Party leaders of the United States Senate

driver’s licenses and requires aliens to prove their "legal presence" in the United States (Thomas, HR 1268.) Its basic purpose is to ensure that state-issued licenses and IDs meet certain standards and requirements that the federal government sets before they will be considered valid. This piece of legislation has caused quite a bit of debate since its origination and passage into law. Some throughout the United States support this piece of legislation because they believe it will protect our…

the United States of America has many responsibility over the nation. (S)He is the commander and chief of the military and is in charge of all military operations. The leader of the nation needs to bring peace to the United States and passes laws. The president needs to follow the constitution. The president has six big roles. The president is the chief of state making him the living symbol of this nation. To all other countries, they see the president’s behavior as the behavior of the United…

the question on if seniority should still be enforced if other members are more acquainted or even experts on the committee topic. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of power is given to more senior senators compared to junior senators. Senior senates, who are often incumbents, have the security derived from a safe district, while junior senators are more vulnerable to the changing political tides. When the honeymoon period between the president and the public ends, there is no guarantee…

Bank of the United States debate Joe W Pfingsten HST201 CSU Global- Online Campus September 6th, 2015 Jonevic Hular Angco Bank of the United States debate INTRODUCTION Even though Clay and Webster were the ones that were right that the bank to stay open and was not bad for the people. Andrew Jackson side of the Bank of the United States debate was the right way. He was right the bank had too much power and enemy of the common people. The Economic privileges and social inequities of the…

President Barack Obama is the President of the United States. As the President has many duties he has to perform. One of the duties he has to perform is appointing staff members, the cabinet, and several other officials. In Article Two, Section Two of the Constitution it states that the President of the United States has a right to appoint officials. The Chief of Staff is Denis McDonough. As the Chief of Staff McDonough has to supervise the staff of the White House, control who is near the…

President Obama 's additional war-related campaign agreement was to improve the United States military assurance in Afghanistan in order to maintain the extremist Taliban’s from achieving power and allowing the Al Qaeda repeatedly using the country as the foundation for terrorist operations against the United States. Obama soon after taking office, granted the military 's request, which was originally made at the end of the Bush presidency, to dispatch an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan,…

making a total of 160 legislators. The Washington House, on the other hand, is constituted of 98 lawmakers in the lower house and 49 in the upper house, making a total of 147. The two states also slightly differ in the length of their legislative bodies and the term limit for which a legislature can serve. In both states at the upper houses, the elected lawmakers have a term lasting two years; however, there is a limit of 4 terms in which one can serve in the upper legislative arm in Florida…

On February 24, 2009, just over a month after becoming President of the United States of America, President Barack Obama stood and gave his first State of the Union address. In his speech, he presented to the public some of his goals as President to help pull America out of the economic recession. He presented specific ideas in areas such as budgeting and economic recovery, health care, and education. Now, nearly seven years later, we can look back and evaluate how his goals have been met.…

it may be possible to get rid of the effects of this paradox, therefore rendering it harmless. An example of the paradox may be slavery; the majority ruled that the minority should not have any rights at all. The Jim Crow Law, passed in 1877, gave states in the US the right to segregate between white people and colored people ("Crow Law"). Segregation as a whole is the perfect example of how majority rule may not agree with minority rights. There is no clear way to eliminate the disagreements…

of Conscience” in order to make the Senate and President Truman re-evaluate their positions on a speech made four months prior. In February of 1950, fellow Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused 205 members of the State Department of being communist traitors to the United States government. His accusations caused fear, mistrust, and hatred among the senators. Through her speech a few months later, Smith set the record straight and encouraged the Senate to regain “basic principles of…