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Thousands of bills are introduced in both of the chambers of the United States Congress each new term. It is a lot easier to kill a bill than to get it passed. Around 90% of them are killed one way or another in fact. This is because there are so many different opportunities for it to happen. All of the opportunities fall under three categories, which are: amending, pigeonholing, and defeating. If a bill is considered by a house committee or subcommittee to be unwise or unnecessary, they can pigeonhole it. Pigeonholing refers to the killing of a bill by a Congressional committee when it refuses to vote on whether the bill goes for consideration to the House of Representatives or the Senate. The committee chairman has