Title: Why is it so difficult for a bill to become law? - Quora
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Content: Both Houses have to pass it and send it to the POTUS. That means that in order to overturn a POTUS veto two-thirds of each House have to come together and vote to do so. Either one fails that the whole overruling is crushed. Checks and balances. While simple to think up both intelligent as well as incredibly ignorant bills and get them out of committee (all of which we see plenty of in this Congressional session) the final bill sent forward the final version MUST be agreed upon by both Houses. Compromise is the term that both parties seem to fail to fully understand. If one party always wins there is no compromise, and as history has shown, American voters are a fickle group and move majorities back and forth on a semi-regular basis. Quora User
, I was born in the U.S., have a U.S. passport and I vote. Answered 2 years ago · Author has 5.9K answers and 1.3M answer views
A bill can say almost anything. A law is supposed to not just be supported by the majority of the legislature but also make sense in terms of all the other laws that exist (imagine the difficulties of have two laws that contradict each other: