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How a bill becomes a law.


In a typical year, Senators The term Senators can refer to:
  • The pop band from Paisley in the 1960s
  • The pop band from the 1990s
  • The members (or legislators) of a senate
  • The Singing Senators, a group of U.S. Republican Senators who sang as a barbershop quartet.
 and Representatives introduce up to 5,000 bills (proposed laws). But only about 150 become law. Read the diagram diagram /di·a·gram/ (di´ah-gram) a graphic representation, in simplest form, of an object or concept, made up of lines and lacking pictorial elements.  from top to bottom to see how laws are made. Note: This diagram shows a bill going through the House and Senate at the same time. A bill can also be passed by one house of Congress and then go to the other for action. Tax bills must be introduced in the House; all others can begin in either the House or Senate.

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Questions

1. What is a bill? --

2. What type of bill must be introduced in the House? --

3. After a bill is introduced, it is referred to --

4. If committee action is favorable fa·vor·a·ble  
adj.
1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds.

2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis.

3.
, where does the bill go? --

5. If one house of Congress passes a bill, what happens next? --

6. What does a conference committee do? --

7. If both houses of Congress pass a compromise bill, where does it go? --

8. If the President approves a bill, what happens? --

9. What happens if the President vetoes the bill? --

10. What does it take to override An arrangement whereby commissions are made by sales managers based upon the sales made by their subordinate sales representatives. A term found in an agreement between a real estate agent and a property owner whereby the agent keeps the right to receive a commission for the sale of  a veto veto [Lat.,=I forbid], power of one functionary (e.g., the president) of a government, or of one member of a group or coalition, to block the operation of laws or agreements passed or entered into by the other functionaries or members.

In the U.S.
? --

Answers

1. a proposed law

2. tax bill

3. a committee and subcommittee sub·com·mit·tee  
n.
A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee.


subcommittee
Noun
 

4. the full House (or Senate)

5. The bill goes to the other house.

6. It writes a compromise bill.

7. the President

8. The bill becomes law.

9. The bill is rejected unless Congress overrides the veto.

10. two-thirds vote by each house of Congress
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