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Bob Collins

How a bill really becomes a law

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This weekend's Saturday Night Live skit brought with it a nagging question: Should civics classes teach how a bill becomes a law, or how it really does -- or doesn't -- become a law?

Related: SNL skit suggests Obama’s immigration executive action is unconstitutional (The Washington Post).

The process feels a lot different from the way Schoolhouse Rock taught it in 1975: