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Bills Becomes Law
How a Bill Becomes a Law
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who Makes the Laws | The Legislative Branch |
| Who Carries out the Laws | The Executive Branch |
| Who Interpretes the Laws | The Judicial Branch |
| President of the United States Requirements | 1. natural born citizen 2. 35 years old 3. 14 years residency |
| Speaker of the House | 1. appoints members to joint and conference committees 2. schedules legislation for action 3. refers bills to committee |
| Veto | The formal power of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of congress. A veto can be overriden by a 2/3 vote in Congress |
| The Senate is made up of how many members. | 100 |
| The House of Representative is made up of how many members. | 435 |
| Congress is composed of two separate chambers. | the Senate and the House of Representatives |
| The senate is sometimes called the | the upper house |
| The Senate Members serve longer terms that the House of Rep Members. | |
| Filibuster | A tactic used by senators to delay or prevent a vote from taking on a bill by delivering lengthy speeches |
| Pork Barrel Spending | Requests for government funds to be spent on improvements in a local district making him/her popular with its voters |
| Out of approximately 5,000 bills that are introduced each year, only about 150 actually become laws. | |
| Only members of Congress can introduce a bill to Congress. | |
| There are four basic types of legislation | bills; joint resolutions; concurrent resolutions; and simple resolutions. |
| A private bill affects a specific person or organization rather than the population at large. A public bill is one that affects the general public. | |
| A pocket veto | This occurs when the president takes no action and Congress has adjourned its session. In this case, the bill dies and does not become a law. |
| Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power. |
| Bill | A proposed new law introduced with a legislature that has not yet been passed, enacted or adopted |
| The duty of the Conference Committee | is to resolve disagreements on a certain bill. |
| Number of passed bills or resolutions in the 113th session of congress. | 624 |
| Number of laws that have been enacted by the 113th session of congress. | 185 |
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