United States congressional districts

Descriptive Representation: Factors that Contribute to the Underrepresentation of Hispanic-Americans in The U.S. House of Representatives According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population in the United States is fifty-four million. The 113th Congress, has twenty-eight Hispanic U.S. Representatives and only three Hispanic Senators (Green 2014, Class). The stereotypical portrait of a member of congress is a white, middle-age man, former attorney who was raised in a middle to upper class

What is congressional gridlock? It is when it is a difficulty passing laws that satisfy the needs of the people. The government is in gridlock when the ratio between bills passed and the agenda of the legislature decreases. In America congressional gridlock or deadlock has become just like tax reform, in the sense that no one does anything about it but everyone talks about it. Gridlock has manifested everywhere, for intense the Congress failure to make a budget for the United States of America,

Patrick Maloney was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada on July 30, 1966. He moved to the United States to attend college, following his interest in politics. He later married Randy Florke, which named Maloney the first openly gay congressman, and the two are currently raising three children in Coldspring, New York. Sean Patrick Maloney works on the 113th United States Congress in New York’s 18th Congressional District in which he is very successful and a member of many committees, which serve as a platform

The legislative branch was the first branch in the United States history. It serves many purposes such as passing laws, declaring war, impeaching the president, overriding the president's veto, and much more. Congress has more powers than the president. However, Congress is not perfect and create national policy incoherence and contradictions. Additionally, there is a polarization in the United States as well as in Congress, because of this it is difficult to come to agreements and pass legislation

the district size and its geographic make up varies from region to region and state to state, it is oftentimes plausible to categorize a district as either homogenous or heterogeneous based upon its racial and ethnic pluralities, as well as the constituents relative economic status. A homogenous district typically is comprised of individuals who are like-minded with similar opinions and district goals. However, in a heterogeneous district, there is a “difference between the dominant district group

The Preamble of the United States Constitution states that, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The United States Constitution has clearly set out the guidelines that our government should always maintain,

When one sits down and takes a look at the Constitution of the United States, it is evident that any reference of political parties is absent from its pages. However in modern American politics, political parties essentially define the entire political ideology spectrum in the United States. The two major parties that encompass modern politics are the Democrats, and the Republicans. The ideologies of these two entities however are at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, and contain almost no

Introduction: Public policy is affected by the decisions of the congressional and presidential process due to the fact that these parties cannot agree on certain issues. The congressional electoral process offers more individualism among its members than among legislators. Congress seeks for re-elections because they want to maintain a personal reputation among voters. The presidential process is composed of various steps that every candidate needs to go through to get elected. When both electoral

Policy Introduction In the United States, each state is divided into a number of districts proportional to the population of that state. Within each district, an election is held every two years; it is the winners of these elections that comprise the U. S. House of Representatives. Every ten years, in response to the national census, the states are re-divided into districts to ensure equal representation in the House of Representatives; this redrawing of districts is called redistricting. Redistricting

system defeats fundamental principles of democracy. Republicans in both states have proposed abandoning the winner-take-all format for choosing electors, where all of the state's electoral votes go to the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote. Instead, they want to award electors according to vote totals in individual congressional districts. This would give Republican presidential candidates at least some electors in each state, which have both gone