1. How a Bill Becomes a Law or The Legislative Process
SSCG10 The student will describe the legislative process including the roles played by committees and leadership.

2. Warm Up
Why are committees so important to the legislative process?

3. The Steps in the process
Any citizen can come up with an idea for a bill
Bill carefully written by a member of Congress
Bill dropped in the hopper (box)
Assigned a number (ex. HR1215)
Read to the House; published in the “Congressional Record”
Bill sent to a standing committee
Bill sent to a subcommittee
Hearings held with evidence shown to accept, reject, or change the bill

4. 9. Committee members decide to recommend that the House pass the bill 10. Bill sent back to the House; placed on the calendar 11. Read to the House for the second time 12. The House votes to approve or disapprove the bill 13. Bill read for a third and final time 14. The House passed the bill 15. Bill sent to the Senate 16. Bill sent to a standing committee 17. Bill sent to a subcommittee

5. 18. Subcommittee holds hearings with evidence to accept, reject, or change the bill 19. Read bill for second time 20. The Senate votes to approve or disapprove bill; Senate passes bill 21. President signs the bill; becomes a law

6. Not all bills take this path…
On the back of the notes are some alternative paths for a bill to take…
***20. If the bill is changed in the Senate, it returns to the House
***21. If House doesn’t accept changes, create a conference committee
***22. Sent back to House and Senate for another vote
***23. President vetoes the bill
***24. The whole process has to start over again

7. Which house is the only house to start appropriation bills?
Warm Up
Which house is the only house to start appropriation bills?
What does “appropriation” mean?

8. Analysis
Now that you see the steps in the legislative process you must analyze their purpose.
In the right column of your notes, choose 5 steps
Explain why they are important
Explain what would happen if that step were to be removed
Work on this task ON YOUR OWN!

9. Work Session 1. Finish Committee webquest
2. Finish rough draft of essay

10.  “[H]istory and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns.”
1. The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the
(A) debate over the proper treatment of American Indian tribes in the trans-Appalachian West
(B) dispute over the possibility of annexing Canada from Great Britain
(C) controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France
(D) conflict with Great Britain over the treatment of American Loyalists
2. The ideas expressed in Washington’s address most strongly influenced which United States foreign policy decision in the twentieth century?
(A) The establishment of the United Nations in 1945
(B) The formation of the NATO alliance between the United States and Western Europe in 1949
(C) The refusal to join the League of Nations in 1919
(D) The oil embargo against Japan in 1941
3. Which of the following groups most strongly opposed Washington’s point of view in the address?
(A) Democratic-Republicans
(B) New England merchants
(C) Southern plantation owners
(D) Federalists
4. Most historians would argue that the recommendations of Washington’s address ceased to have a significant influence on United States foreign policy as a result of
A) westward expansion in the nineteenth century
(B) support for Cuban revolutionaries in the Spanish-American War
(C) Woodrow Wilson’s support for international democratic principles during the First World War
(D) involvement in the Second World War