Expedited Procedures in the House: Variations Enacted Into Law

Davis, Christopher M.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Congress;    House rules and procedure;    Expedited congressional procedure;   

RP-ID  :  RL30599
RP-ID  :  RL30599_2011May11

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Congress enacts expedited, or fast-track, procedures into law when it wants to increase the likelihood that one or both houses of Congress will vote in a timely way on a certain measure or kind of measure. These procedures are enacted as rulemaking provisions of law pursuant to the constitutional power of each house to adopt its own rules. The house to which a set of expedited procedures applies may act unilaterally to waive, suspend, amend, or repeal them.