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What Schoolhouse Rock left out: How a bill really becomes a law

As Congressional gridlock and dysfunction worsen, only 103 of the 7,207 bills and joint resolutions introduced during this Congress have become law — fewer, by this point, than in any other Congress since at least the 1970s.

Schoolhouse Rock's "I'm Just a Bill" seems to be missing a few key steps as a result. So we made a sequel adding them back in, above, modeled off the steps of an actual bill – the DATA Act – that made it through the gauntlet of Capitol Hill alive. See each and every step explained in all its gory detail in our feature story on the bill's passage.

Credits
Words: Andrew Prokop
Direction: Joe Posner
Design & Animation: Bran Dougherty-Johnson
Music: "I'm Just a Bill" Composed by David Frishberg
Performed by Jason Yeager, Joe Posner & Shay Lynch

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