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The Constitution provides that the Senate and the House of Representatives each “may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.” From the first Congress in 1789, a parliamentary practice evolved. Currently Congress operates under the provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, which modified the rules of the two houses in certain important respects, subject to the constitutional right of either house to change them again at any time. The legislation was enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively.
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Schultz, H.W. (1981). The Enactment of Federal Legislation. In: Food Law Handbook. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7373-5_5
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