How Laws are Made

How Laws are Made

By Daniel Domenighini

Open Ended

What is the difference between a bill and a law?

Multiple Choice

Out of all the bills that get introduced, how many become laws?

• Almost all of them

• A lot of them

• About half of them

• Very few of them

Multiple Choice

If somebody in Congress wants to make a new law, what's the first thing they have to do?

• Call their mom and ask permission

• Write a bill and introduce it

• Make sure it's ok with their party

Multiple Choice

What is a committee?

• A security force

• A person in charge of making commitments

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose

Multiple Choice

Why are Congressional hearings held?

• For people in Congress to listen to each other

• For people in Congress to hear testimony

• For the public to hear Congress

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to "markup" a document?

• Make changes to the text

• Send it up to the next level

• Hand it off to Mark the document guy

Multiple Choice

Who decides how each bill on the House floor will be dealt with?

• The Armed Forces Committee

• The Labor Committee

• The Education Committee

• The Rules Committee

Multiple Choice

What is a Fillibuster?

• Two-for-one special at Dave and Buster's

• When a Senator talks as long as they can to delay a vote on a bill

• Amendment to a bill that puts the bill past the maximum length

Multiple Select

How can a filibuster be ended? (pick all that apply)

• The person doing the filibuster stops talking

• Happy hour starts at Dave and Buster's

• The leader of the Senate calls for the end of the filibuster

• Three-fifths of the Senate votes for a time limit

Open Ended

What does the conference committee do?

Multiple Choice

What happens when the President vetoes a bill?

• It dies

• It goes back to Congress

• The Vice President signs it

• The States approve it

Multiple Choice

How can the President's veto be overridden?

• Prior to the veto, Congress calls criss-cross-no-veto

• A two-thirds vote of Congress

• Supreme Court intervention

• The Vice President double-signs

Multiple Choice

What happens when the President signs a bill?

• They all meet up at Dave and Buster's for happy hour

• Fireworks

• The bill becomes a law

• The bill is sent to the vice president