Calendars and Schedules , congress. Legislative committee calendars may include information such as: members, subcommittees, subcommittee assignments, jurisdiction, rules, bills and resolutions referred to the committee, bills of interest to the committee, measures referred to the subcommittees, rules of procedure, calendar of nominations, list of nominees, meetings, executive sessions and other committee business, hearings, presidential messages, senate reports, conference reports, publications issued by the committee, index, etc.
Report a Problem. Ask Us! Follow Ballotpedia. Click here to follow election results! The th United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government , composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. According to the House of Representatives floor schedule released at the end of , the House was scheduled to be in session for more days than in the previous two years. The House was scheduled to meet for days, compared to the days it was scheduled to meet in and the days it was scheduled to meet in The Senate released its calendar at the end of The Senate was scheduled to be in session for more days than in versus but fewer days than in versus From to , the Senate spent an average of days in session each year, and the House spent an average of days in session.
The following table lists the number of days that the U. See also: Amendment tree. A bill providing funding for authorized federal programs. Appropriators are not required to fund programs at their authorized level. Rather, they view the amount authorized for the program as the maximum amount allowed to be appropriated.
Chairs of Appropriations Subcommittees sometimes are referred to as the "College of Cardinals" because they exert such influence over spending for federal programs.
A bill establishing, amending, or continuing a federal program. So called because it "authorizes" the expenditure of money, but does not actually provide it. For instance, a bill authorizing expenditures for the continuation of federal crop price support programs is an authorization bill. Legislative proposal before Congress. Also known as "measure", "proposal", or "legislation". An official of the House or Senate whose duties include receipt and processing of newly-introduced legislation.
Until , the congressional budget process consisted of creating programs and funding them. In the s, it became clear that there were conflicting priorities between the authorizing committees that created federal programs and the appropriating committees that funded them. The result was federal spending chaos and an ever-increasing federal deficit. This law established a procedure to help organize the many policy and spending decisions Congress makes every year into a coordinated whole.
Think of the budget process as a blueprint for the federal program and spending priorities as seen by the Congress. It establishes the overall parameters under which decisions about appropriations and authorizations can occur. The budget process is designed to help lawmakers focus on overall goals rather than the piecemeal decisions that characterized congressional spending decisions in the past.
It begins with the release of the President's proposed budget early in the year, along with detailed justification materials prepared by Federal agencies which are submitted to the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees with jurisdiction over the funding for each agency.
The President is required to submit his budget for the upcoming fiscal year to Congress on or before the first Monday in February. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of requires Congress to adopt an annual budget resolution covering the upcoming fiscal year plus the four subsequent years before it enacts any appropriations.
Congress is expected to adopt a budget resolution by April 15, but this deadline is frequently not met. The budget resolution establishes a target spending ceiling and revenue floor for the upcoming fiscal year. Further, the spending ceiling total is subdivided into separate functional category or national priority totals. The House and Senate Budget Committees have exclusive jurisdiction over budget resolutions and their enforcement. The budget resolution follows the normal legislative process path up to the point where a bill would be sent to the President.
Since the budget resolution is an internal congressional housekeeping measure, it does not go to the President for his signature and it is not considered binding on congressional decision-makers. Congress may adopt a later budget resolution that revises the previously adopted concurrent resolution. The budget resolution is adopted in the form of a concurrent resolution accompanied by a written report.
After Congress completes action on the concurrent resolution for a given fiscal year, it is generally not in order to consider legislation that does not conform to the constraints on spending and revenue set out in the resolution.
The concurrent resolution includes language that instructs the House and Senate committees to recommend changes to achieve the constraints established in the concurrent resolution, and specifies the amount of spending reductions or revenue changes the committee must attain, but does not identify specific changes to be made. The process of passing legislation that reflects the assumptions made in the concurrent resolution is called reconciliation. The reconciliation process is intended to bring existing law into conformity with the most recently adopted concurrent resolution.
After both the House and Senate pass their versions of an appropriations bill, the bill is referred to a conference committee. Conference reports on appropriations may be accepted or rejected by either the House or the Senate, but they cannot be amended in either Chamber. If a conference report is rejected, the conferees negotiate further. Once the reconciliation bill passes both Chambers, it is sent to the President and is subject to the normal procedures governing Presidential action related to the enactment of a law.
Appearing on the bill print in parentheses just after the sponsor's name, this phrase indicates that the sponsor is introducing the measure as a favor to someone not in Congress.
Often the "someone" is the President, but it also could be an individual constituent, organization, or state government official. It sometimes means the sponsor does not fully agree with the bill. A list of business available for floor action. Both the House and Senate have their own calendars. The House has five calendars:. Appropriations , authorizations , and revenue tax or tariff bills go on the Union Calendar , while other important legislation, usually that dealing with administrative or procedural matters, goes on the House Calendar.
