day 15 - leaders and parties in congress

DAY 15 – LEADERS AND PARTIES IN CONGRESS

July 24, 2013

Evolution of the Speakership in the House

Two Great Questions of the Nineteenth Century Civil Rights and Growth

Reed Rules Facilitates majority rule and action. Combats the “Disappearing Quorum”

Current Rules Gingrich’s “Contract with America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4qdcdU723Q Hastert Rule Pelosi’s “Six in ’06”

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/

Current Issues in the House

Debt Limit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE

House Republicans Broken Into Factions http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06

-03/politics/39711961_1_house-republicans-house-speaker-john-a-boehner

Senate Rules

Constitution v. Convention Constitution

Article I, Sec. 3 “The Vice President of the United States shall be

President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”

“The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.”

Senate Rules (Cont’d.)

Convention The filibuster and the “nuclear option”

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/vp/52457909#52457909

Recent filibusters Rand Paul -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEybxccvPk

Evolution of the Majority Leader LBJ – 1955

http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/lbj-charles-halleck-and-the-passage-of-the-civil-rights-bill

http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/albert-thomas-gets-the-johnson-treatmenthttp://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/albert-thomas-gets-the-johnson-treatment