Actually Getting A Bill Passed
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CongressCongress
How It Works
Legislative Process
Legislative Process
Legislative Process
Parties and Caucuses
Legislative Process
Committees and Staff
Legislative Process❖ Importance of Committees
❖ Seniority System within Committees
❖ Role of Staff
❖ Conference Committee
❖ Veto
❖ Veto Overrides
❖ Pocket Vetoes
Legislative ProcessMultiple Referrals
Committees
Staff Agencies
Legislative ProcessCommittees
Legislative Process
Getting it out of committee
Legislative ProcessBypass Committee (discharge petitions)
Once out of committee...
Type of Resolutions
Floor Debate
Floor Debate
Floor Debate
Filibuster• Remember the senate is run by politics even if the terminology is of “laws, rules, procedures.”
Define cloture• Why has the threat of filibuster increased in the past 25 years?
1) 1960s - value of time - Senators decided threat was good enough
2) more polarization
Filibuster
•How does a quorum call affect the chance of a filibuster?
• What does the Sgt. At Arms do?
1988 Campaign finance reform - D Byrd - quorum - R Packwood bars the door.
Filibuster
•Do you think a filibuster encourages bipartisanship or polarization?
Filibuster
•They can change the rules. Why don’t they change the procedure rules of filibuster?
1) 1st rule change is no filibuster on a rule change2) constitutional mandate overrides3) why not Senator Harkin’s gradual thresh hold? 60-57-54-51
Legislative ProcessMore Filibusters
Legislative ProcessPolarization
Legislative ProcessFewer Moderates in the House
Methods of Voting
Voting
Clean Air Act as an example of the
legislative process
Legislative ProcessCase Study- Clean Air
Act