How a Bill Becomes a Law
The Hopper
The Committees
The Full House and Senate
• filibuster• cloture
The longest speech in the history of the Senate was made by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Thurmond, a Democrat who later became a Republican, spoke for twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes during a filibuster against passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
The President
• Veto• Override• Pocket veto