and the role of partisanship

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

  • Learn about the practice of placing a "hold" on legislation

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

  • Discuss the importance of the floor manager's role

  • Learn the rules pertaining to filibusters, cloture, and post-cloture filibusters

  • Examine voting procedures, and the strategies behind the use of motions to table, reconsider, and recommit

  • View videotape of Senate floor action

Amending Legislation on the Senate Floor

  • Examine the amendment process in the Senate

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Examine the political and strategic role of instructing conferees before the conference committee meets

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

  • 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

  • Review the role of the committee staff, other members of Congress, the executive branch, and lobbyists in this final stage of the legislative process

Day Three

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

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

Case Study: Putting All the Pieces Together
  • Using a major piece of legislation as a case study, the faculty will walk participants through the progress of a bill from introduction to presidential signature

This course and any of its topics are also available as custom, on-site training anywhere in the United States.


Do you need a training course we don't offer or coverage of an additional topic in this course?

If you have suggestions for courses or topics you would like to see us offer, please contact us or complete our online suggestion form.


PrerequisitesWorking 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.

If you have questions or need help deciding which courses you should take based on your work experience or training, please contact us via email or phone: 202-678-1600.

Time and Dates

9:00 am to 4:00 pm all three days 

  • This Sponsored Course requires three (3) days 

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 For a map with a brief list of hotels near the Capitol, click here. When we arrange space, we use these Washington, DC, locations.

Course MaterialsCourse materials include the Training Edition of the Congressional Deskbook.
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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 is a Congressional Fellows and Presidential Management Fellows Training course This is a Congressional Fellows and Presidential Management Fellows Training course.

Approved for 1.6 CEUs from George Mason University.

Related Training
  • Congressional Operations Briefing - Capitol Hill Workshop

  • Congressional Operations Audio Courses

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$33,750 - for up to 20 attendees *
The program fee includes program development, faculty, and course materials and presentation at your DC-area location for up to 20 attendees (sponsor provides classroom space, AV, and any breaks and lunch). For an additional fee, we can also provide classroom space in the DC area for up to 20 attendees, AV, breaks and lunch. We will contact you after we receive your registration to finalize details.  Registration and payment at least 3 weeks before the course is required so the program can be customized for your specific needs. For more information see FAQs About Our Sponsored Courses.

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"Quality of presenters is unrivaled.  [Congressional] Deskbook is priceless.  Another outstanding course by TheCapitol.Net."
-- Attorney/Analyst, FAA

 

"Indispensable!"
-- Partner, Patton Boggs 

 

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-- Congressional Affairs Specialist, Dept. of Navy

 

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The faculty members for this course each have more than 10 years' experience in the legislative process.

 

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Stanley Bach

Hon. Jim Chapman

Chris Davis

Robert Dove

Martin Gold

Walter Oleszek

Betsy Palmer

Paul Rundquist

Elizabeth Rybicki

David Schaffer

Jack Schenendorf

Hon. Robert Walker

 


 

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