The Private Calendar is for private bills and usually is called up only on the first Tuesday of the month. The Corrections Calendar is for measures correcting government programs and is called up at the Speaker's discretion on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. The Discharge Calendar is used for discharge petitions. Measures are not taken from a calendar in any particular order. The Senate has only two calendars: the Calendar of Business commonly referred to as the Legislative calendar for all legislation and the Executive Calendar for treaties and nominations that require the Senate's advice and consent.
Congressional committees sometimes produce their own calendars but, unlike calendars in the full Chambers, these generally are lists of bills referred to the committee, with their disposition. The final calendar of a committee, in particular, is a useful tool for legislative history research.
Elected by their Chamber's majority party caucus, committee chairs usually are the most senior majority party member on the committee. The Chair sets the committee agenda and schedule in consultation with the majority members of the committee and the Chamber's party leadership.
He or she runs or "chairs" committee meetings, signs and files committee reports in the full Chamber, frequently acts as a reported bill's primary floor manager during floor debate, is responsible for the management of committee funds and staff, and often serves as a member of the conference committee on any bill over which the committee has jurisdiction.
Subcommittee chairs are elected by party caucus and have authority to set subcommittee agendas and schedules independent of the committee chair. The chair of a subcommittee that considered a particular bill is frequently appointed a conferee on that bill. Congress is made up of two Chambers: the House and the Senate. Originally referred to the two rooms of the Capitol in which the House of Representatives and the Senate met.
Any bill "adorned" like a Christmas tree with unrelated amendments. Generally occurs when the Senate takes up a relatively minor House-passed bill and "trims" it with any number of non-germane amendments. Frequently occurs at the end of a Congress, but recently supplanted by omnibus reconciliation legislation.
A bill, changed so thoroughly in the markup process that differentiating the amendments by typeface would produce an unintelligible bill print , may be introduced as a new "clean" bill and given a new number in the sequential numbering order.
A clean bill often is introduced by the subcommittee or committee chair within days of the markup action. The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, thereby overcoming a filibuster.
The two-step procedure begins with the filing of a petition for cloture signed by 16 Senators. A vote on cloture occurs two days after the petition is filed, and is considered successful if approved by three-fifths of the full Senate 60 votes, assuming that there are no vacancies.
After cloture has been invoked, no more than 30 hours of debate may occur, no Senator may speak for more than one hour, and no amendments may be proposed unless they are relevant and were filed on the day between the presentation of the cloture petition and the cloture vote.
A situation in the House when recorded votes are demanded on several measures that have been debated under the suspension of the rules procedure. The Speaker or presiding officer announces that any recorded votes requested on the measures will be postponed to a later hour or even a later day. When the time for the votes arrives, the bills are taken up in sequence without further debate. Members are permitted 15 minutes to vote on the first bill and five minutes to vote on each of the remaining bills.
In a collegial organization, decision-making is decentralized, involving equals who coalesce into temporary groups in order to reach a particular goal. In Congress, that goal is public policy. Collegial power flows in all directions in a collegial organization. Identifying features of a collegial organization include compromise and negotiation; characteristics seen in the publications resulting from the process. The Code of Federal Regulations CFR is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis. This is the House in another, more efficient, form, where much of the actual work on legislation occurs. The House as the Committee of the Whole operates under less restrictive rules, designed to speed up consideration of legislation. For example, members constitute a quorum in the Committee of the Whole, rather than the Member quorum in the House, and the length of debate is fixed by the Committee on Rules.
The workhorses of Congress, where much of the detailed legislative work occurs. Committees and their subcommittees examine measures during hearings and modify, accept, or reject them during markup.
A member serves on more than one committee and on several subcommittees within each of those committees. Committee jurisdictions are established by the rules of the Chamber. On occasion, special and select committees are established to investigate specific questions. A list of all committees can also be found in the Committee segment of LexisNexis Congressional. Each committee approves its own rules of procedure during the first months of a Congress.
These often are published individually in the Congressional Record on or shortly after the date they are approved and are published collectively as either a House or Senate document. Comparable bills introduced in both Chambers at the same time with substantially similar language.
Designation of bills as "companions" generally indicates some cooperation between their sponsors. Selected Members of the House and Senate who meet to resolve differences between two versions of a bill.
Members of the conference often are referred to as "managers" or "conferees". Jump to navigation. A vast resource of meetings organized by international organizations. The International Congress Calendar includes c. The Calendar covers meetings from to , c. Also included are national meetings with a large international participation. Information on all meetings is edited by an editorial staff and presented in a standardized format to facilitate comparison and statistical analysis. If your research needs and information requirements extend beyond the capabilities of the Calendar , please see our customized solutions.
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