What is unique about appropriations bills as opposed to other bills?
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Appropriations Bills provide funding to the U.S. government.
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There isn't one. A Senator is a Congressman, but Senator is a more specific term than Congressman, which refers to both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Congress is the legislature (that is, lawmaking body) of the U.S. Federal Government.  Congress is divided into two chambers, the House of Representatives (lower chamber) and the Senate (upper chamber).  They are roughly equal in power, but there are differences in both the composition and functions of each body.\n\nFirst, the similarities.  All bills must pass both chambers in order to become law.  Both chambers have oversight responsibility over Federal agencies (usually exercised in committees).  Legislation can originate in either chamber, except for spending bills, which must originate in the House.  It just takes a simple majority for a bill to pass each chamber.\n\nFor more information on the legislative process, see:\n\nhttp://www.vote-smart.org/resource_govt101_02.php\n\nNow, the contrasts.  First, the differences in composition.  \n\nThe House has 435 members elected from single member districts all of roughly equal population.  The districts are drawn up by state legislatures after each decennial census determines how many seats each state gets.  All members must stand for election every 2 years.  The Senate has 100 members, exactly 2 from each state, regardless of the state's population.  Senators serve for 6 years, but their terms are staggered so about one third are up for election every two years.  \n\nAs mentioned above, all spending bills must originate in the House.  Also, the House is the chamber which has impeachment powers, which it exercises by a simple majority vote. (An impeachment is akin to an indictment).  Once impeached the official is tried before the Senate, which can remove him or her if 2/3rds of the Senate finds him or her guilty.\n\nBut the Senate has several other functions not shared with the House.  First, all presidential appointments (cabinet secretaries, judges, ambassadors, high ranking military officials, etc, etc) must be approved by (a simple majority in) the Senate.  Treaties must be approved by 2/3rds of the Senate.\n\nThat is it in a nutshell.  For more info, see Article I of the U.S. Constitution, especially sections 1 and 2 [1] and also the other links below will prove very helpful to you. (And be sure to check out the info above on how a bill becomes law)
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I never heard of the Oprah bill, but any bill has to go through the same steps!\nGo to the US gov. website and read about it the process.\nIt's quite informative.\n\n:)
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They are different for each state.  Be more specific.
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The Speaker of the House (what you're calling house majority leader) has more power because that's the way our Founding Fathers set it up.  Senators are not necessarily more powerful than House members.  Newly-elected Senators are much less powerful than House committee chairpersons.  The Committee chairmen of Appropriations, Rules and Ways and Means are extremely powerful.  Congressmen would much rather have these jobs than Senate Majority Leader.  With Appropriations and Ways and Means you're controlling the purse of the country and with Rules, you're controlling the agenda.
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The basic method...\nWrite a bill and get some co-sponsors.\nThe bill gets directed to the appropriate Congressional committee for discussion and review.  It may be rejected for modification, rejected outright or approved.  If approved, it is then put on the calendar for approval by the entire house of Congress.\nIf the bill requires both houses to approve, the same will be done in both houses.  During the approval process, it may be modified/amended outright, sent back to committee for further review, rejected completely or approved.\nOnce approved it goes to the President.  If both houses approve the bill, however in slightly different ways, there is a joint committee that compromises the bill to something both houses agree with before sending it to the President.\nOnce the President gets it, he can either sign it or veto it.  If vetoed, it needs 2/3 of Congress to override.\n\nThe real way is a lot dirtier.  It involves trading of favors (you vote for my bill, I'll vote for yours), attempts to tack on riders and amendments (adding money for a pork project to an unrelated bill) and a lot of petty partisan politics.
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True but only partially.  American bills are a composition of both cloth fibers and paper. This not only helps them to last longer but also deters against counterfieting. If you look closely at a bill you can see the little fibers that sometimes even have their own color.
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both  Bills  think  they\nre  right?
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When a possible reform/new area of law is drafted for voting in Parliament, it goes through it as a Bill. A Bill remains a Bill or proposed law until it has been passed through Parliament, AND given assent by the Head of State (i.e. President). Then it becomes a legislation, a law, or a statute (whichever name you prefer).
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It is spending that is tied ti a specific project in a specific place.  Congressmen/women use this to get "pet projects" paid for in a bill that may have nothing to do with it.  It is a way to get something for the folks back home, without having to write a complete law/spending authorization jsut for it.  An example are the "bridges to no where" that we earmarked for Alaska.  Even though they both had value and there is a true need for one, they were saw as bad government because of the "earmarks".
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I'm assuming you mean three powers that one has that the other does not.\n\n1: Article I, Section 3: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.\n\n2: Article I, Section 7: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.\n\n3: (Advise and Consent) Article II, Section 2: He (the President) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties.
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There are lots of SB770s and SB551s in the world, seeing as every state almost has a Senate and there is the US Senate, plus many around the world, and each of them starts over at one for each session, so we need a lot more information.
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The bill has not left the committe, and at this point it most likely won't. It's not possible to know why it hasn't left the committe or what different members of the committee think of the bill, since their meetings are generally not public.
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Which supplemental are you referring to?  All the other approps bills are making their way through the process now...most of them now in the Senate.
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A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver in American federal lawmaking. The U.S. Constitution requires the President to sign or veto any legislation placed on his desk within ten days (not including Sundays). If he does not, then it becomes law by default. \n\nThe one exception to this rule is if Congress adjourns before the ten days are up and the President does not sign the bill. In such a case, the bill does not become law; it is effectively, if not actually, vetoed. If the President does sign the bill, then it does become law. \n\nIgnoring legislation, or "putting a bill in one's pocket" until Congress adjourns is thus called a pocket veto. Since Congress cannot vote while in adjournment, a pocket veto cannot be overridden.
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The most signifigant power in the House is Appropriations.  They control the spending.  The power to declare war must be initiated in the House but ratified in the Senate.  The Senate has the power of the filibuster which can delay, and sometimes, defeat legislation.  All the power in the House rests in the hands of committee chairpersons and so the average Senator is much more powerful than the average Congressman.  The House has 435 members and the Senate only 100 and so a Senator has more clout and prestige.  The function of both houses is to represent different constituencies.  The House was set up for all the people, to be their voice in Washington.  The Senate was originally set up as a kind of aristocracy and Senators were originally appointed and not elected to ensure that the general rabble didn't get too high a hand.  The Senate was given the power to ratify treaties and "advise and consent" in regards to Presidential appointments.  The committee chairpersons in the House and the Speaker of the House are more powerful than the average Senator.  Sorry for rambling.