AMERICAN CONGRESS

How a Bill Becomes Law in Congress

How a Bill Becomes Law in Congress

Introduction of United States Congress

The US Congress based on the bicameral legislature of the federal government. It consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress divides the work of writing national legislation through managing different committees which have expertise in different areas (Donovan, 2004).

Process of the bill to become law

The normal process of conversion of a bill into a law is present in the Constitution. This process consists of following details, which are as follows:

Submission of Bill

Bill starts from various sources, but initially from members of Congress or may be submit to a member by a constituent or couple of constituents (Donovan, 2004).

Representatives, in the House forward the bill to a bin which is for receiving new bills.

In Senate, submission of bill occurs in the office of President.

Bills usually bring into attention in either house, as discussed earlier; and to come as a law a bill has to pass both houses of congress (Egan, 2004).

Committees

The Senate and the house of Congress both have further divisions called committees. Each committee deals by means of a topic, also dived into more sub committees for further more specialized topic. Whenever a bill goes to a committee, then that committee forwards it to a sub-committee. For further correspondence on the bill, the considerations are must. A subcommittee's member vote for it but if a bill does not get the maximum votes it fails at this step. If a bill, passes then it goes to the full house for further process (Hamilton, 2005).

House Procedure

A bill accepted by the committee goes to the full house for further consideration. In the presence of full house, the debate occurs over the bill. After it a second reading occurs, and when the Committee finishes ...