Questions tagged [legislative-process]
Questions about the processes to create laws in different jurisdictions.
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What's the meaning of "the House has concurred in the Senate amendment to H.R. 815 with an amendment" (in H.Res. 1160)?
It's unclear to me what's the exact meaning of this wording from H.Res. 1160
Upon transmission to the Senate of a message that the House has concurred in the Senate amendment to H.R. 815 with an ...
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Constitutionality of house of Congress passing separate bills and then combining them without vote on full bill
On April 20, 2024, the US House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific, and miscellaneous other matters, which it plans to send to the Senate as one bill. ...
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U.S. Speaker Johnson says the house will take up Ukrainian aid in next few weeks
The House is out of session, and holding a Republican strategy, team building retreat at the Green Briar Hotel in West Virginia. Yesterday Speaker Johnson announced at the retreat that the house would ...
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Lords powers to stop a Bill - Rwanda
The Rwanda Bill is being debated in The House of Lords and Jenny Jones' speech makes clear that The Lords could stop the bill if Labour were prepared to, but doesn't make explicit, as everyone she is ...
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Should citizens of a federal republic be frustrated with complicated foreign aid package deals like the recent US Foreign Aid bill? [closed]
In the U.S., Congress sometimes passes complicated package deals like the recent US Foreign Aid bill. There’s some stuff in there I cannot imagine getting through without being packaged up like this ...
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How can speaker Mike Johnson prevent a vote in the House on the Ukraine aid bill?
In The Good Republicans’ Last Stand (The Atlantic, 2024-02-12), discussing bills for aid to Ukraine, David Frum writes
...17 Republican senators joined Democrats to speed assistance to Ukraine, ...
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Have Democrats or Republicans held up aid to Israel before, in the hope of getting a broader deal on other legislation?
Biden has threatened to veto a bill that would provide Israel-only aid, because that would scupper Democrats' attempts at getting a broader deal, including more funding for Ukraine etc. (Predictably, ...
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Is there any example of anonymous voting within a congress or senate in the US or another modern country? [duplicate]
I was just thinking how general elections are designed to give citizens anonymity yet votes in congress and the senate appear to be the opposite, they are required to be public.
Has it ever occurred ...
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By what margin did the House agree to the Senate amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014?
On Wikipedia, the "legislative history" box simply lists empty brackets for this House vote. The congressional history itself jumps straight from the Senate passing the amendment to the ...
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Are there any examples of elected bodies where representatives with equal titles have actually different "weight" to their votes?
A common theme in electoral reform is adjusting the way representatives are selected using the results of an election: multi-member districts, ranked-choice-voting, party-proportional representation, ...
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How Does Military Budgeting Work? The 1969 Mansfield Amendment
I'm personally curious as to the impact of Senator Mike Mansfield's (D) amendment to the fiscal year 1970 Military Authorization Act (Public Law 91-121, Section 203) on science research and funding ...
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In the American Congress, how does a motion come forward to be voted on without the support of the Speaker or Senate majority leader)?
At least in the Senate it´s easier given the majority leader is not the chair, that would be the president pro tempore or the vice president. But in general, how does this happen if push comes to ...
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What's the highest number of amendments submitted for a law proposal in France, since 1958?
According to the French press, back on Feb 2
The members of the Social Affairs commission had been meeting since Monday morning to examine the government’s proposed pension reform and the 7,000 ...
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Who usually writes laws for legislators?
I can't imagine elected representatives come in with complete knowledge of how to write laws in legalistic language. The point of democracy is that people from all walks of life - most of whom are not ...
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Who limits what sensitive/secret information is shared with the US House Armed Services Committee? Can they get whatever they want for "oversight"?
Background; elected officials considered "vetted" by election and receive no formal background check before receiving sensitive/secret information
Politico's January 5, 2023 Speaker debacle ...
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