Committee votes to send bill to floor. Amendments may also occur on the floor. If bill passes, same process must occur in other chamber. If House and Senate pass similar but differing versions of bill, conferees are selected to work out differences. After differences are worked out, bill returns to House and Senate for final vote.
Bill passes and is sent to president.
President signs bill into law. Campaign for the reelection or replacement of your legislator or president. Congress follows a two-step process in funding a program. The amount appropriated seldom equals the amount authorized. In 1993 a major rules change made the list of signers of a discharge petition public knowledge.