How long does it take for a bill to be become a law?

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Not time sensitive - vote sensitive. 1st it must be voted on and passed in the originating house (House or Senate). Subject to amendments, debate, etc. Once PASSED, it then goes to the other house where it becomes subject to amendment and debate - and it must passed. If the Bill is changed in the second house it must go through the process again in the second house and back & forth until the same Bill is passed by both the House and the Senate. Then it goes to conference where everybody gets another shot at it again. Once passed through all that it goes to the President for signature, veto, or pocket veto.

That's why they call it 'making sausage' and it isn't pretty. Add TV cameras and you get theatrics on top of everything else. Plus any confusion the talking heads can add to 'gin up interest'.

Gridlock - not a good thing if you want to get anything done. Usually politicians just love it - no accountability & plenty of places to point - a conservative's dream. The effective politicians working for the country/their constituents have to be adept at 'cutting' through the s%$t.

with the current Congress? Six men in a I-Hop Restaurant over a long weekend might get it done; as long as 4 work for ACORN, 1 for SEIU and the other is a Czar of something.

what ever date they put on it to be enacted