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| Name | What Is Congress? |
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| Video Discription | The United States Congress is the legislature of the United States, meaning it’s where laws are made. Congress is made up of two houses, the House of Representatives, or just the House, which has 435 members and 6 non voting members and the Senate which has 100 members. Get PAID For Answering Surveys- No Joke, I got £30 off of this in a week-http://qm.ee/488B3739 SUBSCRIBE HERE!-http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__rOFCpeBWMR8EH1Dk2QwQ?sub_confirmation=1 Where you can find me! Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatswhytv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thatswhytv The United States Constitution lays out the role of Congress. The Federal government has three co equal branches, or parts, each with their own specific roles. There is the legislative branch which is made up of the two houses of congress which is where laws are written. The Executive branch, or the President, then carries out these laws. The Judiciary branch which is made up of the supreme court then scrutinises both the laws themselves and how the Executive chooses to carry them out. Congress writes the annual budget which sets out how much the government plans to spend and how much it will get from taxes over a year. Congress also has the power to order borrowing to pay for this. Congress also has power to do other things as well like declare war and approve presidential treaties and appointments. It also serves as a check on the power of the president by starting investigations and hearings, as well as impeaching the President or federal officials which is when they are put on trial. Next we will learn about the legislative process, how a bill, which is a proposal for a law, becomes a law. For a bill to become a law it has to be agreed upon by both houses. The bill can start in either house, but once it has it has to go through a series of committees which scrutinise it and change it. If the committee votes to approve the bill it goes to the Senate and House where it is debated again. In the House debate can only go on for a certain amount of time, because there are so many members compared to the Senate and because unlike in other legislative systems like the United Kingdom, the speaker of the House is not an impartial figure, they can decide what is voted on and how long it is debated or if something will even be debated in the first place. On the other hand in the Senate debate can go on for much longer and members can filibuster, which is when they talk for so long the bill doesn't get voted on. If the bills are agreed upon in both houses, they go to the president, who has to sign them into law. The President can veto bills, which means he or she refuses to sign them into law, but if a ⅔ majority votes against his veto, the bill is made into law regardless. You might be thinking the President doesn’t have much power over legislation, but he or she does have more indirect power as the leader of a political party, meaning the President can set the tone for legislation in Congress. As well as this, it is the President as the executive who decides how the laws that Congress sets are carried out. Next, what are the key differences between the House and the Senate? For starters, the Senate is much smaller than the house, having only 100 members, compared to the House’s 435. The House is also elected more often, every 2 years, whereas ⅓ of the Senate is up every 2 years. You have to be older than 30 to run as a Senator, 25 in the House. There are also some differences in the specific power of the two houses. The Senate ratifies treaties and confirms the president's appointments, it also has the power to try officials once the House has voted for impeachment. The House on the other hand starts revenue bills. According to the writers of the constitution, the differences between the house and senate stem from a need to balance the power of smaller and larger states as well as a need to give the United States’s population as a whole representation in Congress. The United states is a federal republic, meaning it combines a strong national government with maintaining the sovereignty of individual states. One way in which Congress ensures this is through the different make up of members of the two houses. The senate has 2 senators for each state, so every state is equal, and smaller states are thus over-represented whereas the house is divided up by population, more populous states have more representation. In simplistic terms you could say that the Senate maintains the interest of the states, and the House the nation as a whole. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYEhroa19A_nOzpITRySJA2Ua9hoBQxzh7rUs1XeGrtyRMY2jsR0J1-zs5dW2UqilK0QcmL-lfKFUB/pub |
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