Warm Up Who is the leader of the senate? Who is the leader of the House of Representatives? Opinion: Recently an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent was shot and killed outside of Mexico City by Mexican drug cartel. This has raised concern about the U.S. Borders and their safety. What is your opinion, do you think we should change the border policy? Explain. President of the Senate: V.P. Joseph Biden Speaker of the House: John Boehner

Learning Goal: Students will learn about bills in Congress Congress at Work Standard 12.4 Learning Goal: Students will learn about bills in Congress

Bills & Resolutions Formal Bills are the most common Resolutions: are not enforced as law Joint: used to correct errors or appropriate $$$ Concurrent: both houses pass when no law is needed

Riders : are attached to a bill but have nothing to with the bill’s topic

Committee Action Killing a bill Pigeonholing: when a committee ignores a bill Majority vote

Committee Hearings The committees are the experts on the bill’s topic Decide if the bill moves ahead or not, change the bill or kill the bill Next the bill is debated and voted on then sent to the president