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Warped Washington.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Warped Washington.(writing a bill)(President's page)

Article Excerpt
There's a new way of doing business in Washington. It used to be that an elected lawmaker would have an idea, write it into a bill, and introduce it in either the Senate or the House of Representatives. The bill would then go to committee, where it would be studied, discussed, perhaps changed, and then either approved or killed.

If the bill survived, the next step was, of course, debate about the idea on the floor of the whole body, during business hours and in full view of the public. The process was memorialized by Schoolhouse Rock in the song "I'm Just a Bill."

That's the old paradigm. We live in a new age now. Both houses of...

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