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Congressional Budget Resolutions: Motions to Instruct Conferees (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Aug. 15, 2001
Report Number RS20480
Report Type Report
Authors Robert Keith, Government and Finance Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Both the House and the Senate have procedures whereby the full bodies may issue instructions to conferees on budget resolutions, usually in the form of a motion. The practices of the House and Senate regarding such motions differ markedly in key respects. First, the House resorts to such motions regularly (having considered 10 such motions in the past 12 years), while the Senate seldom uses them. Second, the House has considered only one motion per budget resolution, while the Senate considered five motions on one budget resolution. Finally, the House regards the motion to instruct conferees strictly as a prerogative of the minority party, while the Senate does not.