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Revision as of 00:15, June 8, 2007
Legislation (a bill or joint resolution) which has passed both chambers of Congress in identical form, been signed into law by the President, or passed over his veto, thus becoming a law. Technically, this term also refers to a bill that as been passed by one house and engrossed (prepared as an official copy).[1]