Legislative Process Research Paper

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American unique legislative process: The House of Representative and the Senate are the two Congress chambers of the United States with 485 members of both chambers which include 100 senators with the Senate, making two senators come from each of the 50 states. The congress members are coming together in order to alter current laws or create new legislation for the country. (The Dirksen Congressional Center. n, d) The U.S Congress is the only independent national organization that initiates legislation, make decisions, and can vote for any executive proposal. For example, since postwar period, the Congress adopted only 6 in 10 presidential initiatives. Furthermore, the slow, complicated, the long trip of ideas to be effective bills, the …show more content…
Many committees and subcommittees need to be involved with any proposal law. Each law is begun with an idea sponsor by a member of Congress. The idea drafted as a bill which assigned to a committee for study. Once the bill released by the committee, it is put on a calendar for vote. When pass by the simple majority, then it assigned by the other committee in the Senate, where it votes again, and once pass, it will go through a conference committee made from House and Senate. After final approval, the bill needs to be sign by the president within 10 days. The Congress can override the president vote by two third majorities even if it is not sign by him (The Legislative Process. n, d). On another hand, the Supreme Court has the constitutional power to check the actions of both the president and the laws that passed by the Congress. However, Court’s power is taken in part from the president power who has the authority for nominates its justice members, and from the Congress, who must agree with these …show more content…
The less coherent legislative parties are still playing an important role in voting system in the Congress. Each nation Congress is divided into three types of organizational arrangements; Centralized, where the decision making is located in the hand of the majority; Decentralized, where it will be beyond the majority party’s leadership, and the fragmented structure, where the legislative power is provided with each individual. The U.S. Congress structure is attributes with all the three types with more fragmented type seen with the Senate (Morone, Ehlke, 2013, p