How does Congress “Work”? | Power and Politics in US Government 22 of 30 | Study Hall
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- In Congress, there are a lot of people involved with getting legislation passed. Anyone who’s ever tried to get a consensus in a group chat on what to get for dinner knows that getting everyone on the same page is hard. In this episode, we’ll take a look at how everyone who makes up the structure of the legislative process, from the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, to party leaders and committee chairs, work to create and enact legislation.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:06 - Congressional leaders
4:24 - Congressional committees
7:14 - How committees and congress operate
9:44 - Conclusion
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love your videos. very well-explained and organized👍
“Hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of [Congress].” 😭
Edit: Maybe not for this course, but I'd love to see a video on knowledge management in Congress, and how we got to the point where legislators don't have time to read the bills they're voting on.
The US Congress are on the phone all day with billionaires asking for money. That's their real job.
The title reminded me of Jon Stewart’s 2004 book: “America: A Citizen’s Guide to Demcracy Inaction”. I ought to pull that out again for a laugh. The opening page to the chapter on Congress contains this quote:
“… the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the concurrent resolution and amendments thereto to final adoption without intervening motion except amendments offered by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to achieve mathematical consistency. The concurrent resolution shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question of its adoption.”
_- H. Res. 574 [ Report N. 108-446 ]_
It functions this way because plantation territories refused a purely representative Congress - They could only compete in population if they counted slaves as full people.
Hence the Senate, which gives tiny states inordinate power to obstruct majorities.
Congress and the overall government was meant to be hard to pass laws and would need a bunch of independent representatives to pass. Political parties have restructured the government defined by all intentions of the founding fathers.
Here you can’t explain the congress without recognizing the authority of the political parties. This is what’s wrong.
The filibuster is the tool of minorities. It is incredibly important and has been used to stop or impede many atrocious laws that would otherwise been passed.
The founders were very concerned that the British form of government, with a king who just told people what to do, might lead to tyranny. They would be OK with China having more miles of high-speed train track than the US, because they would value freedom of speech in the US more. The system of checks an balances works precisely as intended.
China was not a country back then, railroads didn't exist. You're making up positions they never could have had. Graduate high school. And don't vote until then.