CJ Workshop Resources

9:15 – 9:45 Welcome and Introduction

9:45 – 10:45 Knowing Your Audience, I: Understanding Congress

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Knowing Your Audience, II: Understanding the Appropriators

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 How to Read Congressional Appropriations Documents

14:00 – 14:15 Break

14:15 – 15:30 OMB’s Role in the CJs Process

9:00 – 10:30 How to Think Like an Appropriator

Note: Participants break up into groups to review CJs and develop “requests for information” and present

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:45 Request for Information (RFI) and Reprogramming

11:45 – 12:45 Groups Review CJs Documents and Rewrite CJs Portion

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45- 15:15 Presentations and Discussion

Note: Groups present their rewritten CJs

15:15 – 15:45 Lessons Learned: The CJs Process and Understanding Staff