Breakdown Of The Legislative Process

The vote on the bill was 53-46, 7 votes short of the 60 votes required to proceed and for debate to open on the bill. The votes fell mostly along party lines.

Two different versions of the Affordable Care Act were initially written and proposed in Congress: one in the House, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, and one in the Senate, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Ray and Norbeck). Since the House only needs a simple majority to pass a bill, the Democratic majority was able to pass a more extensive bill. In the Senate, however, the Democrats only had 58 votes, which would not be enough to end a Republican filibuster. In order to get 60 votes, the Democrats in support of the bill had to convince conservative Democrat Bill Nelson (NE) and independent Joe Lieberman

Senate has been slower to change, but several African Americans and Hispanics hold influential positions

“Along the way, we have heard certain state lawmakers allude to the likely electoral impact of these kinds of laws,” Rogowski said. “It’s difficult to try to imagine what other, or in what other kinds of ways, they expect these laws to have electoral impacts.”

As Chief Legislator, Governors can participate in the lawmaking process. They have the power to veto …. There are four phases of the lawmaking process, worked through by the legislature, “agenda setting, policy formulation, legitimation, and evaluation,” two of which the governor has influence on. The easiest way to influence the legislative process is through the agenda setting stage. The Governor’s power in this process comes from the powers granted in the Constitution, the power to veto, and the State of the State address, as well as the fact that the Governor represents the entire State, whereas the members of the legislature represent districts within the State. Next is the policy formulation phase, which can be influenced indirectly.

To me, it seems currently in the United States the legislative branch has the most power. The legislative branch creates laws for the country. These laws, for the most part, affect everyone in the United States. One reason I feel the legislative branch has the most power is that the laws they create are sent to the president; however, if the president "vetoes" the law, the legislative branch can overrule the president with a two-thirds vote. In the constitution, it states the legislative branch is the only branch that can declare war on another country.

Even though they are connected, the House and Senate both play two very important and different roles in government. One difference that may make it likely that legislation may pass in one chamber but not the other is that the senate might filibuster rules. With this, members who do not

The biggest allies to the climate change are political appointees, such as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and interest group, such as environmentalists, academic professionals, and clean energy industires. While EPA has influence over the decision from the executive branch, most of the allies do not have a direct influence over agenda setting or alternative specification. However, these groups have closer connection to the general public within states and local communities. The problem is that while these interest groups share similar opinions about the need to address the climate change issue, they have different alternative policies that they advocate. The first step is to push up the climate change higher on the agenda, and working together is essential to achieve this goal. The Senator Smith should contact interest groups in each state to find an agreement among different interest group and to create a coalition.

Senator Royce has written 178 bills so far but there are two recent bills that took my attention. One of them was related to certain assessments for children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. The act suggest that a kid after the 45th day in the program has to first get a screening for trauma, then interview with people who know about child’s needs, and finally the department will give the assessment content. In my opinion I believe this a good bill because it takes care of the kids future and their mentality. This act will take effect on September 1, 2015 The other bill Senator Royce West wrote that got my attention was the bill suggesting compensation to people who were wrongly

Other than the fact that they have very little time to look over the legislation. The majority party is probably the biggest problem will bills. If the majority party doesn’t like it the chances of it making it passed this stage are very little to slim. There are a couple ways to get the bill through this stage anyway though in the house. The first would be by using what is called a discharge. The only way for this to work though is to get a petition signed by most of the membership. This will force the bill to the floor for action and debate. Discharges rarely ever happen though, as most of the members of the committees have a mutual respect for the other committees. The Senate does not use discharges. The only other way to get a bill passed after it has been killed at this stage would be to reintroduce it. Then the bill would have to go back through the committees and subcommittees to be passed as law.

This morning, the House Insurance Committee voted HB 5013 out to the committee of the whole; where the rest of the House of Representatives will decide whether or not to send it over to the Senate. Stay tuned for

Today, there is so much tragedy surrounding our country. It seems as if there is a never-ending stream of bad news and a desperate need for reform all around, ranging from gun control to health care. Luckily, there are actions that even common citizens can take to make a change, one of them is called the legislative process - which is how our laws become enacted. The U.S. legislative process can often times be unsuccessful and extensive, it takes many stages through Congress for a law to even reach the President, however to simply imagine a law that could positively impact our society is rewarding in itself.

Both houses, the House of Representatives and senate, must unanimously agree that a particular bill is in the benefit of their constituents in order for the bill to pass.

Bill C-237 was introduced by the New Democratic Party as a private member’s bill, which does not often translate into law (openparliament.ca). Defeated at the Second Reading by the house on October 19th, 2016

However, on September 18, 2014, Senator Kristen Gillibrand introduced a bill named S. 2902, which is the almost identical to H.R. 1321. However, S. 2902, also known as Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2014, was only referred to a committee with no further action. On March 6, 2015, H.R. 1321 was sent to the Subcommittee on Health, which is part of the Energy and Commerce Committee. A hearing was scheduled within the Subcommittee on Health on May 1 of that same year and did not leave the Energy and Commerce Committee until November. On December 7, the bill was brought to the floor in House of Representatives and debated on for ten minutes, the proposed bill was debated on for ten minutes. Even though the H.R. 1321 debate was scheduled for forty minutes, when the bill was presented, there was no objection. On December 8, the Senate received this bill and read over twice. Ten days later, Senator Mitch McConnell (Majority Whip Leader) agreed on the proposed bill with unanimous consent, which was a bipartisan agreement. On December twenty-second, President Obama was presented with H.R. 1321 in the House of Representatives and signed the bill on December 28, 2015. The bill was became law that same day and was renamed Public Law 114-114 (“Library of Congress” All