>From: jenkinda@pirates.Armstrong.EDU (Daniel Jenkins)
>Subject: I`m Just A Bill - School House Rock
>Date: 19 Nov 1996 11:23:37 -0500
I`m Just A Bill
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School House Rock
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(Kid) Whew! You sure gotta` climb a lotta` steps to get to this Capitol
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building here in Washinton! Well, I wonder who that sad little scrap
of paper is?
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I`m just a bill, yes I`m only a bill, and I`m sittin` here on Capitol Hill
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Well it`s a long, long journey to the capitol city. It`s a long, long wait
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while I`m sittin` in committee - but I know I`ll be a law someday, at least
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I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage.
(Bill) Well, I got this far. When I started I wasn`t even a bill, I was
just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed,
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so they called their local congressman and he said, `You`re right,
there ought to be a law.` Then he sat down, wrote me out, and
introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill - and I`ll remain a
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bill until they decide to make me a law.
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I`m just a bill, yes I`m only a bill, and I got as far as Capitol Hill.
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Well now, I`m stuck in committee, and I`ll sit here and wait, while a
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few key congressmen discuss and debate whether they should let me be a law.
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How I hope and pray that they will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate
about you?
(Bill) Yeah, I one of the lucky ones. Most bills never get this far. I
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hope they decide to report favorably, otherwise I may die.
(Kid) Die?
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(Bill) Yeah, die in committee. Ooh, but it looks like I`m gonna` live.
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Now I go to the House of Represenatives and they vote on me.
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(Kid) If they vote `Yes,` what happens?
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(Bill) Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.
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(Kid) Oh, no.
(Bill) Oh, yes!
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I`m just a bill, yes I`m only a bill, and if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
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well, then I`m off to the White House, where I`ll wait in a line with a lot
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of other bills for the President to sign, and if he signs me then I`ll be a law
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How I hope and pray that he will, but today I am still just a bill.
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(Kid) You mean, even if the whole Congress says you should be a law,
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the President can still say no?
(Bill) Yes. That`s called a `veto.` If the President vetoes me, I`ll
have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that
time you`re so old, you...
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(Kid) By that time it`s very unlikely that you`ll become a law. It`s not
easy to become a law, is it?
(Bill) No...
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But how I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.
(Congressman) He signed you, Bill. Now you`re a law.
(Bill) Oh yes!
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. Dan Jenkins, Jr. (jenkinda@pirates.armstrong.edu)
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Very funny, Chief O`Brien, now how about beaming down my clothes...
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