"Lessons From The Hill" ( Janet Martin )

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Every high school civics textbook has a version of a diagram entitled something like "How a bill becomes law." The diagram outlines the formal stages through which a piece of legislation is enacted, as prescribed by the Constitution and the rules of the two houses of Congress.

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"How a Bill Really Becomes Law

Every high school civics textbook has a version of a diagram entitled something like "How a bill becomes law." The diagram outlines the formal stages through which a piece of legislation is enacted, as prescribed by the Constitution and the rules of the two houses of Congress.

A measure is introduced, in one house or the other (subject to constitutional restrictions, such as that a spending bill must originate in the House). It is referred to the appropriate committee in the house where it is introduced, and then to a subcommittee. Hearings are held, amendments are voted on, and eventually the measure as amended is voted out of the subcommittee and then the full committee, with a recommendation in favor or opposed to its passage by the full body. If the committee ..."

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