Making laws
markup
A committee session where members amend a measure line by line and vote on whether to report it to the full chamber.
In full
The working heart of committee work. In a markup, committee members go through a measure, offer and vote on amendments, and finally vote on whether to report the (often heavily rewritten) text to the full chamber. A measure that is never scheduled for markup usually never advances.
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