4. congress is notoriously slow at acting on most
legislation in each session. consider the first steps in making a law. which
step would you eliminate to speed up the process? why?

Usually for making the bill into law takes the following steps:

If to remove a step in order to make the process i would choose to remove the resolving differences as already there has been a debate regarding the the bill and the voting has been done so what the motive of resolving differences it only increases the time in making other person from the house in their favor and this takes a lot of time.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

our former president bush did 9/11