Senate

In the constitution, Article 1 is about the Legislative Branch. The Legislative Branch is made up of the two houses of congress. Those houses are Senate and House of Representatives. The Legislative Branch are the ones who writes the laws. The laws are written and then passed on to congress for a vote. There are one hundred senators in the Senate, two from each state. The House of Representatives is made up of 435 elected members, divided among the 50 states in proportion to their total…

of America, we have a bicameral legislature. These chambers of our legislature are unique, and constructed to be different from one another. The House of Representatives and the Senate are powerful in their own ways. When the Framers thought of how to create a legislature they included some differences. The House and Senate work together but are also diverse in terms of function, organization, and stature. The functions of both chambers are alike in some ways as well as different. For…

Journal Entry: This entry covers Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn’s response against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s accusations of how the Republican Party is attempting to create Medicare reductions with substantial tax cuts thought the new tax reform bill. He asserts that the Republican Party did not alter any of the entitlement programs of Medicare and that Pelosi’s statements are false. In addition, Cornyn mentions how the Democratic Party has been completely unwilling to cooperate…

The Senate and the House of Representatives both have very critical positions in the process of writing and introducing a bill. The senate starts off this task by having the bill read aloud on the floor. By introducing the bill to the floor ultimately leads to the bill to become dropped into the bill hopper. The initiated bill is then referred to committee by the speaker. The bill is then passed to the House Judiciary and the Senate Judiciary. The House Judiciary Subcommittee consist of Crime,…

differences between the Senate and the House of Representatives are serving time after the members have been elected. Senators are elected to six year terms, members of the House are elected for two years term. There is no limit to the number of the members of either chamber of the conference that can be used. Perhaps because they are short term, House representatives were more likely to be re-elected senator. The requirements are different for elected House of Representatives and the Senate.…

The Senate is one of the two chambers in the legislative branch of the government of the United states. The Senate is composed of older members than in the House of Representatives. The minimum age requirement in the Senate is 30. There are two senators per each state which means 100 senators in total. Senators have term limits of six years, and unlike the House of representatives, they serve state-wide constituents as well as local constituents. The Senate has a couple of important powers.…

economic welfare of the United States. The legislative branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which makes up the very essence in establishing a voice for the people and equal representation of each state under one government. Under the great compromise of 1787, a dual congressional system was born to allow states and both Houses equal representation (The United States Senate, 2015). While both represent the people, there are differences between the elected House…

Congress has two leading legislative bodies: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Differences between the House and Senate are varied. This is due to the Founding Fathers intent to create a system of government that was both responsive to the needs of the people and yet careful in its policy development. There was also the need for checks and balances of power and policymaking within the government to avoid one body having more influence than the other. Similarities include both…

between the House of Representatives and the Senate are many. First, the Senate is much smaller than the House. There are 100 seats in the Senate and 435 seats in the House. Two Senators will represent each state in the Senate while one representative from each congressional district, with the number of districts in a state being determined by population, will represent the House. The House mainly initiates all revenue based legislation while the Senate has the power to approve foreign treaties…

a bicameral Congress which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives. It was designed to avoid giving too much power to just one branch; a way to maintain balance based on the interest of the states. This new system was created as a way to repair the weak government during the Articles of Confederation. The House is based on population and the Senate is based on state representation. I will discuss how the legislative process differs in the Senate and the House of Representatives as…