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Part of our “The More You Know” series, this is a ‘refresher class’ on how the government functions (or supposed to anyway).
This information is free to the public paid for with all of our tax dollars.
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Free to the Public on Congress.gov, the Law Library of Congress provides webinars to help citizens learn about how Congress is run. This stream is composted of nine videos created by the Library of Congress. Each explain part of the “common legislative stages, and that the process by which a bill becomes law is rarely predictable.”
Source:
https://www.congress.gov/legislative-process

Section Length
1. Overview of the Legislative Process 5:09
2. Introduction and Referral of Bills 3:19
3. Committee Consideration 3:39
4. Calendars and Scheduling 2:35
5. House Floor 3:53
6. Senate Floor 4:17
7. Executive Business in the Senate 1:59
8. Resolving Differences 3:29
9. Presidential Actions 1:58