1. Warm Up Who is the leader of the senate?
Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
Opinion: Recently an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent was shot and killed outside of Mexico City by Mexican drug cartel. This has raised concern about the U.S. Borders and their safety. What is your opinion, do you think we should change the border policy? Explain.
President of the Senate: V.P. Joseph Biden
Speaker of the House: John Boehner

2. Learning Goal: Students will learn about bills in Congress
Congress at Work
Standard 12.4
Learning Goal: Students will learn about bills in Congress

3. Bills & Resolutions Formal Bills are the most common
Resolutions: are not enforced as law
Joint: used to correct errors or appropriate $$$
Concurrent: both houses pass when no law is needed

4. Riders
: are attached to a bill but have nothing to with the bill’s topic

5. Committee Action Killing a bill
Pigeonholing: when a committee ignores a bill
Majority vote

6. Committee Hearings The committees are the experts on the bill’s topic
Decide if the bill moves ahead or not, change the bill or kill the bill
Next the bill is debated and voted on then sent to the president