How a Bill Becomes a Law: Crash Course Government and Politics #9

2015-03-20

[public] 1.54M views, 18.4K likes, 547 dislikes audio only

Oh my, Craig has his work cut out for him this week. The process of how a bill becomes a law can be pretty complex, fraught with potential bill-death at every corner. As if just getting through committee isn’t difficult enough, bills have to navigate a series of amendments and votes in both houses, potentially more committees, further compromise bills, and even more floor votes, just to end up on the chopping block of the President. And then in one fell swoop, the President can stop a bill in its tracks with a veto! But then again, a presidential veto isn’t necessarily a bill’s end either.

As you can see we’ve got to lot to cover, and we’ll be the first to admit this has been covered before, and extraordinarily well might we add, by the folks at School House Rock. But we’ll give it our best shot - without the singing of course. Well, not too much singing anyway.

Support is provided by Voqal: http://www.voqal.org

This episode is sponsored by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse

Chapters:

Introduction: How a Bill Becomes a Law 00:00

Bill introduction 0:49

Committee referral 1:02

Senate rules 1:35

The bill passes the other chamber 1:59

Conference committee 2:19

The President signs the law 2:39

Vetos & Pocket Vetos 2:45

Overriding a veto 3:15