Amendments
And now, another Fact of Congress
What if they had a rule at your school that was mostly good, but was missing something that would make it even better? Wouldn’t you like to change or amend it?
Well, Amendments are an important part of what happens in Congress.
You already know that a lot of the work of Congress takes place in committees. A member proposes a Bill that gets sent to a committee for hearings.
If the committee wants to, they can vote to add amendments to the Bill that can change the original language in often very important ways.
If passed out of Committee, the Bill, with the new amendment, goes to the floor of Congress for action.
The full House or Senate then debates this revised bill, and then often considers additional amendments – and then sometimes even amendments to amendments!
It’s all part of the process of trying to get a bill just right before it’s passed and signed into law.
And that’s another Fact of Congress
What if they had a rule at your school that was mostly good, but was missing something that would make it even better? Wouldn’t you like to change or amend it?
Well, Amendments are an important part of what happens in Congress.
You already know that a lot of the work of Congress takes place in committees. A member proposes a Bill that gets sent to a committee for hearings.
If the committee wants to, they can vote to add amendments to the Bill that can change the original language in often very important ways.
If passed out of Committee, the Bill, with the new amendment, goes to the floor of Congress for action.
The full House or Senate then debates this revised bill, and then often considers additional amendments – and then sometimes even amendments to amendments!
It’s all part of the process of trying to get a bill just right before it’s passed and signed into law.
And that’s another Fact of Congress