In the article "The American Dream" from the blog America the author talks about the function of our government. He has done an excellent job of showing how different parts of the government work. One such example is of how many people get frustrated with the Congress when they do "nothing." Nothing is far from what they do, approving a bill or any such matter takes tons of effort. Bills can be stalled by filibustering in the Senate. Even if the Congress finishes with it it will have to go through the House of Representatives. If it happens to make it through both of these it must go to the Executive branch. After the House and Senate have put a lot of work into getting the bill passed the President can still veto it. It is a very tedious and long process.
The author explains other ways in which bills can be stopped or slowed down in all the branches of government. Entire books could be written about process in the government. I think that this is a good, well put together, summary of how things happen. For something as complicated as our government system, it seems to be put very straightforward in this article as to how it works. Great job and I couldn't agree more.
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