Appropriations bills have to get passed every year or the government shuts down. Because these bills are so important, it forces Congress to compromise. If you want your issue to break through, find out what appropriations subcommittee oversees your cause and advocate for more funding. You'll have a better chance at success, and the extra funds have the potential to make a big difference for your issue.
This is the reason why appropriations committees have the highest number of lobbyists working on their issues. We learned earlier that members of Congress focus on re-election and have little time for other things. So, you might ask, how do laws get passed and how do things get done? The answer is the Congressional Staffers! Staffers are very influential in Congress and are the ones to speak with when you want to influence the legislative process. They can give advice on how their member of Congress would vote, they make decisions on what should and should not be included in the legislative text, and they make recommendations about what you should be focusing your attention on accomplishing.
Congressional staffers are also extremely influential because they work with staffers in other offices and can introduce you to the right person you need to be speaking with on your specific issue. If influencing your member of Congress is the most effective way to get something done on Capitol Hill, then influencing his or her professional staff is a close second. The best advocates know that limiting your focus to the United States Congress is shortsighted. Political appointees like cabinet officials and agency leaders are also important to target in your advocacy efforts.
They enact a lot of changes that do not require a new law or an act of Congress. Folks in the Senior Executive Service can sometimes be even better targets. List of United States Senate Classes. Qualifications for Entering Congress: House: Must be 25 years of age when seated, not when elected. Must have been a citizen of the United States for 7 years.
Must be an inhabitant of the state from which elected. NOTE: custom, but not the Constitution, requires that a representative live in the district that he or she represents.
Senate: Must be 30 years of age when seated, not when elected. Must have been a citizen of the United States for 9 years. Congressional Leadership I. Selected by majority party. Usually most senior member of the Senate majority party. Majority Whip. Policy Committee. Reviews legislative proposals and makes recommendations to senators of the majority party. Steering Committee. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;. To provide and maintain a Navy;.
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;.
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District not exceeding ten Miles square as may, by Cession of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; --And.
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Section 9. No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census of Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
By law, its current membership is set at Representatives, plus nonvoting delegates from the District of Columbia and the U. The House possesses the sole authority to impeach federal officials and, in the case of indecisive Electoral College results, to elect a president. While revenue and spending bills traditionally originate in the House, the Senate may amend them as with any other piece of legislation.
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