House of Representatives

any part of the process it is important that both parties have come to some type of agreement. Once the bills start to be agreed upon by the house and the senate they are finally sent to the President’s desk. In the case of our government this rarely happens, and 90% of the bills that are looked at rarely every make it this far. Additionally, once the house and senate have passed the bills, the president stills holds the power to veto it. This entire process, of disagreement, agreement, vetoing,…

to sign off on the budget if the Affordable Care Act is affected. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, stated “I want to be absolutely crystal clear: Any bill that defunds Obamacare is dead, dead.” After two whole day of back-and-forth between the House and Senate, on Tuesday, October first two-thousand thirteen, at one in the morning the Federal government shutdown. As a result, eight-hundred thousand federal employees were placed on furlough, mandatory time off without pay, indefinitely. Over…

(Aboukhadijeh, 2010). Congress consistently resorted to begging states for financial contributions and was most often turned down; giving the government no funds to pay soldiers or repay foreign loans that supported the Revolutionary War. Elected representatives often spent more time on the politics in their home states and personal affairs and states continued to make their own laws with regards to taxation and commerce. Most states did so because of…

A bicameral legislature is defined as one in which the legislators are divided into two separate assemblies, chambers or houses. This system is what we Americans use in order to create balance between the powers of its citizens, and it’s government. The Framers being our founding fathers, believed that we needed this system to help America not return to the same overpowering form of government that they left behind when they departed from the British. The Framers of the Constitution created a…

“Politics” is one of those words everyone hates. No one wants to talk about it at the dinner table, some think of happier topics, and some fear it absolutely. Yet, politics is necessary, and it is important that people living in a democracy practice it. People have the freedom to not involve themselves with politics, however, practicing it is what is necessary for everyone. The idea is similar to education: we may not use some information we have learned at all in our life, but at least we are…

Thousands Less Could Have Had HIV If you were to randomly line up 100 residents of Washington D.C., you can be assured that about three of them are living with HIV/AIDS. Washington D.C. has had the highest AIDS diagnosis rate in the country for years, and a high percentage of those cases are a result of injection drug use. With those statistics in mind, one would expect implementing a clean needle exchange program to be incontestable. Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is opposed, and made his…

before legislation gets passed. The congress is made up of the House of Representatives, and the Senate. In the house, it’s majority rule. The downside of that may be that the Rules committee has the final decision of the floor and what is it they they are going to debate. This committee was formed to say what amendment can or cannot be permitted on the floor. Which, is an obstacle to try and get bills passed. Once passed by the House, it goes to the Senate…

The incumbency rate for House and Senate is over 90% every election year. This means that the chances of a loss for those running for reelection is almost inconceivable. The reasoning for this high incumbency rate is due to many advantages of the candidate. One advantage is the…

largest cities have implemented term limits on their government officials and 37 states have implemented them. This shows that a vast majority of the American people support having term limits on their leaders. The American people want to send representatives to their capitals and Washington so that they will work for them and do what’s right for the nation. Not for them to work for themselves and their own purposes. If the American people want their leaders to fight for them and work for them…

who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1849 to August 11, 1868. Stevens strived to end slavery and secure equal rights for African-Americans during Reconstruction. Stevens played a major role in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, who took control of Reconstruction after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Thaddeus Stevens had a rough start to life, which ultimately helped him become the successful lawyer and House Representative that he was in his day…