POL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Democratic Study Group, Secret Ballot, United States House Committee On Rules
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How does this afect the way congress operates: foundaions. *separaion of house and senate (bicameral legislaion as set up by madison. The two houses of congress difer : the house is majoritarian, the senate is more deliberaive. Paries and commitees are the key organizing structures in congress. These diferences afect the way that they operate, and how the legislaive process does, and does not occur: step 1: ciizens, mcs, presidents, and interest groups conceive of legislaion, step 2: mcs sponsor (write) (and cosponsor) legislaion. *discharge peiion: the senate majority leader asks for a unanimous consent agreement or a moion to proceed. This occurs with 10% of bills (the most controversial). Most bills are passed without changes (70%), or they are ping-ponged via amendment (20%). I: signs the bill, *no line-item veto, *signing statements, doesn"t sign the bill. i. Diferent modes of elecion (rounded) populaion of the 50 states (2010 census): 310,000,000. Number of representaives: *435 (rounded) current raio: 1:711,000.
