Illinois 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…

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 population. Members of the House are elected every two years and must be…

Australia, and New Zealand. The prime minister is Malcolm Turnbull. Parliament is elected every three years in an election much like that of the United States. There are two sections in parliament, the House of Representatives and the Senate. There are 150 members in Australia’s House of Representatives. There are 76 senators in the senate. There are 12 senators from each state and two senators from each mainland territory. The economy of Australia is a…

Elections and campaigns play a big part of the democratic system. Elections are conducted every two years and are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years. States must elect members of Congress and vote for president on this date. Durning non-presidential years in Texas, general elections are held every two years to elect candidates to statewide offices such as governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, land commissioner, agricultural commissioner…

Since the 2000 Election, the question of whether the electoral college does more harm than help the country has been a widely debated topic. While the question never left people’s minds, people seemed to believe it would not happen again especially after Barack Obama’s two successful wins in both the popular vote and electoral college. However, the recent 2016 Election truly has people outraged and thinking of the question more every day as the current President is constantly in the news for…

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…

The Executive Cabinet is perhaps one of the most import entities in the legislative process. The cabinet is the final step in the process, and is what determines if a bill passes or fails. But also, the Executive Cabinet can help determine which bills even make it out of committees and onto the docket. The Cabinet provides its Executive Agenda each year, which outlines its priorities for the upcoming program year. The Agenda is a valuable resource for bill authors, and can help determine what…

proposed either from a citizen like you or a representative. From there if other representatives support that idea then that set of ideas are written down into bills. After that representative has written down that bill then that bill needs a sponsor and some support from other representatives so it can be introduced. Next the bill is placed in the hopper and a reading clerk comes in and reads the bill to all representatives and the speaker of the house. The speaker’s main duties and…

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…

modify the bill in open session, namely markup, and elect whether to refer a bill to the whole house. To fully understand the process and weight the committee has, one must know the committees and their purpose. There…