Member of Congress

about or disagreed with. For me I think that congress needs to change. Out of the three branches of government I believe that congress needs to be reformed. As it currently stands I don’t think that it is a well-oiled working machine. That’s why I agree with Sabato when it comes to reforming the Senate and the House. First, I strongly agree that congress should be in a way “reformed”. It irritates me when I turn to various news outlets, and hear how congress is just not working in our interest.…

The Senate is one of the two chambers in the legislative branch of the government of the United states. The Senate is composed of older members than in the House of Representatives. The minimum age requirement in the Senate is 30. There are two senators per each state which means 100 senators in total. Senators have term limits of six years, and unlike the House of representatives, they serve state-wide constituents as well as local constituents. The Senate has a couple of important powers.…

of two houses since the 1300s, and many colonial assemblies were similar in form. Practically, a bicameral legislature was necessary to compromise the Virginia and New Jersey plans of representation. Theoretically, the Framers favored a bicameral Congress in order that one house…

plainly mention it in the Constitution. However, the Constitution does grant the President with powers to appoint various officials. For this reason, it is technically the President who holds constitutional authority over the bureaucracy although Congress does play its own role in the bureaucratic division by overseeing it and creating various agencies and departments within it. When examining what gives the bureaucracy its power, it is valuable to…

results in our congress, voters decide to keep the same members in the house regardless…

central government, while the Anti-Federalists believed in a strong state government. A strong central government would embark little say in the people, and most of the decisions would be made by Congress. A strong state government would give most of the power to the citizens and very little to Congress. Although not many people at this…

There are three branches of government. The legislative, executive, and judicial. The constitution provides a separation of powers to each branch. The legislative branch consists of congress, senate, and the House of Representatives. This governing body is in charge of writing and making bills into laws. The senate has a total of a hundred elected and with two being from each state. Senators serve a six year term and can be re-elected multiple times. The house of representatives has 435 voting…

both the president of the United States, and members of congress for coming up with and developing budgetary plans. Those two groups are The Office of Management and Budget and The Congressional Budget Office. These two offices are little known by the general public, but have a huge impact on everyday life of American citizens. The office of Management and Budget has been around for many years under a few different names. The office was created when congress passed the Budget and Accounting Act…

In 1787, our founding fathers established a system in our constitution called the Electoral College. This system permitted eligible and competent citizens, who use the national popular voting system, to compromise with the votes of Congress in the election of the President and the Vice President of the United States. Although the Electoral College has been in place for more then two hundred years, there are a number of conflicting opinions about whether or not it should be eliminated and…

adopt darker and less favorable political tactics. In theory the ideal process of a bill becoming a law includes a complex but decidedly fair set of procedures. The process begins when a member of Congress presents a piece of legislature which…