Legislative+Branch

Legislative Branch
Info to have in your notes over the Legislative Branch: Constitutional Powers, Apportionment and Redistricting, Organization-power/pecking order, Committee system*lots to know, How Congress Decides, Incumbency Adv./election costs Seniority System, Party Caucus, Caucus, Oversight, Hearings, Filibuster/cloture, Pork barrel/Earmark, Riders, Quorum, Nuclear option, Sunshine laws, Markup, Advice & Consent, Demographics of, Casework,Polarized politics, caucus

Legislative Branch Information This website provides updates and stories to what is currently going on in Congress as well as contains an archive of past issues. This website is nonpartisan and hopes to provide relevant information to the public to encourage civil involvement. Lots of good info! This is a table of some statistics of members in the House of Reps and Congress.

House of Representatives

 * legislative body made of elected representatives based on population
 * 435 members
 * Here is a great video from hippocampus dealing with the structure of the House of Representatives.
 * Structure of House of Representatives

Senate

 * legislative body consisting fo 100 Senators, two from each state
 * most prestigious House
 * deals with Presidential appointments, treaties, and impeachment trials
 * structure is similar to that of the House of Representatives, but has mroe free reign (filibuster)
 * This video explains the structure of the Senate

**Nebraska State Legislature:**
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 * only unicameral body in the nation
 * Nebraska initially had a bicameral legislature, but the Constitution was amended in 1934, disposing of the House of Representatives and leaving just the senate
 * new legislature proposed by George Norris
 * nonpartisan body-no party affiliations
 * smallest number of senator/legislative districts
 * 49 districts are represented

[|this site has a lot of information on all the branches. It also has videos and articles on what is happening in politics and they provide a blog for discussions.]

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