IMPORTANT QUESTION: How long does it take a Senator/Senators...

[codebuster11]

How long does it take Senators to write a bill and submit it to congress? How long does it take, lets say a 125 page bill, or a 50 page bill. If someone could please help me out quickly that would be excellent, I really need this!

[codebuster11]

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[punpirate]

2. There's no hard and fast rules...

... and a lot of the bills today are not written by legislators out of whole cloth--they're often the product of lobbyists.

Staffers do most of that work. Legislators mainly just supervise that work nowadays. That's been my experience at the state level.

[unblock]

4. pretty damn fast, if need be

when there's a great urgency, things can happen really fast.
a bill longer than you're describing can go from a non-starter to law in 24 hours.

first, keep in mind that congressional staffers are energetic, eager young people willing to work through the night.

second, realize that there's all sorts of half-baked bills, rejected bills, lobbyist wishlists, etc. lying around just waiting for some event to make them urgently relevant. when the time comes, they just slap together huge chunks from older sources and hope it all makes sense together.

then they posture for the cameras, and vote on the mess and read it later. they figure if there's a problem, they can always pass a "technical correction" at their leisure.


on the other hand, as you know, when there's no urgency, worthy legislation can take decades.