Representation Of Congress

1. There are many ways in how a congress person can represent the American people. There are two kinds of representation for a congress person, which are sociological and agency. Sociological is type of representation, in where representatives have the same cultural background or traits as their constituents. For example, if a congress person has the same ethnic as their constituents, the people will feel that they are well representative at national level. The second principle is called Agency representation, which is a type of representation where the constituents have the power to hire and fire the representatives of their state. I believe that Agency representation is the best for the people because the constituents have power to choose
their representatives and to punish them for failing to represent. Hence, when we trustee someone, we are put him in charge to do the right thing on behalf of our doing. While, a delegate is chosen to represent the majority public opinion of our constituents
2. There are two factor that play in important role in the electoral system that determines who gets elected and what they do during office. First, we have the Incumbency Advantage, which provides to their constituents with serves to ensure they are reelected in next elections. The incumbents develop a special relationship with constituents, so they are guarantee to hold office. As incumbency, their job is to hear every single individual problems, so they can create a type of communication with the people. I think this is one of the best common practice that we see today. It’s important that a congress person cares about their constituents, because the people are the ones who select them. Secondly, we have redistricting, which effects the representation of an state depending on the population. Every ten years we have the census that determines the number of the house seats. Since the number of seats is set to 435, some states losses a seat due to the decrease on population. In fact, some states gains seats because the population has increased. Losing a seat in the house is terrible because the state is losing a representative or a electoral vote. In addition, there are some of the ways in which a member of Congress can aid their state via direct patronage. A congress person can benefit their constituents through, grants, civil serves jobs, government contractors, and so on. A direct patronage is often called the pork barrel because is funded within specific district. This not only benefits the constituents but also the congress person because he/she is gaining the trust of the people to be reelected.
3. During the Great Compromise the framers created a Bicameral legislature. The organizational structure of the house of Representative is differences from the Senate. The Congress is composed of two chambers. Hence, in the lower chamber we have the House of Representative and in the upper is the Senate. A Senator can serve two terms of six years, while a representative can only serve two terms of four years. When it comes to representation to their constituents, the House represents them locally, while the Senate are local and statewide. The members of the house are often seeking for reelection, so they serve as agent for local interest. In this case a representative will try to pass an specific legislature that would help their constituents. On the other hand, a Senator serve large and more heterogeneous constituencies. Since a senators have a long term in office, they are not worry for seeking reelections. They are better agents than the house because they attend to be more well organized on local and statewide.
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The process of how bill becomes a law through the structure Congress. The institutional structure of Congress is one of the factor that helps shape the legislative process. Secondly, the importance of equally is another factor that rules of congressional procedure. These are two factor that are needed to introduce a bill. A bill can originate from the House or the Senate, but only the House can introduce money bills. Once the bill is introduced, it is referred to the committee where the bill is examined. If the committee does not act quickly the bill die. In fact, most of the bills die in the committee system. Later, the bill is referred to the subcommittee for study and hearing, where experts or other public offices support the legislation. After the hearing is complete the bill is label as ‘mark up”, where the committee makes some changes. Once the “mark up” is completed the committee have to make a report of the bill, where the committee votes for recommendations to the house or the senate. This is where the voting and the debate take place. Once the senate or the House pass the bill, the bill is referred to another chamber of committee. This chamber may approve or rejected. If is pass, the bill is taken to the conference committee action, where the Senate and the House must come to an agree if they want the bill to pass. When both house reach an agree, the president must sign it, in order the bill to become law. If the president does not take action during the take
days the bill becomes automatically becomes law. But also the president has the power of veto. If the president vetoes the bill, the congress must take actions to override the veto with 2/3 votes in both house.
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The Senate and the house are able to check each other by rejecting bills that were introduce in one of the houses. I think the senate has more authority over the executive branch because the senate is capable of passing laws by overriding the president veto. In addition, the Senate approves the presidents appointments. The only power that the executive branch has is the president veto. If congress wants to pass a law, but the somewhat the president refuses to sign it. Congress must vote to override the veto of the
president.