How a bill really becomes a law: What Schoolhouse Rock missed

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9-12
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By Vox

“As Congressional gridlock and dysfunction worsen, Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just a Bill” seems to be missing a few key steps. So [Vox] made a sort of sequel adding them back in, above, modeled off the steps of an actual bill — the DATA Act — that made it through the gauntlet of Capitol Hill alive. See each and every step explained in all its gory detail in our feature story on the bill’s passage.”

Watch video (01:37): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH0Hl31vdF4

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Vox Media is an online publisher.