[Deschler's Precedents, Volume 7, Chapters 22 - 25]
[Chapter 24. Bills, Resolutions, and Memorials]
[A. Introductory; Various Types of Bills, Resolutions, and Other Mechanisms for Action]
[Â§ 1. In General]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               CHAPTER 24
 
              Bills, Resolutions, Petitions, and Memorials
 
    A. INTRODUCTORY; VARIOUS TYPES OF BILLS, RESOLUTIONS, AND OTHER 
                         MECHANISMS FOR ACTION
 
Sec. 1. In General


    The objectives of this chapter are to define the various procedures 
by which measures are introduced and considered by the Congress and to 
describe the formal steps through which legislation must pass in order 
to become law. The role of the President in approving or vetoing 
measures submitted by the Congress is also considered.
    While the greater part of the business considered and voted upon in 
the two Houses of Congress is legislative in character, other kinds of 
business are taken up by resolution either in one House alone or in 
both Houses concurrently. These nonlegislative measures, while not 
having the force of statute and usually limited to declarations of 
policy or to the internal operations of Congress, nevertheless play an 
important procedural role. Examples of such business include measures 
expressing the opinions of Congress on political questions or 
establishing rules of parliamentary procedure.