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Title: Procedures


1
Procedures
  • Rules play bigger role in House (Senate is more
    informal)
  • Filibuster
  • Standing Committees (19 in House, 17 in Senate)
  • Select Committees, Joint Committees, Conference
    Committees
  • Committee Chairs

2
Staff and Support Agencies
  • Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  • General Accounting Office (GAO)
  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

3
  • Other activities of Congress
  • Oversight of executive branch
  • -Investigations, impeachment

4
Judging the Congress
  • Criticisms inefficiency, logrolling,
    distributive tendency, corruption
  • Trust in Congress relatively low

5
Reforming the Congress?
  • Term limits
  • Campaign finance reform
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