House Committee Markup: Vehicle for Consideration and Amendment (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
Revised July 17, 2008 |
| Report Number |
98-188 |
| Authors |
Judy Schneider, Government and Finance Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
The markup begins with the chair calling up a particular measure for consideration by the committee. The next action depends on the nature of the "markup vehicle" (i.e., the text that the chair intends for the committee to amend and report), which may be different from the measure laid before the panel for consideration. The vehicle can come before the committee in several different forms, each of which has its own procedural and political consequences.
The chair may lay before the committee either a bill that has been previously introduced and referred, or the text of a draft measure that has not been formally introduced. In each case, the text laid before the committee is itself the markup vehicle, but, in the second case, at the end of the markup process, the text must be incorporated or converted into a measure for reporting to the House. Alternatively, the markup vehicle may be placed before the committee as an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the bill or text initially called up. For more information on legislative process, see http://www.crs.gov/¿products/¿guides/¿guidehome.shtml.
