Bicameralism 10 marker
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- Created on: 05-04-18 09:45
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- Bicameralism
- Congress has two chambers
- Senate
- House of Reps
- Powers of the House
- Initiates money bills
- FFs believed that the peoples direct reps should decide how to spend the peoples money
- Power of impeachment
- Any member of the executive or judicial branch
- It has used this power 19 times since 1789
- The most recent was Federal Judge Thomas Porteous in 2010
- Bill Clinton 1998.
- Elect the president if the electoral college is deadlocked
- Only been used twice in 1800 and 1824
- Initiates money bills
- Powers of the Senate
- Confirm presidential appointments
- Done by a simple majority vote
- In 2013, Obama replaced the resigning Secretary of state Hilary Clinton, with John Kerry by 94-3.
- Senatorial courtesy allows a president to confer with a senator from his party before making a appointment that may affect their state.
- Ratify treaties
- Senate is fully informed throughout the process.
- In 2010 the senate voted 71 to 26 to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treat between Obama and his Russia counterpart Dmitry Medvedev
- Elect the VP if electoral college is deadloacked
- Try the case of impeachment.
- Acquitted Clinton in 1999.
- Confirm presidential appointments
- Concurrent powers
- Both have to agree the same version of a bill.
- Both houses have to vote a 2/3rd majority to override a veto.
- The same 23rd by each house has to be reached for constitutional amendments
- In 2007, Congress overrode Bush's veto on the Water Resources Development Bill by 381-40 and 81-12.
- Both must concur in a declaration of war
- The 25th amendment gave both houses the power to confirm the newly appointed vice president
- Ford 1973 and Rockefeller 1974
- Importance and prestige
- The senate is seen to be more powerful.
- In 2013 there were 52 former house members in the senate but no ex-senators in the house.
- Senators represent the entire state and serve longer terms
- Senators are only 1 in 100
- The senate is seen as a recruiting pool for presidents and VPs
- The both have equal power in passages of legislation and members both houses are paid the same salary
- The senate is seen to be more powerful.
- Congress has two chambers
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