POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Consumer Protection, Table Tennis, Environmental Policy

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How a bill (really) becomes a law: textbook model. Negative: members of congress only have negative powers. An individual member of congress can stop a bill from becoming a law. Gatekeepers: open and close a bill from coming into the congress and getting passed. Party leadership- fail to schedule the bill to go onto the floor. Committee chairs- can not hold hearings or not schedule vote on the floor. Rules committee- writing rules that are highly unfavorable to fail the bill. Unanimous consent/cloture- senate; in order to bring legislation to the floor, most bills are brought by unanimous consent. One senator can stop action on the floor (filibuster) Senate transformation: the se(cid:374)ate of the (cid:1005)95(cid:1004)"s. Kept the senate from expanding influence to rank and file members. New se(cid:374)ators did(cid:374)"t do (cid:373)u(cid:272)h legislati(cid:374)g i(cid:374) their (cid:1006)-4 years in office. Senators had to rely on committee in order to get bill on the floor.

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