Answer: The Spanish said the rafts were in the shape of the extended fingers of a hand. The large balsa logs, lashed together with henequen fiber, formed the main deck of a raft. Seawater passed freely between and over the logs making it very difficult for rafts to be swamped by heavy seas.
If you are talking about a bill, it is debated with the House of Representatives, and then sent to the President for signature.
The United States was the last to join the Allied Powers because they did not want to be apart of the war. They joined the Allied Powers after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
