Federal law

A Law passed by the U.S. Government, or the Federal government is a law supreme over state laws or municipal mandates. A Feredal law was once a bill in the House of Representatives. A bill goes through commitee, where they they refined exactly how the law should be, than it went to the house rules commitee where they set up perameters for debate on the House floor. Once there, it is debated (sliced and chopped and diced and cropped), and eventually they vote. It goes up to the Senate where they change the bill as much as they want without time restrictions. Sometimes they try to kill the bill with a filibuster, meanining a guy talks about nothing for a couple if eternities and then they vote when every one has left or fallen asleep in their chair. Cloture is when they stop talking and finally vote on the bill. It takes 16 sentors to propose cloture, and then they vote about clouture: it takes 60 senators' votes to achieve cloture. After that each senator can still speak on the bill for another hour (potetial 100 hours). Then the Senate votes on the bill. If it passes, its usually different than when it went through the House, so the bill is sent to a conference commitee.