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The House of Lords | How Bills Go through Parliament | The Prime Minister and the Cabinet | The Role of the Monarch in Britain | The Richest Woman in the World | System of Government in the United States | Reading tasks | Language focus | Vocabulary tasks | Before you read |


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A Answer these questions.

 

1 Who can initiate new legislation in the USA?

2 Where is the proposed bill first introduced?

3 Where are hearings on a particular bill held?

4 What can committee recommendations include?

5 When is the bill considered by the House of Representatives as a whole?

6 Is the bill viewed in the Senate?

7 What can the result of the debate be?

8 Under what circumstances does the bill become law? Is there only one way to it?

9 Who has the right of veto?

 

B Decide which of statements a), b) or c) in the exercise below corresponds exactly to the meaning of the text and best completes each statement.

 

1 Tax or budget bill may be proposed by

a) the President

b) the representatives

c) the senators.

 

2 After being introduced in the House, the bill undergoes hearings

a) in the Senate

b) in the White House

c) in one of the standing committees.

 

3 The bill dies if

a) the committee chooses not to consider the bill

b) the committee suggests changes in the bill

c) the committee proposes an entirely new bill.

 

4 The bill goes to the Senate for committee hearings and general debate if

a) it is passed in the House committees

b) it is given recommendations for changes

c) it is passed in the House of Representatives as a whole.

5 Once passed by the Senate as a whole and viewed by two more standing committees the bill is then

a) signed by the congressmen

b) signed by the heads of both chambers of the Congress

c) signed by the President.

6 The bill becomes law if the President

a) approves the bill and signs it

b) uses the “pocket veto” by withholding his signature within ten days of congressional adjournment

c) vetoes the bill.


C Using the following scheme speak on the process of law-making in the USA.

 
 

 

 


Before H.R. 2362 became a law, it had to make a number of stops on its journey through Congress.

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* H.R. – House of Representatives



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