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How Our Laws Are Made
Explains how legislation is created and the different types of congressional
action that result from it.
Enactment of a Law
Explains the legislative process, contrasting the procedures of the House
and Senate.
Kids in the House
The Clerk's
Kids in the House Web site teaches students about the American government,
House members and committees, House history, and how laws are made.
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House
Practice
A guide
to the rules, precedents and procedures of the House.
Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, 109th Congress
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Current procedures of the U.S. House of Representatives and the legislative
process. Includes brief descriptions for legislative terms and other types
of terms.
Committee on Rules
Website for the House Committee on Rules.
Committee
on Standards of Official Conduct
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Floor Procedures
An explanation of the official procedures for the House floor.
General Parliamentary Procedure
Links to information about House parliamentary procedure.
Parliamentary
Terms and Definitions
Terms and definitions associated with the official procedures governing
the operations of the House.
Deschler's
Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives
Identifies precedents and practices of the House from 19361986.
Compilation of volumes 19 of this series was initially undertaken
by House Parliamentarian Lewis Deschler (b.1903d.1976). Precedents
and practices since 1986 have been published under the title Deschler-Brown
Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives, which begins with volume
10. Currently, the series is compiled by Parliamentarian Emeritus William
Holmes Brown.
Hinds'
and Cannon's Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives
Provides an historical overview and in-depth description of House precedents
during the period 1789 through 1936. This multivolume series was compiled
by two House Parliamentarians who later became Representatives (Clarence
A. Cannon, D-MO, and Asher S. Hinds, R-ME). The Government Printing Office
provides the full text of Deschler's Precedents.
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