3.23.2009

How a bill really becomes a law

BY HERB JACKSON

Take what you learned in civics about how a bill becomes a law and just throw it out. The U.S. Senate provided a graduate-level course in real-world lawmaking last week when it took up a six-page bill to preserve Revolutionary War battlefields, deleted every word and passed the 1,248-page Omnibus Public Lands Act in its place.

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