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Essay 4Olivia DavisonEach term, thousands of bills are introduced to Congress, but only a very small percentage of these bills become laws in the United State. The entire bill process is lengthy and sometimes very difficult to achieve ultimatums. The initial step of creating a bill is to draft a proposal of the bill from mainly members congress, the executive branch and even other outside groups of special interests. After the bill is drafted, only members of congress are allowed to introduce the bill to the house and/or senate. The spokesperson for this bill is assigned to send the bill to a certain committee. Most of the time, the number assigned to this bill is reflected upon importance or relevance. This stage of the bill process is where most bills tend to die if they are not favored. Once a bill is passed, it then moves onto hearings in which the committee invited other people or groups of mostly special interest people to testify in physicality. Here the bill is evaluated precisely and to generate publicity in attempt to suggest its success. Next, the committee may decide to report on the bill to theentire committee to accept, reject or amend it. After this stage the bill is scheduled for debate meaning that it is put on the house or senate calendar to be discussed about. The billis then debated and amendments may even be added if the majority favors the bill. It is thenthat both houses must have a vote or series of votes of approval and the changes made by the committee. If passes, the bill is passed to the other chamber for approval as well, and if approved, the bill is sent to the President for approval or veto. I agree with how lengthy and difficult this process is because I believe it should indeed be difficult to achieve a bill proposal so there are fewer mistakes in law making. I don’t think we would necessarily want this process to be easier because then more billswould be passed and more restrictions and or unnecessary laws may have potential to be created. Overall, I have strong faith in this process. I say this because there are so many occasions in which different people from different sides of the spectrum are able to voice their opinions. This is when party polarization can also come in handy because one large group of people who have similar interests, or political parties are then split into smaller groups that may allow even more opinions to be voiced. Smaller groups then can make more precise collective action agreements and may even have better


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