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What is one big difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate in the legislative process?
  1. There are subcommittees in the Senate, but not in the House.
  2. The House allows filibusters, but the Senate does not.
  3. A bill must be voted on it its final form in the Senate, but not the House.
  4. A bill must go through a Rules Committee in the House, but not the Senate.
  5. The Senate never actually votes on bills-they just issue reports.
Explanation
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.)
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