Civics_Ch4_bill-questions

**Questions you should be able to answer when you’re complete: **

 * Who can officially propose a bill? A representative or a senator.


 * After a bill is proposed, it goes to a committee (smaller group).


 * Once it gets out of this small group, it goes to the whole chamber where it is debated and voted on.


 * Once it passes one chamber, where does it go next? The other chamber


 * What happens in this chamber? Some process as the first chamber


 * If the other chamber passes a version that’s different than the first chamber, the two must do what? The House and Senate Conference Committee develops a compromise version of the bill to pass


 * After the bill passes both chambers, where does it go? President


 * What has to happen for the bill to become a law? President has to sign it


 * What are the other possibilities? The bill can be vetoed, or rejected. If this happens, the bill can be overidden with a 2/3 vote in the whole Congress. If the president does nothing and Congress adjourns it dies by pocket veto.


 * What is the job of a lobbyist? Influence members of Congress to pass a law that the interest group wants.


 * How do interest groups have power? The use their money to hire lobbyists to convince Congress to pass certain laws.

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