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It is a proposed law that is represented to the House or Senate for consideration.

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Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito. Back row: Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Before a bill becomes a law it first has to be drafted. Members of Congress, the Executive Branch, and even outside groups can draft or write up how & what they want to say in the bill.

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1. STEP 1: The Creation of a Bill. Members of the House or Senate draft, sponsor and introduce bills for consideration by Congress. ...

2. STEP 2: Committee Action. ...

3. STEP 3: Floor Action. ...

4. STEP 4: Vote. ...

5. STEP 5: Conference Committees. ...

6. STEP 6: Presidential Action. ...

7. STEP 7: The Creation of a Law.

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Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 102 Associate Justices in the Court’s history.

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With all of the dysfunction in Congress as of late, it should come as no surprise to that out of the 5,140 bills and resolutions before Congress, only 5% will ever be signed into law. But the sheer extent of inaction in today's Congress is worth noting. When the 112th Congress came to a close last year, it was deemed the least productive on record, having passed just 561 out of the 6,845 bills introduced, well below the running average of 758 bills passed each session. The 113th Congress is well on its way to beating that record as only 15 bills have passed in the first six months of session; the 112th had signed 23 in that time.
Aurelian Braun

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Congress is not doing anything, they should be working.

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In 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland was one of the first and most important supreme court case on federal power.

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The Functions of Congress

Congress has five main functions: lawmaking, representing the people, performing oversight, helping constituents, and educating the public.

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compensation is a salary and a non salary payment that is given to employees

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The Espionage Act of 1917 and the related Sedition Act of 1918 were passed shortly after the United WStates’ entry into World War I. The Espionage Act was created as a compromise between the US, with its relatively tolerant opinion on freedom of speech, and Great Britain, which had passed a massive ban on speech pertaining to national secrets a few years earlier. In short, the act made it a crime for a person to send information that would compromise the country’s war effort or aid its enemies.

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congressional oversight refers to the power of the united states congress to monitor and if change and change the action of the executive branch including the main federal agency. the primary goals of congressional oversight is to prevent waste fraud and abuse and to protect civil liberties and individual rights by insuring the executive branch complies with the law and the constitution.

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