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Government Final
Presidential expansion of power how a bill becomes a law
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Introducing the Bill | Seven steps |
| Step one of introducing the bill | speaker of the house decides who speaks |
| Step two introducing the bill | part of the agenda setting |
| Step three introducing the bill | people who wrote it summarizes it |
| Step four introducing the bill | then gets voted to the floor |
| Step five introducing the bill | must get Seconded |
| Step six introducing the bill | interest vote to see if it should get referred to a committee |
| Step seven introducing the bill | speaker of the house decides which committees and how many the bill gets sent to |
| committe review | 6 steps, interest groups come in at this point for the experts on the bill |
| step one committee review | referral decisions |
| step two committe review markup | adjusted for what people want compromised period to make it better bill will be changed we compromised because it needs vote for support aka the water down period earmarks (additions) where stuff gets added to it |
| step three committee review discharge | it's leaving the committee from markup could go to another committee other committees will add their own markups simply means the majority of the committees have approved it gets discharge from all the committees and it gets sent back to the floor |
| Step four committee review floor debate and passage | speaker could table the bill for discussion (goes to the bottom of the pile) because it has been through so many markups that it isn't the same bill only ones that can speak now are members of congress or president when he is invited for state of the un |
| Step five committee review | The bill goes to the senate |
| Step six committee review presidential approval | 1. Point blank Veto it 2. Pocket Veto members of congress are getting ready to go on break, any thing they pass within 10 days of their recess and he can ignore till they come back and the it expires and he doesn't have to veto it, doesn't go back to |