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