Number: 98-728
Title: Bills, Resolutions, Nominations, and Treaties: Origins, Deadlines, Requirements, and Uses
Authors: Richard S. Beth, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: In each chamber of Congress, four forms of legislative measure may be introduced (or, for resolutions, submitted) and acted on: bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and resolutions of one house ("simple resolutions"). In addition, under the Constitution the Senate acts on two forms of executive business: nominations and treaties. This report provides a tabular comparison of the formal characteristics and uses of these six different kinds of business.
Pages: 2
Date: November 26, 2008