House of Representatives

and powers, and to attain party integration. The minority party in the House of Representatives has a minority leader who meets with the majority leader to discuss prevalent issues in the country; they usually work very close to one another. The job of minority whip is to maintain communication between the minority leader and its members. The minority party in the Senate has very similar tasks as the House of Representatives, they have a minority leader who also works very close to the majority…

up of the Senate and House of Representatives and it's most important duty is to make the laws of our great country. The Senate is made of one-hundred senators, two from each state are elected to serve a six year term. The Vice President is the head of the Senate. However, he does not vote unless the Senate is split fifty to fifty. The House of Representatives is made up of 435 representatives and each representative is elected to serve a two year term. The representatives…

needed, they will try to get representatives of that state to submit it to the national government. This leads to the next step: the law is introduced to the House of Representatives or Senate. From here the bill will be sent to a committee. In this committee they will choose to kill it, which is to say no, or approve it. If approved, the bill will go to the Rules Committee, they will set the date for the bill to be discussed and debated. On the decided date, the house of Congress that the bill…

two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each house, however, clashes with one another, making for a broken Congress. In Hamilton and Madison’s On Congress (1788), in order to be in the House of Representatives, one “must be of the age of twenty-five years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must, at the time of his election, be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent” (page 180). If these guidelines are met and one is elected as a representative,…

“The Democrats are under-represented by about 18 seats in the House, relative to their vote share in the 2012 election”, states the Washington Post. How is this possible the one political party can be so underrepresented when we are told that every voice is equally represented in the House of Representatives? In comes the term gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is as old as Democracy is here in the United States. It dates back to our founding fathers. What is gerrymandering and how does it affect…

at the state house which is now Independence Hall but for two weeks they adjourned meetings until they met their quorum. On May 25th 1787 all states are present except for Rhode Island. But by May 29th, Edmund Randolph presented a plan called the Virginia Plan which was written by James Madison and would provide for a strong centralized government composed of three branches, the judicial, executive and legislative to avert any corruption of power. Madison 's plan describes two houses: one with…

branches. One way the Executive branch checks on the Legislative branch is that the President has the power to veto laws passed by the Congress. They also can propose laws to the Congress. The Executive branch also submits the Federal Budget to the House. They also elect federal officials, who carry out and enforce the laws. The Executive branch also has checks on the judicial branch. Officials in the executive branch nominate judges to the Supreme Court and to the federal court system. The…

United States, elected officials must come to office not to seek power for themselves but to use their power to govern the states. Therefore, the Constitution should be amended to provide for term limits for members of Congress in both houses. United States representatives and senators didn't always make…

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…

representation of citizen’s demands, the Legislative branch of government was formed. The Legislative branch is a “Bicameral Legislature consisting of Senate and House of Representatives.”(p53) While these two chambers serve a different constituency, the members of both House and Senate are elected directly by the people. Both the House and the Senate are designed to form legislation that responds to the demands of political actors outside of government. These demands are inputs, and the…