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This report addresses Types and Forms of Amendments in the House.

This report briefly discusses these procedures as they relate to legislative business conducted on the floor and in committee.

This report describes these expedited parliamentary procedures abd explains how they differ from the regular legislative processes of Congress.

The Senate publishes its rules, precedents, and other related information so that Senators and their staff have convenient access to the Senate's legislative procedures and can gauge how those procedures are likely to apply in various situations. Information about the Senate's legislative procedures is published in four official documents. This report briefly discusses these documents.

This report discusses procedures that usually occur every session day and notes certain business items that occur less frequently.

This report discusses the Expedited or "fast-tract" legislative procedures that are special procedures that congress adopts to promote timely committee and floor action on a specifically defined type of bill or resolution.

This report provides an overview of the scheduling and notification of the House Committee hearings.

Several authorities govern the daily chamber work of the Senate: its standing rules, standing orders, unanimous consent agreements, precedent, and tradition. Because these authorities have different influence at certain times, no Senate session day is truly typical. This report discusses procedures and business that usually occur every session day, and refers to certain business items that may occur less frequently.

This report explains the history, procedure, specific uses of resolutions of inquiry, and notes recent increases in their usage.

The amending process is central to the consideration of legislation by the Senate. This report briefly describes the various types of amendments that take place in the Senate.

This report examines officers who represent territories and properties possessed or administered by the United States but not admitted to statehood, the five House Delegates and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico are not Members of Congress, and do not enjoy all the same parliamentary rights as Members. They may vote and otherwise act similarly to Members in legislative committee; may not vote in the House, but may participate in debate and make most motions there; and, under a rule adopted in the 110th Congress, may vote in Committee of the Whole subject to an immediate revote in the House if their votes are decisive.

The conference report presents the formal legislative language on which the conference committee has agreed. The joint explanatory statement explains the various elements of the conferees agreement in relation to the positions that the House and Senate had committed to the conference committee.

This report briefly discusses these procedures as they relate to legislative business conducted on the floor and in committee.

This report describes the basic methods that are used by the Senate to bring legislation to the floor for consideration.

This report, one of the series of reports on legislative process, explains calendars and their use in the House of Representatives.