Floor Deliberations and Scheduling

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Excerpt from Floor Deliberations and Scheduling: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, May 18, 20, and 25, 1993 Mr. Brown. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chairman and Members of the committee, 1958 seems like a long time ago. And I was struck by that this morning when I picked up the rule book from 1958, when I started, and compared it to the rule book of today. A lot has gone under the bridge in those 35 years. The new edition for the 103d Congress is at the printer at the moment. I hate to tell you but it is bigger than this. We pick up pages of precedents and rules every year. Our invitation from the committee asked that we might address two topics, since we are sort of bridging the gap between your juris dictional hearings and the hearings that will go on to the Floor procedure. The first was the evolution of the referral process. In 1958, referrals were relatively simple. You read a bill, and you decided which committee had the predominance of jurisdiction. If you saw the words Internal Revenue Code, it was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, regardless of whether that reference was a minute part of the bill. All tax matters went to Ways and Means, no other committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.