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Custom Training

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.

 

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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.  

Request More Information About this Custom Training Program

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 See 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 TheCapitol.Net, Inc., is a non-partisan small business, and a Virginia corporation.  We are registered with CCR / SAM. See our Capability Statement and our About Us page for more details.

FEIN: 54-1917701     DUNS: 04-273-5071      CAGE: 1K5S4
 

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
     

Need more information?
  • Phone: 202-678-1600

  • Email: custom -at- TheCapitol.Net

  • Complete our online custom program information request.

    Request More Information About this Custom Training Program

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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
 

See more testimonials about this program.

 

See what some of the attendees at our custom programs say about our custom training.

 

Faculty

All faculty who teach this course have a minimum of 15 years experience tracking and monitoring legislation.

 

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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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