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Read—Pgs
Read from ”Types of Bills” through “Voting and Vetoes” then STOP.
Key Term Keeper (Make sure you have every key term defined.)
Key Fact Keeper (Find at least 3 key facts for each part of our lesson.)

2. Congress considers more than 10,000 bills or proposed laws each session. Bills might be private and concern individual people or places, or they may be public and apply to the entire nation.
Bills come from private citizens, from special interest groups, and from the president.

3. A bill first goes to a standing committee that may hold a hearing on it. After the hearing, the committee can approve, change, replace, ignore, or reject the bill.
If a bill is approved, changed, or replaced, it is moved on to the full House or Senate for debate. The House may make relevant amendments to the bill. The Senate may add riders that are completely unrelated to the bill.

4. If the House and Senate pass slightly different versions of a bill, a conference committee with members from each house works out the differences. The House and Senate then vote on the revised bill.
The president has the power to veto or reject bills approved by both houses. Congress can override a presidential veto with a two-thirds vote of each house.

5. End QARs Where do most new bills come from?
Where do new bill ideas go to first?
What is required for a Presidential veto to be overridden?

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QAR Answers
How old must a person be the be a Senator? How old must they be to be a Representative?
Representatives-25 and Senators-30
Who do members of Congress try to help the most by dealing with the federal government?
People from their districts or states.
Where do most new bills come from?
Private Citizens, Special Interest Groups, and the President
Where do new bill ideas go to first?
Standing Committees
What is required for a Presidential veto to be overridden?
2/3 vote from Congress