POL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pocket Veto, United States Code, Indirect Election

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 201
• Professor: Sylvia Thompson

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Any bill that will become a law must be passed in both chambers. If time is up they must decide if the bill passes or not. Bill will fail in committee: not a good idea, good idea but can"t afford it. What is the party of the person that introduced it (better chance of passing if republican), ideology democrat who introduced the bill has different views than the majority of people on committee (disagree with bill) At hearing, individual who comes up who give expert testimony (trying to convince good or bad). Make a report and send it back to standing committee and tell them why it is good or bad: standing committee will usually take sub committee"s advice. Talk about bill given back to them and study and modify it. Vote by majority rule: goes to senate majority leader. Majority leader asks senate if they want to debate the bill.