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To: jazusamo; All

May I ask a possibly stupid question about Constitutional process. The previous House passed the Dream Act..is the present House bound by it?..Can the curent House overturn it? Or does that mean than any bill ever passed by ONE body of Congress is always viable, and could be brought up by the other body decades, heck, centuries later on?


17 posted on 05/11/2011 11:07:32 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: ken5050; All

I don’t think that’s a stupid question, I don’t know either.

I do know if anything in the Senate bill is different than the one passed in the House it has to go back for another vote.

Hopefully if it would be passed in this Senate it would have to be passed in the new House also.


20 posted on 05/11/2011 11:13:36 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: ken5050
Anything passed in the previous congress that has not become law is wiped away. They have to start all over with the seating of a new congress.
21 posted on 05/11/2011 11:16:16 AM PDT by JPG (Zawahiri, you're next.)
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