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tation and Infrastructure Ways and Means 眾議院委員會(huì) House Committees ? International Relations Government Reform Education and the Workforce Judiciary House Administration Small Business Veterans Affairs House Rules No parallel mittee Standards of Official Conduct Permanent Select Comm. on Intelligence No parallel mittee Select Committee on Homeland Security 第五節(jié) 國會(huì)的議事程序 ? bill introduction ? referral to mittee(s) ? mittee hearings ? mittee markup ? mittee report ? scheduling legislation ? house: special rules, suspension of the rules, or privileged matter ? senate: unanimous consent agreements or motions to proceed ? floor debate ? floor amendment ? vote on final passage ? reconciling differences between the house and senate 第五節(jié) 國會(huì)的議事程序 ? amendments between the houses, or ? conference mittee negotiations ? floor debate on conference report ? floor vote on conference report ? conference version presented to the president ? president signs into law or allows bill to bee law without his signature ? president vetoes bill ? first chamber vote on overriding veto ? second chamber vote on overriding veto ? bill bees law if 2/3 vote to override is achieved in both chambers ? bill fails to bee law if one chamber fails to override 第五節(jié) 國會(huì)的議事程序 ? Types of Legislation ? Bills. These bee law. That means passage is required in both the House and Senate and the President must sign them into law or allow them to bee law without his signature. Bills are numbered . in the House, . . 1300。 and . in the Senate, (. . 133). By tradition, it is joint resolutions which are used for any proposal to amend the Constitution. Contrary to bills, joint resolutions may also contain a series of whereas clauses (an explanatory preamble) and a resolving clause. 第五節(jié) 國會(huì)的議事程序 ? Types of Legislation ? Concurrent Resolutions. These do not bee law. Instead they take an action on behalf of both chambers. This means both the House and Senate must pass them, but they are not sent on to the President. For example, concurrent resolutions are used to set the spending and revenue levels in the Congressional Budget Resolution, which does not rise to the level of law. Concurrent resolutions are also used for sense of Congress language advisory in nature and unenforceable which, for example, expresses the opinion of the Congress about a Presidential action, or congratulates a foreign leader on his election, or expresses condolences to another nation for a loss. Concurrent resolutions are also used to create the occasional joint mittee of Congress, and for administrative acts, such as granting the use of the Capitol Rotunda for a ceremony. Concurrent resolutions are numbered . in the House, . . 210。 and . in the Senate, . . 85. 第六節(jié) 國會(huì)的未來 ? 提高效率 ? 增強(qiáng)影響力 政治家的建議 ? Ten Things I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach about Congress ? Remarks by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture American Political Science Association annual meeting August 31, 2022 政治家的建議 ? 1) Congress is the most important link between the American people and their national government. ? 2) Congress has a major impact on people39