legislative branch lawmaking process

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Legislative Branch: Lawmaking Process

Lesson 3, Unit: The Federal System

Is the lawmaking process

just or fair?

Take-Home Point

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Notes So True/So False

Today’s Agenda

Which one of the 18 do you think is the most

important?

Powers of Congress

Lawmaking

One of the most important expressed powers that Congress has is Making the laws of the nation.

A bill is a

proposed law or a draft of a law

Lawmaking

NO!

YES!

Why do we have rough drafts when we write?

A Step Back

Ideas for laws can

come from members of Congress, voters favoring certain bills, a large group of Americans asking for bill, and the President

Individuals and interest groups help shape laws

Lawmaking

What does the process look like?

Lawmaking

The process

begins with the introduction of a bill by a Senator or Representative in Congress.

Step 1

The bill is then to

sent to a committee in the house of Congress it started in

Here it gets debated and revised

Step 2

The bill is debated

on the floor of each house*

*NOT AT THE SAME TIME- it goes all the way through one house first and THEN begins the process again

Step 3

The bill is

voted on in each house

Step 4

The president

signs the bill into a law

Step 5

Can I use my pink pen to sign it?!

A bill can begin in

either house with the exception of appropriation bills or bills that deal with money which begin in the House of Representatives

Lawmaking

If the president

vetoes a bill, Congress can override the veto with a two-thirds vote in both houses.

Lawmaking

Most bills do not

survive this process (Less than 5% become laws).

Lawmaking

You will survive, Bill!!

Probs not, dude!

So True/So False

Hold up your cards to indicate your response. Blue is true, and green is false.

A bill on gun control can begin

in either house.

So True/So False

Once a bill has successfully gone

through the process in the House of Representatives, the Senators just need to vote on it, and then it can go to the president.

So True/So False

A bill can die (be thrown out or

forgotten) in the committee phase of the process in either house.

So True/So False

Only Congressmen can propose

ideas about laws.

So True/So False

Most bills become laws.

So True/So False

The President has the final say on whether or

not a bill becomes a law.

So True/So False

The process of making laws is

very straightforward and simple.

So True/So False

Is the lawmaking process

just or fair?

Take-Home Point