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passed only with major changes from his own party
alot During last year's (2008) scandal over the Democrats using the practice of passing bills which did nothing more than honor someone or something to slip past Republicans some spending and regulatory bills without the benefit of or opportunity for debate, we learned more than 1100 bills are passed in this way per year. This is what brought my attention to the question. How many bills of all kinds are passed by a normal annual Congress.
The first six U.S. Presidents vetoed a total of ten bills. Seven of them were vetoed by James Madison.
The Civil Rights Movement was a movement by the people, not a law to be passed by congress. A result of the Civil Rights Movement was the consideration of many bills passed by congress into law. Among them were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
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President Benjamin Harrison was known for his "Billion Dollar Congress."
Write bills, discuss bills, pass or reject laws. Congress has many other roles, too.
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