Why is Federal Legislation so Difficult to Pass?
is extremely difficult to achieve. The President used to have the ability to invoke a line item veto, which meant he would have the ability to veto certain portions of a bill (such as the undesirable or unrelated amendments to a bill) instead of the entire bill. The President does not have this ability any longer, so if there is any portion of the bill that the President does not agree with, he has to decide which is the lesser of two evils: pass a bill with the additional amendments so that the purpose of the original bill can be fulfilled, or veto the bill altogether and send it back to Congress. The process to pass legislation is long and arduous. Adding the differing opinions of the hundreds of members of Congress would be enough to make the law making process difficult. It is in time such as these that we have to trust that our Senators and Representatives are acting in our best interests. Sources: Cummings, Jr., Milton C. and David Wise. Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction
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