Enactment of a Law

by Robert B. Dove, Parliamentarian, U.S. Senate
Updated February 1997

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Table of Contents (Document by Section)

• Introduction
• Contrasting Procedures of the Senate and the House
• Forms of Legislative Business
• Origins of Legislation
• Beginning a Daily Session of the Senate
• Calendar and Legislative Days
• Morning Hour and Morning Business
• Presenting Measures
• Motions, Quorums, and Votes
• Motions
• Quorums
• Voting
• Senate Officials on the Floor
• Senate Committee Consideration
• Committee Rules
• Committee Reports
• Considering Measures on the Senate Floor
• The Amendment Process
• Final Passage
• Engrossment and Transmittal to the House
• House Committee Consideration
• House Floor Action
• Messages and Amendments Between the Houses
• Senate Action on House Amendments
• Bills Originating in the House
• Conference Committees and Reports
• Senate and House Action on Conference Reports
• Signatures of Speaker and Vice President
• Presidential Action -- Approval or Veto
• The Congressional Budget Process
• Executive Business and Executive Sessions
• Executive Matters Generally
• Nominations
• Treaties
• Amendments, Reservations, and Other Statements
• Ratification of Treaties

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