Until the Senate and the House pass the EXACT SAME BILL and the bill is signed by the President or the bill is not signed and becomes law because both Houses passed it, there is no law.
Just because the House of Representatives passes a law, does not make it a law without passage of the exact same law from the Senate as well. Unless both Houses of Congress get together and agree on a bill, no bill exists.
In 2008 Harley Lappin, head if the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), asked the Department of Justice No. 2 person to investigate Public Law 80-772, including 18 U.S.C. Section 3231. The Department of Justice, along with the clerk for the House of Representatives and the National Archives, also were asked to investigate the validity of Public Law 80-772. The Department of Justice determined that Public Law 80-772 was unconstitutional, as memorialized in the Lappin Memorandum, July 27, 2009, which was sent to BOP staff by Harley Lappin. Witnesses are available to confirm the validity of the Lappin Memorandum.
