Remember Schoolhouse Rock?
We wrote in July that the cartoon doesn't quite depict how a bill becomes a law. It can take years for a bill to weave its way through the House and Senate and onto the president’s desk to be signed into law.
But Saturday Night Live has a different idea: The president can sign his own bill into law.
The show reframed the Schoolhouse Rock sketch of your childhood to riff on Washington gridlock, especially when it comes to immigration reform.
The video is the click du jour in Washington.
The sketch aired one day after President Barack Obama signed an executive order in Las Vegas deferring deportations for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants against the wishes of the new Republican majority in Congress.
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