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Chapter 7: Congress at Work

Chapter 7: Congress at Work. Section 1: How a Bill Becomes a Law. Private Bill Deal with individual people and places Ie: bill to waive immigration requirements so that an American woman could marry a man from Greece. Public Bills Deal with general matters and apply to the entire nation

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Chapter 7: Congress at Work

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  1. Chapter 7: Congress at Work

  2. Section 1: How a Bill Becomes a Law

  3. Private Bill Deal with individual people and places Ie: bill to waive immigration requirements so that an American woman could marry a man from Greece Public Bills Deal with general matters and apply to the entire nation Ie: lowing taxes, national health insurance, gun control, etc Types of Bills

  4. Why so FEW bills become laws… • Lawmaking process is long and complicated…easy for bill to become delayed, killed, changed • Due to long process, sponsors of bills must be willing to bargain/compromise with lawmakers • Lawmakers sometimes only introduce bills to attract attention, not to make it an actual law

  5. So, I know, your dying to know… How does a Bill Become a Law?:)

  6. How Bills are Introduced • Ideas for bills come from: citizens, interest groups, prez, etc • Given a title and a number in either house (HR or S)

  7. Committee Action • In each house, bills sent to standing committees that deal with subject matter • Sometimes sent to subcommittees for hearings/revisions • Sometimes they rewrite, make changes and send it back to House/Senate for floor action • ***in House: bills must be sent to Rules Committee for debate and amendments

  8. Reporting a Bill • Once committee work is done, they vote to kill or report it • To report a bill means Floor for action to sent it to the House/Senate

  9. Floor Action • Bill is debated on the House/Senate floor • Voting on the bill follows the debate • Bill passes and goes to other house for approval

  10. Sometimes… • Conference Committee Action • If the other house will not accept the version of the bill from the other it goes to conference committee • CC tries to work out differences between versions • House & Senate must vote on a compromise bill

  11. Approved Bill goes to the Prez • Prez can reject a bill with a veto: refusal to sign bill and returns it to where it originated • Prez can kill w/ pocket veto: if bill passed during last 10 days of congress is in session he can refuse to act on it • Congress can override a prez veto with 2/3 vote in both houses

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