government bill question. How does a bill get passed such as HR 4437?

Question

please tell me if this is possible for HR 4437.

-It was introduced in the House. (bill is assigned number HR 4437, sponsor: Sensenbrenner bill, sponsored by James Sensenbrenner, there are 35 cosponsors.
-then it goes to committee action (refered to three standing community, House standing community). then discharge occured on all of them.
-then it goes to floor action. (gets passed)
_____GOES IN SENATE
-senate introduction (S6211)
-committe action. refered to Senate standing committees (judiciary).

-(then I am stuck. then it says Cloture on the bill invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote (73-25.)The last major action was 5/26/2006 (passed senate with amendments by Yea-Nay note. 62-36)
ARE ALL OF THESE STEPS POSSIBLE?

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!I did research and feelconfused. this is a project for school.

Answer 1

There is a general response and a specific response:

GENERAL RESPONSE

Well, there's good new, bad news, and wore news.

GOOD NEWS - the slow and hard part is to get the bill out of committees.

Then, to get a vote in house.

Then to Senate.

The BAD news -- Senate referred the bill to its committees, and then it was passed on to full senate for approval.

The WORST news: All bills, not acted on during a session (acted by full senate) die. The whole process starts over. The Bankruptcy Reform bill went through this every year for almost a decade. But it was eventually passed. But the WORST news is that because the bill appears to be a "Republican" bill (Sensenbrenner is a ranking republican), it now must get through committees and passed by both bodies, which are now governed by democrats.

This is important, because, if the Democrats have the same rules as Republican Hastert (in the house), NO bill would be allowed to come to the floor unless it had a majority of the majority. Under Republicans, that meant that if ALL democrats, and just under a majority of Republicans (totaling almost 3/4 total support) supported the bill, it would STILL not be scheduled for a vote. The theory of Hastert was that the Republicans won control of congress, they get to control the agenda.

Now, I do not know what Pelosi will do, but the fact is this -- it will be MUCH harder to get democratically controlled committees take-up action on a "republican" bill, as it is not a "democrat" bill. IF it gets to the house, it must be scheduled for debate and action (among all the other actions that have been passed). AND THEN, it must do the same thing in the Senate.

I suspect there is something controversial in the bill, because the Senate refused to action, referred it to committee, and then, with the cloture vote (difficult to do), it STILL did not vote on the action (according to your information).

SPECIFIC RESPONSE

The bill is the immigration reform act. The House passed a very "strong" bill, increasing border security, increasing penalties for illegal immigrant, etc.

The Senate AMENDED the action, to allow for illegal immigrants to register as guest workers.

The next step would be a conference committee, to see if the bills passed by the two chambers can be compromised, so both will pass. The problem is, the HOUSE wants a very strong bill, the SENATE passed, essentially, a far more moderate plan supported by the President.

The Senate and the House did not even schedule a "conference committee meeting" on the two divergent bills, and the session is over, thereby effectively killing the bill. At least for now.

Answer 2

taking under consideration that i'm an Obama supporter and that i in many situations vote Dem: In yet another 3 hundred and sixty 5 days Obama's rankings isn't severe adequate for him to push an substantial law by way of, and there is an quite good probability that the Dems will lose administration of the abode and/or the Senate in 2010. So it relatively is now or on no account. That'd be ok, yet i've got not heard something appropriate to the proposed plan that leads me to have faith that it will go away us to any extent further useful off than we are with our modern broken gadget.