Thursday, January 6, 2011

1. First, someone drafts an idea they have for a law and puts it into legal form. It is then assigned a number and assigned to a commitee in either the House or the Senate. The commitee examines and revizes it and sends it to the floor. The bill is then debated and voted on. If it recieves a mojority vote, it is sent to the other body where it goes through the same process. If it recieves mojority vote here, it is then sent to the govenor. If there is less then a majority vote at anytime, the process stops or the bill is sent back to the commitee for more revisions. If the govenor vetoes, it can go back through both bodies. The bill will pass if both bodies have a 2/3s vote to pass the bill.

2. A committee is a small group of people in congress who are all assigned the same bill. They work together to edit bills and prepare them for reading and voting.

3. It's really cool that legislation is being posted and we have the opportunity to give our opinions on what the representatives in the house are doing. It will give the representatives a chance to view what the people want before they make some decisions and hopefully take that into account. Hopefully Noem stands up to her responsiblities. She seems to be doing pretty good so far.

4. Sry, i wasn't sure what story you wanted us to look at on this site. ?

5. Personally, I think that those people who want pay more then they're already paying in taxes are crazy. However, if they want to pay more, why should anyone stop them? The US is obviously severely in debt so anything helps. If taxpayers want to pay back the debt and using credit cards makes it easier for them to do so, then so be it. Let them pay off debt that isn't theirs.

6. New leadership in the white house could be really good. They have goals of becoming more alligned for split government and to get new voices heard. The white house had seemed to be in kind of a rut. The efffort of getting Obama re-elected is taking alot of people and energy. Hopefully this is just the change needed to get stuff going.