Making laws
concurrent resolution
A measure (H.Con.Res. or S.Con.Res.) that both chambers pass but the President never signs. It settles Congress's internal business and carries no force of law.
In full
Concurrent resolutions handle matters that concern both chambers and nobody else: setting the budget resolution's targets, fixing an adjournment date, correcting an enrolled bill, or expressing the sense of Congress. Because they never go to the President, they bind no agency and no citizen. Reading one as a change in the law is the most common mistake made with them.
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