By Mike Bonner
Explains how a invoice, or proposed legislations, is created, debated, and handed.
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The chairperson introduces this “clean” bill to Congress following the standard procedure. When the clean bill, under a new legislative number, is reassigned to the committee, the committee immediately reports favorably with no changes. The legislation markup phase is the stage in the lawmaking process where most legislation is written. Bills often receive additional amendments in subsequent stages of the process, but those changes, too, must be germane to the legislation and cannot alter the overarching meaning or directive of a bill reported by committee.
If the chamber agrees to this motion, the full chamber considers the original bill under the standard legislative process, effectively bypassing committee consideration. 42 HOW A LAW IS PASSED Senators Orrin Hatch (the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Finance) and Arlen Specter (chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs) address the media during a press conference on Capitol Hill. legislation. Although the chairperson has a powerful role, other committee members debate the changes and offer further amendments during the markup meetings.
4 Consideration by Committee E very bill introduced to Congress is assigned to a committee or subcommittee and added to its legislative cal- endar. The primary purpose of a congressional committee is to determine whether or not a bill would make a good law. Based on that determination, the committee presents a recommendation to the chamber of Congress into which the bill was originally introduced. Only those bills valued by the committee chairperson are considered, however. A bill that is not considered will not be addressed at all by the committee.