I'm just a bill...

have you been introduced? who's your sponsor? which committee have you been assigned to? who chairs the committee? are there any PACs in favor of your passage?

sitting on capital hill...im just a bill

Maybe too many line items are bogging you down.

Well, it's a long, long journey
to the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
while you're sitting in committee,
but I know you'll be a law someday
at least I hope and pray that you will
but today you are still juts a bill.

"They signed ya Linz! NOW you're a law!!!

I've actually performed School House Rocks Live!

I got to sing a verse of "Interjections!" and "Elbow Room".

Plus general chorus and lots of cute dances.

We all wore overalls and smiled a lot.

conjunction junction, what's your function?

hookin' up words and phrases and clauses.

duh.

Interplanet janet, she's a galaxy girl.

Kid: Hey, who left all this garbage on the steps of Congress?

Amendment:
I'm not garbage.
(Amendment starts singing)
I'm an amendment-to-be, Yes an amendment-to-be,
And I'm hoping that they'll ratify me.
There's a lot of flag-burners, Who have got too much freedom.
I want to make it legal for policemen to beat'em.
Cause there's limits to our liberties,
At least I hope and pray that there are,
Cause those liberal freaks go too far.

(Spoken)
Kid: But why can't we just make a law against flag-burning?

Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional. But if we changed the Constitution...

Kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!

Amendment: Now you're catching on!

(Scene flips back to Bart and Lisa)
Bart: What the hell is this?
Lisa: It's one of those campy "70's" throwbacks that appeals to Generation "X"ers.
Bart: We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little.

(Spoken)
Boy: But what if they say you're not good enough to be in the Constitution?

Amendment singing:
Then I'll destroy all opposition to me.
And I'll make Ted Kennedy pay.
If he fights back, I'll say that he's gay.

(Big Fat Guy in a brown suite comes running up and states)
Big Fat Guy:
Good news, Amendment!
They ratified 'ya.
You're in the U.S. Constitution!

Amendment: Oh, yeah! Door's open, boys!


(At this point, other "right wing" bills and amendments run up the stairs of congress, shooting guns into the air and throwing bombs around).

my favorite Schoolhouse Rocks was the "3 Is A Magic Number"...

The past, the present, and the future.
Faith and hope and charity.
The heart and the brain and the body
give you three
and that's a magic number.

a band i used to be in did that song.


uh... minus the arithmatic, most of the time.