Bill Review

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Choose 3 bills from the 114th or 115th Congress. For each bill:

Prepare a summary in your own words of the bill (1 paragraph) and what it would accomplish.
Indicate how you would vote on this bill if you were in Congress and why you would vote that way.
Indicate which constitutional power of Congress allows this law to be made.
Create a diagram or flow chart to show the steps the bill took in working its way through Congress.

Follow this link to access bills in Congress:
https://www.congress.gov

Please choose bills that have at least 3 actions listed in its history and that make a law or policy (in other words, not a post office naming bill or resolution recognizing excellence in athletics). At least one bill should have been passed into law.

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