How a Bill Becomes a Law Bill is Introduced 1 Large amount of citizens request a law 2 An organization requests a law 3 Congressional Investigation Committees discover findings that require new laws ID: 223872
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How a Bill Becomes a LawSlide2
Bill is Introduced
1. Large amount of citizens request a law.
2. An organization requests a law.
3. Congressional Investigation Committees discover findings that require new laws.
4.Individual members of Congress construct laws.
5. The president encourages Congress to make laws.Slide3
How the Bill Becomes a Law
Introduced to the House
Sent to House Standing Committee
Committee studies and revises the bill
The House votes on the bill
IF THE BILL PASSESSlide4
Senate
The bill is introduced to the Senate
Sent to the Senate standing committee
The bill is DEBATED
The bill is voted on.
IF THE BILL PASSESSlide5
Conference Committee
If there are two different versions of the same bill
Committee of both houses rewrite the bill to form a compromise
The bill then must be
voted
on
again in
both houses.Slide6
The President
The President has three options
1. He can sign the bill and it passes.
2. He can veto the bill
3. He can let it lay on his desk for ten days and it is automatically vetoed called a
pocket veto.Slide7
Senate’s Debate
Must have a
quorum
– majority of members – present to vote.
Filibuster
– method of making lengthy speeches to delay action on the bill.
Cloture
– limit debate in the SenateSlide8
Special Bills
The house will sometimes try to combine bills or add amendments to bills.
Germane
amendments to bills meant the addition is relevant to the bill.
Riders
are additions that have nothing to do with the bill – usually concerns funding for something.
Congress also has the power to create any laws “necessary and proper” which means they can extend their delegated powers =
elastic clause