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Lawmaking 101

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Overview

This week you've gotten an idea about how a bill becomes a law. Sometimes it's a quick process, while other times bills may not make it very far or may take a long time to pass. (There are currently almost 8000 bills or resolutions now before Congress!)

This assignment is meant to get you to see a little bit more about the process of passing a law.

Directions 1. Go to the Govtrack.us website page for bills that have been made into law

(https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?status=28,29,32) for the current Congress. (Note: This is not a government website, you can also go to Congress.gov (http://beta.congress.gov/legislation) ). Click on a title of a law that interests you.

2. Create a short summary of the goal of this law in your own words. 3. Use the following following questions to summarize how your legislation got passed:

1. Who introduced the legislation? What party do they belong to? 2. When did it go to Committee? What Committees did it go to? How many Democrats or Republicans are on each Committee? (Check out the

Committees link).

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3. When did it pass the House? If the information is available, how many Democrats and Republicans voted for or against this legislation? How many didn't vote (abstained)? (Check out the House Votes on Passage link on the bill overview page.)

4. When did it pass the Senate? If the information is available, how many Democrats and Republicans voted for or against this legislation? How many didn't vote (abstained)?

5. When did the President sign it? 4. Create a chart or summary of your information. You can use this Legislative Summary Example to help you, although you

are welcome to format this information however you would like.

How to Complete Your Assignment 1. Submit your work here in the CANVAS system as a Word 97-2003, .docx or other word processing file. (Google Docs

(http://docs.google.com/) , Open Office (https://www.openoffice.org/) are also acceptable. If you are using iWorks, please convert to one of these files, as your instructor may not be able to view your document.)

Directions to Submit 1. On the right hand Menu, you will see a SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT button with a white plus sign. 2. Click on the SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT button. Then click BROWSE to look for your file on your computer. 3. When done, click the SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT button.

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