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| After a bill is introduced in either the
House or the Senate, it is assigned to a
committee. If a committee votes to report
a bill favorably to the House or the Senate,
a written report is submitted describing
the legislation and explaining the committee's
action. These reports often provide a section-by-section
analysis of a bill and include recommended
amendments. Committee reports are important
documents in determining the legislative
intent of Congress. These documents are known
as ‘House Reports' or ‘Senate Reports.' A committee report will occasionally contain an official MARKUP summary with the recorded committee votes as to the markup. A markup is a record of proposed amendments to the original bill at either the subcommittee or committee stage. (The bill is literally marked up with changes.) While markups are not officially published as stand alone documents, recently, commercial publishers have been taking notes of committee meetings and providing unofficial markup summaries. These summaries often include how each of the committee members voted as to the markup. (Law students may access these summaries using the Lexis files: (1) Committee Markups and Votes (Sept. 1999 through the present); and (2) Committee Markups - Historical (Jan. 10, 1995 through Nov. 15 1995)). |
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H.R. Rep. No. 353, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951). |
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