How a Bill Becomes a Law: The HipHughes Review

In what house of Congress does a bill usually start? 

• The House of Representatives 

• The Senate

Where are bills placed in order to introduce them into the House?

• The bill needs to be handed directly to the Speaker of the House.

• The bill is given to the President who then brings it to Congress.

• In the Hopper, which is a box in the House of Representatives

• Under the Speaker of the House's pillow.

After the bill is submitted to the houses by a congressmen where does the bill go next.?

  

• The bill is sent to the appropriate committee.  

• The bill is sent to the President of the United States.  

• The Senate

• The Supreme Court

What is the Rules Committee?

• The group of people who make all the rules for the United States.

• A committee that rules.

• A committee that makes all the rulers in the country.

• The committee that says how long the House of Representatives will debate the bill.  

After the House of Representatives where does the bill go next?

• The Senate

• The Supreme Court

• Jefferson Township Middle School

• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

How does Congress override the President's veto?

• The Supreme Court rules the law unconstitutional. 

• The Speaker of the House does an interpretive dance, displaying the sadness of the House to the President, who, moved by his empathy for the plight of the congressmen and women, signs the law.   

• One member of the Senate has to beat the President in a race from the Capitol Building to the Washington Memorial and back.  

• 2/3 of both houses vote to do so. 

Who break ties in the Senate?

• Oprah

• The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

• Mr Olex

• The Vice President