Article One of the U.S Constitution grants all legislative power to the House of Representatives and a Senate. This is the result of a compromise, as the House is often in the interest of the popular majority while the Senate deals with the state's interest. This results in the House voting better with majority while the Senate favors long deliberation. House Representative have two year terms, while Senators terms are 6 years. However Representatives and Senators have no term limit, so they can run for re-election as many times as they want. We have 100 Senators, two for every state and 435 Districts. These amount of Representatives is depends of population of their districts. Only the House can originate revenue legislation while the Senate approves of Presidential Nominations and treaties. Both branches do get there own …show more content…
If suggested by a person, and the Representative will research and then write and draft the bill. In the house the bill is as to be scheduled, and then called for a reading, if not called the bill effectively dies. If read the bill is then assigned a committee, if not assigned the bill dies. The committee, after deliberating it can call for a public discussion, is the bill does not get the majority or tabled. If the bill is tabled, and does to come back for another public discussion, the bill dies, like if it did not get the majority. If the bill passed it has a second reading, for amendments and weighing pros and cons. The amendments can be approved by a majority vote. After that vote they vote again, and the bill dies or advances. If not scheduled for a reading, the bill dies. If amendments are proposed, they need a ⅔ majority to pass. After that everyone votes, if a majority is not received the bill dies. If passed by both branches, in the same form then it goes to the president. This process is mirrored at the state and city
All laws start as bills. Any one can draft a bill, a congressman, the President, even Mr. Hughes if wanted something accomplished. Anyone can draft a bill, but only a congressman can put the bill into the bill box. From the bill box it is given to the speaker of the house, who decides which committee receives the bill for the lengthy editing process. The real power of the Speaker of the House is deciding which committee gets the bill, whether he wants the bill to pass or be thrown out. Inside the committees there are subcommittees that where a committee is a large idea, like the Senate armed forces Committee, the sub committees such as the seapower committee. after a long editing process the bill is either passed or trashed. if passed and in the house the next committee the bill goes to is the rules committee, where the date and how long the bill is argued for will be decided. If in the senate, the bill will go to the majority and minority leaders, and they decide when the bill will be brought for the entire senate. again it is argued in the senate or the house and it will either be trashed or passed here too. Finally the bill should be a law right, nope, the bill has to be passed in the other house of congress. finally once it has been passed in both compartments, if the wording is not the same a conference committee meets, with representatives from both the house and senate deciding the final wording of the bill, only
The revised bill then must go back to the floors of each house and be passed by both houses before it can be sent to the President for signing. Finally, the bill is given to the commander and chief, Mr. President. The president role in passing a bill into law includes but in not limited to review the law for equally, verbiage and unfortunally, if it meets his political goals. If Congress is sitting to the left while the President views or more towards the right, the president is more likely to veto the bill. A veto is just a legal term meaning to return or send back. However, if the resubmission doesn’t get approved, with a 2/3 majority the bill can be put into law without presidential approval. The Presidents may also issue a proclamation, often ceremonial in nature or issue an executive order. In conclusion, the Founding Father implemented a system that including checks and balances. The process of a bill passing into a law is a very long and tedious journey. In my professional opinion, the process is a bit out dated and should be reformed. The political parties that is Congress should remain 50/50 while publically announcing all law on major television and radio
On the other hand The House of Representatives is granted the power of originating all bills for the raising of revenue. The House leadership is structured essentially the same as the Senate, with the Members in the political parties responsible for the election of their respective leader and whips. The elected officers of the House of Representatives include the Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Chaplain. Both Houses of Congress act in impeachment proceedings, which, according to the Constitution, may be instituted against the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States.
In the United States, we have a congress. It is a democratic body that is also known as a legislature. This congress has two houses. The first house is the Senate and the second is the House of Representatives. The process by which a seat is filled in either the Senate or House of Representatives, is if there is a vacancy. However, for a Senate seat to be filled, one must be vacant and filled by appointment. When there is a bill that is before congress and needs consideration, it can take a great amount of time before it is processed through. Sometimes, it can be debated and held in congress before the House of Representatives approves it. It must then make its way to the Senate and finally the President, who can choose to veto the bill or sign it into law. Our Congress has more liberties and power than those in a parliament (Wilson, Diiulio, Jr. and Bose 216-217).
