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    of the state of Arizona is bicameral, with a Senate and a House of Representatives. Each Senator and Representative is elected for a two year term. There is a limitation of four consecutive terms. After serving four terms, they must be out of office for one term before they can be reelected to that office. There are certain qualifications to become a legislator. Those seeking office in the state Senate or House of Representatives must be at least 25 years of age, be a United States citizen

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    The U.S. House of Representatives most important job is creating laws. Every law in the United states start as bills, but before a bill can become a law it has to be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the President, and the U.S. Senate. All laws start as ideas. Various ideas may come from just a ordinary American citizen or even a Representative. People who have ideas for laws may contact their Representative to share it with them. In the case that the Representative agrees with their

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    be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”(Source 1). The House of Representatives consist of 435 members, which are divided with the 50 states by their total population. The presiding officer of the is the Speaker of the House who is also elected by the House of Representatives. This speaker is third as to becoming successful in becoming president. Those who want to join the House of Representatives are elected every two years. The

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    party system. He also served as the Secretary of State and Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1957 he was voted as one of the 5 greatest senators by a committee headed up by John F. Kennedy.(1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay) Henry Clay was born

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    of both the House of Representatives and Senate. After the U.S. declared its independence from England, the U.S. framers of the constitution thought it was best for the U.S. to have a bicameral congress because it settled constitutional dispute over representation and because it is both practical and theoretical. Even though they are known as bicameral congress, both the House and Senate have their differences. The House of Representatives is one half of the houses in the United States Congress, and

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    the Constitution, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large

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    Annecissa Brown Dr.Murray POLI 2010 April 30, 2015 Research Paper Compare and contrast the powers of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. What are their roles and functions? The powers of both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate may have a lot of similarities but they also have a lot of differences. There is more similarities than differences. They also have different jobs they do. I will inform you the differences between both and explain the roles

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    committees in both the House and the Senate, established the Congressional Budget Office, and moved the beginning of the fiscal year from July 1 to October 1. The Act had two main goals: (1) strengthen and centralize Congress ' budget authority; (2) reduce the President 's impoundment authority. The latter was done by drafting detailed guidelines restricting how the President can impound funds already appropriated by Congress. 2. The Law Making Function - is a form of the state activity intended on

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    made up of two Chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate. These two bodies draft and pass laws that, if signed by the President of the United States, govern the United States and it's citizens. The bicameral (two-house) Congress emerged from a compromise between delegates from large and small states at the Constitutional Convention, which convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States. The Articles of Confederation

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    government of the united states, both were the laws of the United States Government, both called the nation the United States of America, both where federal United States documents, both could establish an army and declare war on other countries, both had a legislative branch, both could establish coins and set up a federal post office. Examples Articles Constitution Formal name of the nation The United States of America “Not specified, but referred to in the Preamble as "the United States of America"

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