Given the chance to contact or message one of our legislators, what bill/resolution would you write/author/amend to contribute to the improvement of our laws? *Optional: You can contact them thruWhen passed by both chambers in identical form and signed by the President or repassed by Congress over a presidential veto, they become laws. A joint resolution, like a bill, requires the approval of both houses and the signature of the President. It has the force and effect of a law if approved.