The Hill News

As anybody who ever watched "Schoolhouse Rock" in the 1970s knows (I am just a bill, I am only a bill and I am sitting here on Capitol Hill, but I hope to be a law one day, oh, yes I know that I will, but today I am still just a bill), it's awfully hard to make law in this country. 

You need to get a bill introduced in House committee, have it considered on the House floor, have it introduced to a Senate committee, pass the Senate, reconcile the two versions between the two bodies, have both versions pass both bodies again and then send it to the president for his signature. If the president doesn’t like it, the bill goes back to the Congress, where the House and Senate can override the veto with a two-thirds vote, or they can start the process over again.

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