Essay On Filibuster

Congress members have many responsibilities with being part of the national government, yet they have three main jobs that are arguably the most important out of all the others. Those three are writing laws, overseeing the implantation of laws, and serving the needs of their constituents. In lawmaking, only in the Senate, bills go up for discussion, and a senator can get his time to speak, and during this time, that senator can talk about whatever he wants to. Some senators, who are against a certain bill, become what people call a filibuster. A filibuster is a senator who gets his turn to speak, and keeps going on and on and on and on so that the Senate never gets to have the discussion about the bill. A filibuster can talk about anything and everything, whether it pertains to the bill or not, it does not matter. The only requirements a filibuster has, is that they cannot stop talking for a certain period of time, this can change from whoever is leading the meeting, they have to always be standing, and they cannot leave that floor. Therefore, if the filibuster has to go to the bathroom, or wants to sit down, their time would be up, and the floor would go to someone else. This action is important in lawmaking because it can either help promote action against the bill, or it can just end up killing the bill on its own because it took …show more content…
One of those programs they oversee is federal bureaucracy. One of the ways they can control the federal bureaucracy so that it does not get carried away with itself, is to hold back its funding. The House of Representatives is in charge of where money is sent to and how much is going to be spent, therefore, if the House does not like the job the bureaucracy is doing, or the fact that the bureaucracy is not getting anything major done; the House can just hold back funds going to the bureaucracy and make sure that they start doing their