Joshua Daubenspeck
Stakeholder Research Paper
English 101
May 27, 2015
The Ways of Congress
Introduction
“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”
-Todd Akin, Republican Senate Candidate from Missouri. The quote above was made by Senator Todd Akin (R-Missouri) during an television interview with KVTI and was posted on August 19, 2012 to their website. As constituents, we need to take a major interest in
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I believe that the college-age generation in America should be more active in public and political life, particularly regarding the policies of the United States Congress that concern important issues such as women’s rights, workplace discrimination, and healthcare.
Congress and How It Works Congress holds an equal amount of power in the three branches of government. The three branches of government are executive, legislative, and judicial. For this essay, I am focusing on the legislative branch, meaning that they make laws. The Congress is split into two branches, the Senate and House of Representatives. There are 100 Senators, two for every state. Senators are elected to a six year term, and are up for reelection every two years. There are 435 members in the House of Representatives divided among the states in proportion to their total population. Members of the house are elected every two years, and must be 25 years of age, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and a resident of the state. The first step in the legislative process is introducing a bill, written by various Congressmen to other Congress members. After the bill is introduced, it is referred to the appropriate committee for review. The bill is first considered in a subcommittee, where it may be accepted, amended, or rejected entirely. If the full committee votes to approve the bill, it is reported to the floor of the House or Senate, and majority party leadership decides when to
The United States government is composed of three branches. These branches are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. The simplest way to put it is the Legislative branch creates laws, the Executive branch carries out these laws, and the Judicial branch evaluates the laws. The United States Congress is the Legislative branch that is composed of two parties, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Although the two come together to form one Congress, they each have their own powers and organization, as well as some similarities.
The summary of the legislative branch this is its history of it and what it does. Another name for it is called congress. The legislative branch is the part that makes up and votes on laws to be passed. The legislative branch consist of the house of representatives and the senate. The house is made up of four hundred and thirty five people it's divided up by the population of the state also the be in the house you have to be a member of the House are elected every two years and must be 25 years of age, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and a resident of the state. The senate is made up of one hundred people two for each state Senators must be 30 years of age, U.S. citizens for at least nine years, and residents of the state they represent.
The book How Congress Works, by Lee H. Hamilton, tells us a brief summary of the interworking’s of congress. The book begins to convey the role of congress in chapter one, the author begins with congresses important roles in our democracy. Which are passing budgets, manage conflicts that arise, debate issues facing the country and most importantly to act within the system of checks and balances. In our government neither congress nor president is supreme, most of the authority is with the citizens. The United States government is balanced into three branches of government: Congress, POTUS, SCOTUS, the House of Representatives and the Senate: also between the Federal Government and the States. The States are broken down into different regions with different issues facing them and different interests eventually boiling down to the bill of rights. Congress has the power of lawmaking, along with what the President’s agenda is, recommending bills to congress, and the power of the President to veto bills. Congress contains the power of the purse in which Congress controls the power of taxation and spending. Congress legislations and policies control some aspects of our lives like taxation or when they regulate us. Our Government
The legislative branch, Congress, has the power to make laws valid for the whole country. Powers like the regulation of taxes, regulation of commerce between the states and with foreign countries, the power to declare war, and the power to impeach the President are some of the issues the legislative branch has to deal with. Congress has two chambers (or "houses"): the Senate and the House of Representatives ("the house").
Oliver Ellsworth, an important American lawyer and politician that lived during the first American Independence day, states his opinion on a new American Congress, “The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all”. In the original United States Constitution, the Framers wanted to make three different and equal branches of government, but today that is not the case. In present day government, Congress is more powerful than the President. The Legislative Branch, or Congress, is the second branch of the United States Federal Government. Congress is made up of two houses called the Senate and the House of Representatives. The main purpose of
The legislative branch is the most powerful branch in government. The legislative branch is in charge of making and passing laws. They have the power to override a president’s decision, stop laws from being passed, and basically control all decisions the governments makes. The legislative branch, also called the congress, consists of the House of Representatives and the senate. The reason for two houses of congress is to balance out the concerns of smaller but more populated states against states that are larger but with less population (www.Usgovinfo.com).
The government is divided into three branches. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. James Madison states in his Federalist papers, “Liberty requires that the great departments of powers should be separate and distinct.” Legislative writes the laws for and consists of the House of Representatives and Senate. Executive branch passes the laws the legislative branch makes and the President is the head of this branch. Judicial branch decides if laws are constitutional or not and consists of the Supreme Court. This keeps one branch from getting too much power.
According to the constitution of the United States the federal government is divided up into three branches to ensure an equal and balanced government and to make sure that no one or branch of government has too much power. The three branches are the legislative branch, executive branch, and the judicial branch. Each branch serves different purposes in the United States federal government and each branch is made up of different federal government employees. For example, the legislative branch make the laws. The legislative branch has the power to impeach the U.S. President and declare war. The legislative branch is made up of U.S. Congress which include the Senate and House of Representatives. Then there’s the executive branch which carry
There are 3 branches of the U.S. Constitution. One of them is called the Legislative Branch. The job of the branch is to make laws. It’s made up of two houses. The laws are written, discussed, and voted in congress. Both of them are called the House of Representatives and the Senate. Once the House of Representatives makes a law they pass it to the Senate. If the Senate agrees then it gets passed to the President. The leader of the House of Representatives is Paul Ryan. The leader of the Senate is Mike Pence. The qualifications to be a Representatives are must be elected in state, must be 7 years of citizen, must be 25 years old, and must live in state elected. This is about the Legislative Branch.
THESIS: The Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate which forms the United States Congress; the Constitution grants Congress the single authority to pass legislation and declare war, the right to approve or reject Presidential appointments, and significant investigative powers.
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of our government made up by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Our Congress, just as all branches of our government, derives its power from the US Constitution, specifically Article 1 section 8 which outlines the specific enumerated powers of Congress. This Article also outlines the implied powers of Congress. These implied powers include all things which are deemed necessary in order for Congress to carry out the jobs assigned to it by their enumerated powers.
The first thing I will talk about is the Articles. Article one has several sections about The Legislative Branch. The first section talks about the Legislative Power Vested. The second section is the House of Representatives. Third is the Senate. Fourth is t Election of Senators and Representatives. Fifth is the Rules of House and Senate. Sixth is the Compensation and Privileges of Members. Seventh is the
The Legislative Branch is made up of the Senate and House of Representatives which, forms our congress. In the legislative branch, congress makes the law. Some of the powers the legislative branch has are passing laws, originating spending bills, impeaching officials, and approving treaties. Also they can propose amendments and create lower federal courts. The legislative branch can override a presidential veto, and impeach and/or remove the president. To be a representing there are rules, in the constitution it says "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen." Article one explains what the
There are three different branches in the government. In these six different scenarios that were given in this prompt. The legislative branch represents the Congress. The congress is led by the House of Representatives and the Senate. What these two figures in this branch do is make the laws of the state. They have the power to pass laws, agree on treaties, and originate on spending bills. In the Executive Branch, it is represented by the president. In this branch the President has the power to propose laws, is in charge of the military, and has the right to veto laws. Last but not least the Judicial Branch, is represented by Federal Judges. They are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. In other words the Judicial Branch enforces the laws and makes sure people are following them as they should be (Branch, no date ).
“The legislative branch is the law making branch of government made up of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and agencies that support Congress.” (USA.gov) The job of this branch is to write the bills. If a bill does not pass in Congress it will not go to the President. The Legislative Branch is made of 535 people, 100 of whom are senators and 435 are representative. Where the Senators will serve six years and the representatives will only serve two.