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Chapter Thirteen
Congress
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Congress• If progress is defined as moving forward and achieving gradual betterment, what is congress?
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The Evolution of Congress
• The intent of the Framers:–To oppose the concentration of
power in a single institution–To balance large and small states
• Bicameralism
• They expected Congress to be the dominant institution.
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House, Senate, or Both?
• 100 Members• Must be a resident of the state
they represent• Popularly elected• Must be a US citizen for 9 years• More women (percentage wise)• Provide “advice and consent”
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House, Senate, or Both?
• Can attach non germane riders onto bills.
• More policy-specific• Higher cost of election• 2 year term• More rules that govern the
chamber’s collective behavior
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House, Senate, or Both?
• More elite• Fewer members of color
(percentage wise)• More foreign affairs power• VPOTUS• Represent a larger constituency• Power to remove federal judges
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House, Senate, or Both?
• Filibuster• Could have 100% turnover on
election day• More likely to be re-elected• Fewer staff members• Democrat• Revenue bills must originate here
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House, Senate, or Both?
• Rank and file members earn $174,000 per year
• Franking privilege• Must be 25
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Organization of the House
• Historically, power struggles have occurred between members and leadership
• 1994 brought changes:–Committee chairs hold positions for only 6 years
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Organization of the House
• Reduced the number of committees and subcommittees
• The Speaker dominated the selection of committee chairs
• The Speaker set the agenda (Contract with America) and sustained high Republican discipline in 1995
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Evolution of the Senate
• The Senate escaped many of the tensions encountered by the House
• The major struggle in the Senate was about how its members should be chosen; 17th amendment (1913)
• The filibuster is another major issue: restricted by Rule 22 (1917), which allows a vote of cloture
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Who is in Congress?• The House has become less
male and less white• Membership in Congress
became a career• Incumbents still have a great
electoral advantage• But in 1994, voters opposed incumbents
due to budget deficits, various policies, legislative-executive bickering, and scandal
• In 2010, voters opposed incumbents due to.........
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COMPARING THE HOUSE & SENATE
HOUSE SENATE435 Number of Members 100
2 Years Length of Term 6 Years
25 Years Minimum Age 30 Years
By Population Representation /States EqualMany Rules Organization Few
Rules - Formal - Less Formal
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Grassley Harkin
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4th - Steve King (R)
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Table 13.1: Blacks, Hispanics, and Women in Congress, 1971-2002
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HOUSE SENATE112th Congress
56.7 Years Average Age 62.2 Years
Aaron Schock, R-IL 29 Youngest
Oldest Ralph Hall, R - TX 87
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EDUCATION LEVELS -
112th Congress Law Degree - 237
Medical Degree - 16Doctoral Degree - 22
Master's Degree - 143Bachelor's Degree - 499
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Quick Facts on the
112th Congress 17 Women in the Senate - The most ever!
13 Jews in the Senate0 African American in the Senate44 African American in the House
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The Incumbency Advantage
• Media coverage is higher for incumbents• Incumbents have greater name recognition
due to franking, travel to the district, news coverage
• Members secure policies and programs for voters
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Figure 13.2: Percentage of Incumbents Reelected to Congress
Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi, Vital Statistics on American Politics, 1999-2000 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000), table 1-18; 2004 updated by Marc Siegal.
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Member Behavior
• Representational view: members vote to please their constituents, in order to secure re-election
• Organizational view: where constituency interests are not vitally at stake, members primarily respond to cues from colleagues
• Attitudinal view: the member’s ideology determines her/his vote
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Party Structure in the Senate
• President pro tempore presides; this is the member with most seniority in majority party (a largely honorific office)
• Leaders are the majority leader and the minority leader, elected by their respective party members
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Party Structure in the Senate
• Party whips: keep leaders informed, round up votes, count noses
• Each party has a policy committee: schedules Senate business, prioritizes bills
• Committee assignments are handled by a group of Senators, each for their own party
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Party Structure in the House
• Speaker of the House is leader of majority party and presides over House
• Majority leader and minority leader: leaders on the floor
• Party whips keep leaders informed and round up votes
• Committee assignments and legislative schedule are set by each party
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Speaker of the House
John Boehner
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House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi
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President of the Senate
Joe Biden
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Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid
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Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell
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Congressional Caucuses
• Caucus: an association of members of Congress created to advocate a political ideology or a regional or economic interest
• Intra-party caucuses: members share a similar ideology
• Personal interest caucuses: members share an interest in an issue
• Constituency caucuses: established to represent groups, regions or both
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Committees
• Committees are the most important organizational feature of Congress
• Consider bills or legislative proposals
• Maintain oversight of executive agencies
• Conduct investigations
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Types of Committees
• Standing committees: basically permanent bodies with specified legislative responsibilities
• Select committees: groups appointed for a limited purpose and limited duration
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Types of Committees
• Joint committees: those on which both representatives and senators serve
• Conference committee: a joint committee appointed to resolve differences in Senate and House versions of the same piece of legislation before final passage
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Committee Practices
• The number of committees has varied; significant cuts in number of House committees in 1995, and in the number of House and Senate subcommittees
• Majority party has majority of seats on the committees and names the chair
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Congressional Staff
• Constituency service is a major task of members’ staff
• Legislative functions of staff include devising proposals, negotiating agreements, organizing hearings, and meeting with lobbyists and administrators
• Members’ staff consider themselves advocates of their employers
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Figure 13.4: The Growth in Staffs of Members and Committees in Congress,
1930-2000
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How a Bill Becomes a Law
• Bill must be introduced by a member of Congress
• Bill is referred to a committee for consideration by either Speaker or presiding officer of the Senate
• Revenue bills must originate in the House
• Most bills die in committee
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How a Bill Becomes a Law
• After hearings and mark-up sessions, the committee reports a bill out to the House or Senate
• Bill must be placed on a calendar to come for a vote before either house
• House Rules Committee sets the rules for consideration
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How a Bill Becomes a Law
• Bills are debated on the floor of the House or Senate
• If there are major differences in the bill as passed by the House and Senate, a conference committee is appointed
• The bill goes to the president
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How a Bill Becomes Law
• The president may sign it• If the president vetoes it, it
returns to house of origin• Both houses must support the
bill, with a two-thirds vote, in order to override the president’s veto
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Post 9-11 Congress
• 9-11 Commission recommended Congress make fundamental changes in how it oversees agencies involved in intelligence-gathering and counter-terrorism
• Congress passed some of those proposals after some opposition in both parties
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Reapportionment & Redistricting• Decennial census occurs and the
official population of each state is determined.
• Pretend the 435 Representatives are a deck of cards.–Each state gets dealt 1 card–States get additional cards in
proportion to their population.–The dealing of the deck is called
reapportionment.
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Redistricting• The next step is for each state to
redraw the congressional districts inside this state so the population is equal in each district. This is called redistricting.
• Westberry v. Sanders (1964) affirmed that legislative districts must be redrawn to best reflect one-person, one-vote principle.
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Texas Two StepGerrymandering Southern Style
• DeLay’s PAC helped the GOP with the Texas Statehouse for the first time in 130 years.
• The newly Republican Legislature redrew the lines to the R’s benefit.
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Texas Redistricting Plan 2002
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Powers of Congress
• Expressed Powers vs. Implied Powers• McCulloch V. Maryland• Marshall and the SCOTUS judged that
the BOTUS was “necessary and proper”• Elastic Clause - A.1, S.8, C. 18• You should know major Congressional
Powers - A theme has been to know formal vs. informal powers of the Institutions of Government.