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Omnibus Bills
Normal Bill Passing Process
In the United States, several processes need to take place before a bill is passed into law. First, a member of House of Senate or House of Representatives needs to introduce a bill. After the introduction of the bill, the bill will be referred to a committee for further hearing and the committee will carefully study the bill. If the bill is very important, the committee may hold a public hearing on the bill and decide to pass the bill or reject it and no action will be taking on it. If the committee accepts the bill, the committee will read the bill in the open session of the House of Representative where the bill is passed to the Rules Committee. However, the Rules of Committee can either place the bill on the second reading for a debate or take no action on the bill. However, the bill is subject to debate at the second reading before the entire body, and the amendment is carried out. Then,...
(Oleszek,2007).
After being accepted in the first house, the bill goes through the same procedure at the second house. The upper house could make a necessary amendment, and when both houses accept the bill, the president signs the bill into law. On the other hand, the president may veto the bill and refuse to pass the bill into law. However, the bill may become law without a President's signature if the two-third majority of both houses pass a vote to override the president's decision. However, the strategy for passing omnibus bill into law is different from a normal law making process.
Strategy for passing an Omnibus Bill
The strategy behind passing an omnibus bill into law is to force members of congress to pass a vote for things that they might not want to vote individually. In some cases, some member of the congress might want a bill to become law while some group in the congress might disagree with the bill. For example, if the United States wants to fund a war and the other side in the congress can be forced to…
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Goertz, J.M.M.(2012). The Omnibus or Not: The Single-Issue Bills or Package Bills in a Legislative Bargaining Game. University of Guelph, Department of Economics.
Morelli, M. (2007). Demand commitment and legislative bargaining: A response. The American Political Science Review. 101(4), 851.
Oleszek, W.J. (2007). Congressional Procedures and thee Policy Process. CQ
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