Do any of you guys out there know of the actual/legal process of how legislature coming from the house to senate works? But, we know the obvious ones, but what about what Maxine Waters wants to do? She wants to mess with banks/wall street, just like the Dems did in 2007 and purposely caused the Pelosi/Ried Recession of 2007/08.
I did hear on Fox/maybe one legal expert that whatever Maxine cooks up, it would still need to pass the Senate.
So tell me/us. Does anything Maxine wants to do, gone down the toilet already?
"I did hear on Fox..." A sure sign of a parroting rube.
The way legislation works is that a sponsor in the House draws up a bill, and a sponsor in the Senate draws up a similar bill. The bills are then assigned to committee.
The committee can then just kill it right there on the spot. If the sponsor was a Democrat, say, and the Republicans hold the majority, that means the chair of the committee will be a Republican and he can kill it.
Or the committee can hold hearings and have debates and then vote on the bill. If the bill passes the committee, it then goes to the floor for a full House/Senate vote. Unless the Speaker/Majority Leader is of the opposition party, then he can just kill it right then and there and never pass it to the floor for a vote.
If the House passes a bill, but the Senate does not, the bill dies. And vice versa.
If the bill passes in both houses, then it has to go through conference. If there are differences between the bill passed in the House and the bill passed in the Senate, a conference committee made up of members of both houses is formed to hammer out the differences.
Then the final version is sent back to both houses for an up or down vote.
Should the bill make it all the way through this sausage making process, it then goes to the President. The President either signs it or vetoes it. If it is vetoed, it can go back to the Congress which can then vote to override the President's veto by two-thirds, which is an extreme rarity. If the President signs the bill, it becomes law.
In most cases, a bill is just a framework which directs the creation of a department or agency or regulations. If it becomes law, then it is up to the Executive branch to write the actual regulations which will carry out the law.