Praxis II: Citizenship Education Content Knowledge Exam Prep

Answer: D - One big difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate in the legislative process is that a bull must go through a Rules Committee in the House, but not in the Senate. The Rules Committee is responsible for setting the rules for debate of a bill. It exists in the House, but not in the Senate since almost every bill in the Senate is debated under the same set of rules. The Rules Committee is incredibly important because it can make it much easier or much harder to pass any bill. If the Rules Committee wants to kill a bill, for example, it could set the debate for 3 a.m., eliminate debate, and only bother to tell the opponents of the bill. (And, yes, this has happened a few times before.)