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Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments (open access)

Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments

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Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unanimous Consent Agreements in the Senate (open access)

Unanimous Consent Agreements in the Senate

This report discusses the idea of "unanimous consent" in the Senate. Without its tradition of unanimous consent, the Senate would find it harder to process its complex workload.
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voting in the Senate: Forms and Requirements (open access)

Voting in the Senate: Forms and Requirements

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Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Voting Procedures: Forms and Requirements (open access)

House Voting Procedures: Forms and Requirements

This report discusses the procedural considerations suffuse voting and the methods of voting in both the House and in the Committee of the Whole.
Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Types and Roles (open access)

Committee Types and Roles

There are three main types of committees—standing, select, and joint. Most committees form subcommittees to share specific tasks within the jurisdiction of the full committee.
Date: February 14, 2002
Creator: Carr, Thomas P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of Bills (open access)

Sponsorship and Cosponsorship of Bills

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Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Sachs, Richard C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conference Reports and Joint Explanatory Statements (open access)

Conference Reports and Joint Explanatory Statements

The conference report presents the formal legislative language on which the conference committee has agreed. The joint explanatory statement explains the various elements of the conferees’ agreement in relation to the positions that the House and Senate had committed to the conference committee.
Date: February 28, 2003
Creator: Bach, Stanley & Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Invoking Cloture in the Senate (open access)

Invoking Cloture in the Senate

This report discuses cloture, which is is the only procedure by which the Senate can vote to set an end to a debate without also rejecting the bill, amendment, conference report, motion, or other matter it has been debating. A Senator can make a nondebatable motion to table an amendment, and if a majority of the Senate votes for that motion, the effect is to reject the amendment. Thus, the motion to table cannot be used to conclude a debate when Senators still wish to speak and to enable the Senate to vote for the proposal it is considering. Only the cloture provisions of Rule XXII achieve this purpose.
Date: February 9, 2005
Creator: Davis, Christopher M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources (open access)

Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources

This report introduces selected basic sources that are useful in obtaining background information or specific facts on the status of federal legislative or regulatory initiatives. It includes telephone, online, and media sources are included, as well as pertinent directories, such as those of organizations that track areas of interest. Annotations describing each source's contents and organization are included so that researchers can select those that most closely fit their needs. Internet addresses usually provide information about the items, rather than access to them.
Date: February 15, 2000
Creator: Davis, Carol D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources (open access)

Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources

This report introduces selected basic sources that are useful in obtaining background information or specific facts on the status of federal legislative or regulatory initiatives. It includes telephone, online, and media sources are included, as well as pertinent directories, such as those of organizations that track areas of interest. Annotations describing each source's contents and organization are included so that researchers can select those that most closely fit their needs. Internet addresses usually provide information about the items, rather than access to them.
Date: February 13, 2003
Creator: Davis, Carol D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Congressional Budget Process Timetable (open access)

The Congressional Budget Process Timetable

The Congressional Budget Act (CBA) of 1974 (P.L. 93-344), as amended, establishes the congressional budget process, which coordinates the legislative activities on the budget resolution, appropriations bills, reconciliation legislation, revenue measures, and other budgetary legislation. Section 300 of this act provides a timetable (see Table 1) so that Congress may complete its work on the budget by the start of the fiscal year on October 1.
Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Amendment Process: General Conditions and Principles (open access)

Senate Amendment Process: General Conditions and Principles

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Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Executive Business and the Executive Calendar (open access)

Senate Executive Business and the Executive Calendar

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Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Rules for Committee Markups (open access)

Senate Rules for Committee Markups

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Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Floor Consideration of Conference Reports in the House (open access)

Floor Consideration of Conference Reports in the House

This report explains the steps in the legislative process of the conference reports.
Date: February 19, 1999
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Super-Majority Votes in the Senate (open access)

Super-Majority Votes in the Senate

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Date: February 20, 2001
Creator: Oleszek, Walter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amendments Between the Houses (open access)

Amendments Between the Houses

This report briefly summarizes the process of amendments between the House of Representatives and the Senate, which occurs if the House and Senate approve differing versions of a measure. An exchange of amendments between the houses resolves these differences.
Date: February 19, 1999
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress (open access)

Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress

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Date: February 25, 1999
Creator: Rundquist, Paul S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Promotion Authority (Fast-Track Authority for Trade Agreements): Background and Developments in the 107th Congress (open access)

Trade Promotion Authority (Fast-Track Authority for Trade Agreements): Background and Developments in the 107th Congress

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Date: February 15, 2002
Creator: Sek, Lenore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Actions in 2002 (open access)

Congressional Budget Actions in 2002

During the second session of the 107th Congress, the House and Senate will consider many different budgetary measures. Most of these measures will pertain to FY2003 (which will begin on October 1, 2002) and beyond, but some may make adjustments to the budget for FY2002. As the congressional session progresses, this issue brief will describe House and Senate action on major budgetary legislation within the framework of the congressional budget process and other procedural requirements.
Date: February 25, 2002
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Budget Process Reforms in the Senate: A Brief Analysis of Senate Resolutions 4, 5, 6, and 8 (open access)

Proposed Budget Process Reforms in the Senate: A Brief Analysis of Senate Resolutions 4, 5, 6, and 8

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Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special Order Speeches: Current House Practices (open access)

Special Order Speeches: Current House Practices

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Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and Information Guide (open access)

Congressional Budget Resolutions: Selected Statistics and Information Guide

This report provides current and historical information on the budget resolution. It provides a list of the budget resolutions adopted and rejected by Congress since implementation of the CBA, including the U.S. Statutes-at-Large citations and committee report numbers, and describes their formulation and content. The report provides a table of selected optional components, a list of reconciliation measures, and information on the number of years covered by budget resolutions. It also provides information on the consideration and adoption of budget resolutions, including an identification of the House special rules that provided for consideration of budget resolutions; the amendments in the nature of a substitute to the budget resolution considered in the House; the number and disposition of House and Senate amendments to budget resolutions; and dates of House and Senate action on budget resolutions.
Date: February 9, 2004
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appropriations for FY2001: Legislative Branch (open access)

Appropriations for FY2001: Legislative Branch

Appropriations are one part of a complex federal budget process that includes budget resolutions, appropriations (regular, supplemental, and continuing) bills, rescissions, and budget reconciliation bills. This report is a guide to one of the 13 regular appropriations bills that Congress passes each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Legislative Branch Appropriations.
Date: February 19, 2001
Creator: Dwyer, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library