Videos

C-SPAN"s Ilona Nickels talked about the procedures and rules for the opening day of the 107th Congress. She also responded to audience phone calls, faxes, and electronic mail.

Former Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove and Ilona Nickels of the Congressional Research Service taught a class on congressional rules and budget and appropriations process. The newly-creat…

Ms. Nickels discussed “how a bill becomes a law.” The vignette included video demonstrating the steps involved in making a law.

Ilona Nickels, Research Analyst, Congressional Research Service, Raymond Smock, Historian, U.S. House of Representative, and Richard Baker, Historian, U.S. Senate discussed the structure and…

Ms. Nickels explained the official “assembly line” flowchart of a bill progressing through Congress. An unofficial “shell game” is also described in which the contents of a bill can be shift…

The program looks at the process by which bills are considered on the House floor and how the schedule is determined.

House opening procedures such as the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the Journal and one-minute speeches are shown and discussed.

House amendment rules and procedures were discussed with Ilona Nickels, and illustrated with short clips from the House procedures.

At the end of each day session of the House of Representatives, members take up routine business matters. Ilona Nickels, of the Congressional Research Service, talked about the period at the…