Title: It is difficult to for a bill to be passed
Headings: It is difficult to for a bill to be passed
It is difficult to for a bill to be passed
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Content: As current news show us daily, this is easier said than done. Once the House and the Senate come to agreement, the bill is passed along to the President (Cummings and Wise 400). The President has 10 days to take action on a bill, as long as Congress is still in session. If he does not take action within 10 days, the bill automatically becomes law without his signature. If he vetoes the bill, Congress can overturn the veto, but only with a 2/3 majority vote, which 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.