Illinois House of Representatives

into the House, the Senate, and the Executive Branch. In the House, we split into the Internal Matters Committee, Government Operations Committee, and the Budget Committee, where the first two committees reviewed today 's mail, took notes on the mail, and reviewed and formed stances on the legislation written about in the letters. All of the members of the House then joined together with the Budget Committee members and discussed the budget. We finalized the proposed budget by the House and then…

preferred the Congress to choose the President. Based on the current election procedure, the Presidential candidate who receives majority of the electoral votes is appointed to the office however if no candidate receives the majority, the House of Representatives…

means that we do notchoose our president directly. But why? It is a great example of federalism. Federalism is a political concept describing the practice whereby a group of members are bound together by agreement or covenant with a governing representative head. It refers to a system of government in which…

known as Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary. The first one is the Legislature which is under Article I. Section 1 says that the Legislature is made up of people called Congress, which is made up of a two-part body: House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house) which can be found in sections 2 and 3 and its requirements. Sections 4-10 explains how the states elect Congress, the regulations of Congress, how bills will become laws, certain powers and limits that Congress…

Victoria Dochoghlian Poli Sci 137BW Prof. Uhlaner November 5, 2015 Are the Representatives “Like Us” in the U.S. Congress? “Stand for” representation, means a descriptive or symbolic representative that stands for someone or something. In descriptive representation there is the idea of representing a group of people and governing for them, two very different theories. Representing descriptively means to proportionally and characteristically represent the population they stand for, and to…

government by the whole population or by elected representatives. Citizens of the U.S. elect representatives from their respective state, who in turn elect the president. The democracy of the U.S., hence, is ditto of the democracy that the Athenian followed. In the United States, only adult citizens are able to elect their representatives. Similarly, only adult Athenian militia was allowed to vote. People of Athens didn’t feel the necessity of having representatives. Hence, any Athenian who was…

Congress is divided into two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The executive branch is in charge of enforcing the laws and can even introduce new policies and reforms. The branch consists of the President, his vice president, and his cabinet. The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court, all federal courts, and circuit courts. The legislative branch is consists of two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is…

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Author John Acton is credited for this phrase, which is used a lot today as a way to describe the current U.S. Congress. The question is, where does the power come from, and what is the most corruptible power out there? The answer is simply that Congress can vote to give themselves a pay raise. There is very little impeding their path to getting a bigger paycheck each year. This process, whether you believe it or not, is actually constitutional, and has been…

of legislature in the Congress. Typically, groups hire representatives to promote the interest of the group: lobbyists talk with reporters, place advertisement in newspapers, and initiate written campaigns. They attempt to…

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…