There are several steps in the lawmaking process. The first step in the process is when the bill is drafted. When people feel that a law is needed, they will try to get representatives of that state to submit it to the national government. This leads to the next step: the law is introduced to the House of Representatives or Senate. From here the bill will be sent to a committee. In this committee they will choose to kill it, which is to say no, or approve it. If approved, the bill will go to the Rules Committee, they will set the date for the bill to be discussed and debated. On the decided date, the house of Congress that the bill started in will debate on whether to keep the bill or not. Also, at this meeting they may make changes to the
