Sen. Alben W. Barkley (D-KY), who stumbled then succeded in gaining the right of first recogniton in 1937. Source: Library ...
Discharge Petition to Move the Civil Rights Bill Out of the Rules Committee, December 12, 1963. This petition failed to ...
A Speaker of the House vacated as imagined by DALL-E. The motion to vacate, as it is commonly called, is a ...
Source: C-SPAN. According to House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House, "The motion for the ...
You'll find the answer in this video. The Sunwater Institute's Matt Chervenak interviews Former House Parliamentarian, Tom Wickham. The answer ...
Congress.gov is the go-to source for official information on the legislative process. There you can find bills in the current ...
The Congressional Research Service created a video series on legislative procedure in Congress. It is an easy-to-follow and authoritative explainer ...
Source: Congress.gov. Democrats held the presidency and Senate, Republicans had a narrow Hosue majority. The nation's debt limit needed raised lest ...
Source: Senate.gov. "While the Senate is often bound in arcane procedural knots, Senate holds are relatively straightforward. The Senate often does ...
Source: YouTube.com Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) has a short and illuminating post on how he got a law enacted to create parental leave ...
Americans who tune into C-SPAN to see the Senate at work may well be surprised by what they do not ...
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