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| It's probably really hard to get a bill introduced then. You have to have connections and stuff. | |
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| Well, bills are introduced when they are placed in the hopper- a special box on the side of the clerk's desk. Only representatives can introduce bills to the U.S. House of Representatives. | |
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| Really? They just drop it in a box? How do you even know it's not just getting thrown away? | |
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| The bill clerk assigns it a number. Then, a reading clerk then reads the bill to all the Representatives and the speaker of the House sends the bill to one of the House standing committee. | |
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| Then the committe votes on whether or not the bill be sent to the House floor. And it's sometimes examined in more depth by experts in the subcommittee, right? | |
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| That's right! Then, once the bill is reported, it is debated by the U.S. House of Representatives. While it's debated, Representatives make changes and then the bill is ready to be voted on. | |
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