Tracking and Monitoring Legislation
How to Find and Use Congressional Documents
Learn how the pros find and work
with congressional documents
Do your staff find and track legislation? Do they know
various methods to monitor the changes in legislation?
Do you want them to better utilize your resources and save
time in the process? Our expert faculty share their
secrets and tips and show how tracking and monitoring
legislation tracks the complexities of how a bill becomes a
law.
This training will help your staff:
Learn the fastest ways
to find and use congressional documents
corresponding to each step in the legislative
process--in print and
online.
Identify different types and versions of bills,
committee and conference reports, and leadership
documents are identified.
Master the
Congressional Record--Congress' official
account of congressional activity--is
demystified.
More Information
Sample Agenda
Audience Level
Course Materials
Fee
Related
Training
Related Resources
Custom Training Information
Sample Agenda
Welcome and Introductions
Overview of Congressional Documents
The Legislative Process and Corresponding Documents
Types and Versions of Legislation
Committee Documents
Committee Calendars, Prints, Markup, and Reports
Legislative Status Documents
Leadership Documents and and Legislative Advisories
House Calendar
Resolutions from the House Rules Committee
Senate Calendar of Business
Senate Executive Calendar
Senate Unanimous Consent Agreements
Whip Notices
The Congressional Record
Conference Reports
Conference and Presidential Documents
A Working Example: Following a Bill through the Process
Research Tools, Search Tips, and Web sites
GPO Access / FDsys.gov
Thomas
Alert Services
Breaks scheduled as appropriate
All custom training is tailored for each organization and
audience. Topics from this program can be combined with
topics from our other programs and with topics from your
existing training programs.
Sample Agendas
Sample agendas of different versions of this program
tailored for previous custom clients are available in
Adobe PDF.
1/2 day for national corporation
As part of 1-day research program "Tracking Regulations,
Legislation, and the Law" for a federal agency
As part of 1-day program "Understanding Congress, the
Legislative Process and Tracking Legislation" for
multi-national corporation
1.5 days for national law firm
- Tracking and Monitoring the Legislative Process
See our Sample Agendas page
for more.
Audience Level
Basic knowledge of the legislative process or
completion of
Understanding Congress or
Congress and the Legislative Process
recommended. All staff who must follow
legislative developments, including staff of
companies in regulated industries and all federal
agencies, will benefit from this training.
Audience Size
This program is most effective for between 15 and 30
attendees.
Previous Clients
Variations of this program have been presented for
federal agencies and multi-national corporations.
Our
selected client list includes clients who have
purchased custom training, sent staff to our public
programs and who have purchased our publications.
Course Materials
Extensive course manual of more than 225 pages,
including material from the
Congressional Deskbook.
Length and Location
Usually requires 1/2 to 1 day.
This program is usually held in Washington, DC. It can
be presented anywhere in the world online.
Fee
The fee for this program depends on the location,
number of attendees, length, and training materials. Call us for details, or complete our
custom program information request for more
information.
What
is included in the fee?
TheCapitol.Net tailors each program to meet your
training and educational objectives. Before we issue
a cost proposal,
we will work with you to tailor a program to meet
your training objectives.
The
program
fee includes pre-program development and design,
materials for your internal marketing and promotion,
all course materials, and
faculty chosen for your topic and your audience
at the time and location you choose.
Our custom program clients provide the
classroom/meeting space, all audio visual equipment,
any food and beverages, all registration functions,
and travel arrangements for attendees. When the
program is held outside the Washington, DC metro
area, travel arrangements for faculty can be made by
the client or by us.
We can also provide meeting space,
online venue, audio visual
equipment, food and beverage, registration, and
travel arrangements, though this affects program
cost.
FAQs
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FAQs About Our Custom
Training.
Payment
Payment methods we accept for custom training
include checks and EFT/ACH.
Related Custom Training
Advanced Legislative Procedure
Capitol Hill Workshop
Congress in a Nutshell:
Understanding Congress
Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative
Process
How to Research
and Compile Legislative Histories
Research Skills for the Real World
About Us
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business, and a Virginia corporation. We are
registered with CCR / SAM. See our
Capability Statement and our
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Related Resources
Legislative History Reference and Research Tools
Congressional Documents Online
Internet Resources handout from our Legal
Research course
Legal Reference and Research Tools
Legislation and Legislatures,
including national and state and local links
Online Regulatory Research Resources
Real World Research Skills
Statutory Construction and Interpretation,
Government Series
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Email: custom -at- TheCapitol.Net
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Non-Partisan
TheCapitol.Net is a non-partisan firm, and the
opinions of its faculty, authors, clients and the
owners and operators of its vendors are their own
and do not represent those of TheCapitol.Net.
All custom training from TheCapitol.Net is tailored for each organization and
audience. Topics from this program can be combined with
topics from our other programs and with topics from your
existing training programs.
Rave Reviews
"I can look at documents and have a better
understanding of what they mean and how to deal with
them. They don't seem so much like Greek."
--
Congressional Researcher, Litton Industries
"Picked up lots of new info, also developed new
ideas. Lots of new web sites to review."
--
Legislative Research Specialist, USDA
"This course provides you with knowledge of resources
that help you work more efficiently and effectively."
--
Communications Manager, American Heart Association
"I track legislation on a daily basis and this course
made the process clear."
"Outstanding insight & essential practical advice
on how to effectively navigate through the sometimes
overwhelming myriad of Congressional documents."
--
Senate Fellow, U.S. Coast Guard
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Faculty
All faculty who teach this course have a minimum of
15 years experience tracking and monitoring
legislation.
Internal Marketing
To help you publicize and market a custom program to
your organization's audience, we can provide printed
materials and language for your own internal
promotion and publicity.
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