WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR)—In order for a bill to become a law, it must be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the president. All bills start as ideas. These ideas may ...

Week two has come to an end. We are settling in and getting down to work. The following is a quick rundown of the process a bill must go through during the session. Any legislator can have a bill ...

The chief responsibility of the Montana Legislature is to pass laws. Laws govern our daily lives in a million waysó-from who has a license to cut our hair or how fast we can drive, to where our ...

When a bill is not seconded, it is withdrawn. It is during the second reading that Members of Parliament debate on how the enactment of the law would affect the citizens. After the debate ...