Federal Bills and Resolutions |
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| Authors: | Joe Morehead |
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| Institution: | 1. State University of New York at Albany , Albany, New York, USA jhm@albany.edu |
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| Abstract: | The introduction of federal legislation, mandated by Article I, Section 7 of the United States Constitution, is in the form of bills and joint resolutions. This article reviews aspects of the lawmaking process in the context of constitutional amendments; commemorative legislation; pork-barrel measures, including logrolling; and a bill about the United coinage system. Throughout, the examples given show the difficulty of passage from bill to law, made deliberately arduous by the framers of the Constitution. |
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| Keywords: | United States Congress bills joint resolutions pork-barrel legislation logrolling congressional committees |
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