How a Bill Becomes a Law
1st. The bill must be thought up by a party, elected official, or a complaint in your districted.
2nd. It gets sent to the House and the Senate to be put in a committee if they do not give the bill to a committee and instead hold on to it this is called pigeonholing.
3rd. If the bill gets put in a comity they must vote to move it to the floor or kill it.
4th. Then both the House and the Senate must send there bill to the Joint Conference to make one bill that they both can agree on.
5th. It gets sent back to the House and Senate and it must pass.
6th. It gets sent to the President. If he sighs it the bill becomes law. If he veto's the bill it gets sent back to the House and Senate and if they vote 2/3 it becomes law. The President also can pocket veto a bill which is when the President dose nothing and the is less then 10 days in a congressional session the bill dies if there is more the bill becomes law.
2nd. It gets sent to the House and the Senate to be put in a committee if they do not give the bill to a committee and instead hold on to it this is called pigeonholing.
3rd. If the bill gets put in a comity they must vote to move it to the floor or kill it.
4th. Then both the House and the Senate must send there bill to the Joint Conference to make one bill that they both can agree on.
5th. It gets sent back to the House and Senate and it must pass.
6th. It gets sent to the President. If he sighs it the bill becomes law. If he veto's the bill it gets sent back to the House and Senate and if they vote 2/3 it becomes law. The President also can pocket veto a bill which is when the President dose nothing and the is less then 10 days in a congressional session the bill dies if there is more the bill becomes law.