First, the congress can send the bill to the President to be signed and passed into a law. However, if the President vetoes the bill, it is then sent back to congress. Congress can then take a vote on the bill and if two-thirds vote to pass it, the bill is made into a law. Lastly, the President can decide to neither sign the bill nor veto the bill. If this happens when the congress is in session, the bill will become a law after ten days without the President’s signature. (Congressforkids.net)
The main difference between the House and the Senate is that the house puts all responsibility on the national government while the Senate positions the responsibility onto the states when it comes to creating their health insurance exchanges. It seems as though that if a state fails to do it they are then under the hand of the House and not the Senate. While both bills are aiming towards a similar result they go about it in different ways. Exclusivity of the health insurance exchange is one way they differ. , The Senate wants non-group health insurance to be sold outside of the exchange where it will be less regulated. The House calls for all non-group health insurance coverage to be sold through the health insurance exchange.
Firstly the members of congress, executive branch, or members of outside community draw up a bill. After that the members of the house only will have to introduce the bill on the floor of house of representative. Then the bill is sent to the committee. Only bills that are necessary and reasonably appropriate make it to the next step, which is the rules of a committee for debate. Then it goes back to the floor of the house for a debate and members of the house then will vote for the bill. If the bill is in favor by most of the members of the house, hence the bill is sent to the senate. The senator introduces the bill on the floor. If the majority of the committees agree then the bill goes to the entire senate to consider the bill. As it follows the same process of the house, there is a debate and if majority votes for the bill then the bill is returned back to the house of representative.
If both the Senate and the House pass the bill, it is then sent to the president for his signature leading to the bill becoming a law (United States Senate, n.d.).
Each of the three branches is controlled by the other two in several ways. The president can veto a law which was passed by Congress, yet Congress can override the veto with a two-thirds vote of both houses. Members of the Supreme Court, which are appointed by the president and approved by Congress, can declare a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution, Article 1 Section 1, states that the legislative branch be created from two separate bodies: a House of Representatives and a Senate, together is known as Congress.
Congress has many functions to keep it working and functioning. They do many things to make laws, make sure they’re fair, and much more. There are also many committees with important jobs. There are many things that influence congressional elections such as reapportionment, redistricting, much more. There are many people who make up the House and Senate and they have many important jobs to keep things running smoothly.
There are 17 Senate committees, with 70 subcommittees, and 23 House committees, with 104 subcommittees. The members of the subcommittee must agree to move forward with the bill and then it is sent off to the full committee; here, the process begins again and is repeated. The full committee must vote to approve the bill to send it on to the House or Senate. The House then debates the bill and if it is approved it will be sent to the President. The President makes the decision to either approve the bill and sign it into law or veto it.
Throughout the entirety of Roman history, “Politics” has been considered one of the most important aspects of life. There are certain similarities between the Roman Senate and the modern day American Senate. For the sake of comparison, I will primarily focus on comparing the Senate under the Republic with the structure of the United States Senate today. We see a similar two party system that is, for the most part, those who control the Senate. Career politicians and the wealthiest citizens make up the Senate, in both societies. The most important similarity that we see are the tools that each individual senator uses to ensure their job is done. Some say the Founding Fathers of the United States modeled their government off of the Roman system
The Athenian legislature also included a deliberative body known as the Boule. It was made up of 500 members -- 50 from each of the 10 tribes -- who were chosen by lot and served for the period of one year. The Boule would meet every day except festival days and propose legislation which was then ratified by all the citizens in the Ekklesia.
Article I of the Constitution gives all legislative powers to the Congress. Congress consists of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, both Senators and Representatives chosen through an
The basic idea for a law can originate from an array of places ranging from a concerned citizen to the President. In order for a bill to become a law it must begin in either the House or the Senate and can only be introduced by a member of Congress (Schwalbe, 2014). In order for a bill to have a chance at becoming a law it must go through various different stages which include committee consideration, floor debate(by House and Senate), conference committees, and then if both houses pass the bill it is then sent to the president to either be signed and become a law or vetoed. When the president gets the bill he actually has up to five options on what to do with it. (Schwalbe, 2014). He can pass it as a law by both dating and signing it