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There are many steps needed to pass a bill into Congress. Also, since anyone is allowed to produce a bill, there are many bills that come into contact with the subcommittees and committees, thus creating a huge build-up of possible bills. Fortunately, most don’t make it far enough to become law. For this purpose, the steps and procedures required are great in number, but make the process as a whole work. The four basic types of legislation are bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions. In the start, a bill is proposed to committee and either the House or Senate approves that it is worthy of being pursued by following their rules of choosing what is a “good” idea, or needed as a bill. Once a bill is referred, it is then placed on the committee calendar and is given to either a subcommittee or a committee as a whole. Based on where it is placed, the group that is looking at it determines whether it is suitable to become a legal bill. If the committees choose to not pursue the bill, it dies. If a bill moves on, it is put up for review. The subcommittees research and discuss the points of the bill determining what the people like and what they dislike, if anything, and decide if they see anything that could be changed in the future to make it better.
Approximate Word count = 925
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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