POLS 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unanimous Consent, United States House Committee On Rules, Pocket Veto
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The constitution designates congress as the national lawmaking body. To get this law passed, you and your friends could march on congress and demand action. The result would be your removal by congressional security forces. A bill becomes a law through a prescribed series of steps. Referral: once introduced, a bill is assigned to the appropriate committee, the committee chairman sends it to a subcommittee, the house and senate handle referrals differently. In the house, the speaker refers bills to committees. Those who support or oppose a bill may testify. Subcommittee chairmen usually make sure that debate at hearings is fair but limited: markup. Once hearings are completed, the subcommittee alters and fleshes out the details of a bill. During markup, the details of your scholarship bill which students wuld be eligible, which colleges would be eligible, and how the scholarship money would be raised would be hammered out.
