How does a bill can be killed?

Answer 1

There are three main branches of government, Judicial, Executive, and the legislative, If the bill passes the Legislative and judicial branches and is vetoed by the president, the bill will not pass, the bill must be passed by all three branches to become a law.

The answer above is terrible. The simple answer for how a bill becomes law, is that it must pass both house of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate) and be signed by the President. So, to kill a bill something must happen in that process to prevent either one house from passing it or the President to sign it.

There are seven ways I can think of to kill a bill, or to prevent the above process from happening.

1) The President vetos the bill (does not sign it) and there is not 2/3rds of both houses of Congress willing to override the veto.

2) A pocket veto - which means that the President gets it with less than ten days left in a Congressional term and does not sign or veto it, then when the term expires the bill dies automatically.

3) It fails to pass a vote in one of the houses.

4) It is not reported by committee. Bills go to committees to be reviewed after they are presented by members of Congress. If the committee does not report on the bill it does not get voted on. The committee either does not want a vote on the bill or doesn't feel the bill is important, or feels it isn't going to pass anyway. Most bills die this way (by not making it out of committee). related idea: see discharge petition

5) The House Rules Committee not granting a rule. In the House, after a committee reports on a bill it is placed on one of various calendars. The House rules committee has to decide to take it off the calendar and set rules for debating it. If they do not do this, the bill will not go to the floor for debate or be voted on.

6) Senate Majority Leader never takes it off calendar. In the Senate, the Majority leader has a similar function to the rules committee in that he chooses which bills from the calendar to debate. The senate doesn't have the debate rules that the House does (because there is less members in the Senate), so the Senate Majority leader doesn't have to set rules, but he does choose which bills to debate. Therefore, if he continuously passes up certain bills he can effectively kill them.

7) Filibuster. A filibuster is talking a bill to death. Because the Senate does not have the rules for debate that the House does, Senators can speak endlessly about a bill or about anything in general, even things unrelated to the bill. This endless talking prevents a vote on the bill. related idea: see cloture

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Answer 2

by going through the 3 houses then if its voted yes it goes to the president to sign if the president doesn't sign it.......it goes around the 3 houses again if they vote yes on it again its past as a law with or without the presidents permission

Answer 3

Lack of support for a bill is one way to kill a bill. ANother way is by a technique called filibuster. This is pointless argument for the sole purpose of delaying the bill making process and effectively... killing the bill.

Answer 4

They can vote no on it, or never let it leave committee for a floor vote.