Legislatures

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…

The Separation of Powers was written by Baron de Montesquieu, a French Enlightenment philosopher, to get rid of tyranny. It separates the government into three parts: The Legislative branch (Congress, the law making branch), the Executive branch (President, the branch that makes law official) and the Judicial branch (Supreme Court, the branch that explains the laws under the Constitution). The Founding Fathers wrote the “Separation of Powers” in the Constitution since their first idea, stating…

Abhinandan Yadav Professor Sharifian Govt-2306 April 29, 2018 Assignment-3 If I would be elected then I would like to serve in the committees of Homeland security and public safety or transportation or Higher education. The function of these committee are described below. 1. Homeland Security and Public Safety: According to Texas state of Representatives, Homeland security committee shall have nine members. The function of Homeland security is law implementation, the counteractive action of…

Assesses the role that agency rule making plays in regulating a society through administrative agencies is the interesting part of the governmental system. Under the Constitution, the law branch has the right to supervise and execute all laws. According to Article 1, Section 8, all the law powers are issued under Congress. With this right, Congress has given administrative agencies the power to build the rules for implementing laws, known as the delegation doctrine. Administrative agencies,…

The United States of America is one among the states that have the most powerful form of government. Notably, the American government commonly referred as American Federal Government has the best administrative policies. The American Federal Government has three main branches and each branch has powers delegated to it by the constitution. The core founders of this nation sought to ensure that each branch had its powers to exercise and that the branches relied on each other (separation of powers)…

In order for a bill to become a law it must first be passed within both of the chambers of Congress, The House of Representatives and the Senate. First and foremost, the two chambers vary within size and term lengths, the House has 435 congressmen with two-year terms and the Senate has 100 Senators with six year terms. Both chambers have different rules and procedures to pass bills through. The House is the “peoples party” and in session, Monday through Thursday whereas the Senate operates…

WEEK 8 REFLECTION Is lawmaking a procedural or political process? How? Lawmaking is a political process. It starts with a bill etering the House abs the Senate. The bill is then referred to the sub-committee for for hearings and mark-ups. After that the bill is returned to the House and Senate Floor for debate and amendments. Then to the Conference committee for reconciliation of the differences between House and Senate. If majority of conferees from each body approves the reconciled bill it…

legislators from civil liability for words spoken during debate (Part 2, Sec. Bill which are placed in COW must be voted out to advance. Bills rarely get stopped in COW because it is seen mainly as a stage for debate and amendment of a bill by the legislatures. (“POS 220 lesson 10”, 2017, The Bill-to-Law Process…

The promise of America has always been that it would be a government by the people, for the people. However, gerrymandering is and ever-looming threat to American ideals, and is potentially one of the biggest threats to equal representation for Americans.By further understanding what this phenomenon is and how the nature of undermined representation manifests itself though the gerrymandering of congressional districts, it can be deduced how basic American values are potentially compromised…

The Difference Between the House and Senate In order to be in The House of Representative, you must be 25 years of age and also a U.S citizen for at least seven years. In order to become a Senator you must be 30 years of age , and been a U.S citizen for the past nine years . The election is usually held in November among the people in the U.S. The House is mainly 435 members and the Senate is 100 members , they both have odd number of people in there group. The House members usually…