How Does a Bill Become a Law?

The topic was covered in an iconic 1970s Schoolhouse Rock cartoon (“I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill …”), but many Americans don’t know how the nation’s laws are actually made.

With a controversial reform of the United States healthcare system making its way through Congress and landmark measures being considered for immigration reform and other hot-button political issues, it is more important now than ever for informed citizens to fully understand the law-making process.

BILL INTRODUCED, HEARINGS HELD

The process for making federal laws is spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 7. Proposed new laws may be introduced in the form of documents called bills by members of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate, or the President and members of his administration may suggest new bills.Morehttp://www.attorneyatlaw.com/2009/11/how-does-a-bill-become-a-law/

How Does a Bill Become a Law?