I was browsing around the Office of the Clerk website and found How Our Laws Are Made over at Thomas. This is downloadable as a 204 K PDF document, 67 pages.

This is the 23rd edition of ‘‘How Our Laws Are Made’’, which was first published in 1953 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives to explain how laws are made in the 108th Congress.

I am in the process of trying to print this document out and read it over to give me a better idea of what is going on with these poor family caregiver bills that are having such a hard time making it through Congress, but my printer just messed up and droppped two sheets so my booklet was offset and did not print out properly.  :::sighs:::  I need to reprint the document, feeding it into the printer one page at a time on the second run, and then I can read over it.

After having watched Congress for the past couple of years, and seeing a lot of caregiver bills vanish into the abyss, I have decided that I want to take a closer look at it all this year, so, I have decided that I am going to watch what they do in terms of anything that effects family caregivers.  So, I am going to start looking at their work during the week and dissecting it here on this blog.

I will be taking the floor summary from the Office of the Clerk’s website and looking at the relevant parts here on Family Caregiver Info.  I had actually thought to do this back even before congress first convened, but trying to get the house heater repaired and working to earn a little money writing got in the way, now I am going to be working on catching up for the past week of Congress.

We will start with day 1 here and look at what they did.   You can find the Floor Summaries archived in the forum under 11th Congress, please feel free to join in discussion about the things that Congress is up to, particularly where it concerns family caregivers.