-Under Article II, Section 2, the president is given the power to nominate officers of the United States. -The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly mention the bureaucracy. -The president and Congress lack sufficient control over the bureaucracy. Which of the following is an example of a revenue agency?
Members of the U.S. House and Senate were on average significantly older than the population. Those with military service were underrepresented relative to their numbers in the U.S. population. Foreign-born individuals were represented in the U.S. Senate in proportions similar to their percentage of the population.
And while the 115th Congress was more legislatively active than its recent predecessors, the proportion of substantive to ceremonial legislation was much the same, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. congressional data.
The bicameral structure of the U.S. Congress produces many distinguishing features, including the constituencies to whom these members are accountable. Whereas all senators are elected statewide, most representatives are selected from small congressional districts. Complete the following statement.
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The Speaker and majority leader of the U.S. House need the support of a majority of his or her caucus.
A representative is petitioned by a vocal minority of her constituents to vote in a certain way; though the majority opinion in the district is unknown, the representative votes as that minority wants. -Delegate
The years after 1990 were characterized by a much greater degree of partisan polarization than were the years prior to 1970.
House leadership has more power over its members than does the Senate leadership.
Members of the majority party have little control over committee membership and chairpersons.
Congressional committees may investigate a program and choose to change or eliminate it.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the least effective members of the last Congress according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking — a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
Sens. Gillibrand and Schumer landed in the 30s in the study.
Study declares AOC one of the least effective members of Congress. AOC's legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law. Tom Williams/Pool. She’s the queen of Twitter — but less successful at lawmaking.
Story continues. The reasoning here is very simple. All members of Congress swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, which establishes a republica n form of government. The whole point of a republic is that contests for power are conducted through a framework of rules and democratic elections, where all parties agree to respect ...
But it's worth thinking about what a party seriously committed to preserving democracy would do when faced with a seditious opposition party — namely, cut them out of power and force them to behave. Democrats could declare all traitors ineligible to serve in national office, convene a Patriot Congress composed solely of people who have not committed insurrection against the American government, and use that power to re-entrench democracy.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, written to exclude Confederate Civil War traitors, says that "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress … who … having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [.]".
It is virtually impossible to imagine the ancient, timid fossils that run the Democratic Party even considering this kind of thing (though remarkably, Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey has) because it would require courage, vision, and honestly reckoning with the parlous state of the nation.
1. Identification of ONE cause of the development depicted in the petition:
The text above is part of a petition delivered to King George in 1748, with the request for the expansion of the colony of Virginia, because of its agricultural and commercial potential.
Making them work as a whole is critical for the party’s agenda and political prospects. Failure could have major electoral and economic consequences — including the potential of a first-ever default on the government’s debt that could precipitate a global financial crisis. Here are all the moving parts.
Republicans have made it clear that they intend to filibuster an ordinary bill to raise the debt ceiling , as they did on Monday. For Democrats to do so unilaterally, they would most likely have to use a budget process called reconciliation that shields fiscal measures from a filibuster.
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed in the Senate with bipartisan support but is threatened in the House by Democrats wanting the reconciliation bill to pass.
Mr. Biden has been negotiating with the holdouts to determine what they could support. But for now, the lack of agreement on the sprawling plan is blocking its progress — and leaving the fate of the infrastructure measure uncertain as well.
Between its inception in January 2017 and its final day on Jan. 3, the GOP-led 115th Congress enacted 442 public laws, the most since the 110th Congress (2007-09).
The last Congress was the first one in more than a decade in which Republicans controlled both the House and Senate while a president of their own party sat in the White House. And while the 115th Congress was more legislatively active than its recent predecessors, the proportion of substantive to ceremonial legislation was much the same, ...
Those ceremonial measures include 109 that renamed post offices, courthouses and the like – a fourth of the Congress’ total legislative output. In our regular assessments of Congress’ ...
In our regular assessments of Congress’ legislative productivity, we’ve cast a wide net regarding what makes a law “substantive.” Basically, anything that makes a change in federal law (however tiny) or authorizes the spending of taxpayer dollars (however few) makes the cut. Besides the measures referred to above on building-renamings, we count laws as “ceremonial” if they award medals, designate special days, authorize commemorative coins or otherwise memorialize historic events. (We exclude entirely “private laws,” which typically exempt a single person from a single provision of general law.)
That practice diminished over the next few years and was largely ended by the 104th Congress in the mid-1990s. Since then, only one Congress has chalked up a lower share of substantive legislation than the just-ended 115th.
Looking back over the past 30 years, the 101st Congress (1989-1991) passed the most laws in total (650) and had the lowest percentage of substantive laws (63%). That’s because it, like many Congresses before, passed dozens of laws designating special observances – National Tap Dance Day, National Quarter Horse Week, National Library Card Sign-Up Month and the like. That practice diminished over the next few years and was largely ended by the 104th Congress in the mid-1990s.
The 115th Congress, notably, ended without funding large chunks of the federal government for the current fiscal year (only five of the 12 regular appropriations bills were passed, in two separate omnibus packages).
When the Senate reconvened at 8 p.m., and the House of Representatives an hour later, the proceedings — including the objection debates — continued, although some lawmakers who had previously planned to vote with ...
The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results. When a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday, they forced an emergency recess in the Congressional proceedings to officially certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The disruption came shortly after some Republican lawmakers made ...