THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

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THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

• Government with Garbrick

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What Does It Do?

• Makes laws

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Where is it found in the Constitution?

• Article 1

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What is our national lawmaking body called?
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CONGRESS
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United States Congress
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What are the qualifications to be in the United
States House of Representatives?

• 25 years old
• 7 years a citizen
• resident of the state

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The United States House of Representatives

• 435 members
• 2 year terms

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Who is the leader of the House?

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Pelosi

• First woman to hold the position of Speaker of
  the House
• Represents a district in San Francisco
• Her father used to be mayor of Baltimore

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Who are the other leaders of the House of
Representatives?

• Majority Leader (Democrat) Steny Hoyer
• Minority (Republican) Leader
• John Boehner

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Minority Leader John Boehner (Bay-ner),

• Became majority leader 2/2006
• born 1949
• represents a district in Cincinnati, Ohio
• One of 12 brothers and sisters

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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer

• Represents a district in Maryland
• Law degree from Georgetown
• Won majority leaders position in 2006/7 over
  Rep. John Murtha

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Who represents us in the U.S. House? (Southern
Indiana Borough and Eastern White Township)

• John Murtha
• 12th Congressional District
• born 1932 in Westmoreland County
• U.S. Marine
• Pitt grad
• in House since 1974

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If you live in the rest of Indiana Area School
District

• Bill Shuster
• Born in McKeesport in 1961
• Lives in Hollidaysburg
• First elected in special election 2001
• attended Dickinson College in Carlisle B.A. in
  Political Science and History.
• Masters of Business Administration from American
  University in Washington, D.C.
• owned and operated car dealership

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U.S. Senate
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Senate

• The upper house
• 100 members
• 2 from each state
• 6 year terms

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What are the qualifications to be in the Senate?

• 30 years old
• 9 years a citizen
• Resident of state they represent

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Who is the leader of the Senate?

• Vice President Joe Biden
• He votes only in the case of a tie.

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Who is second in charge of the Senate?

• President Pro Tempore
• Robert Byrd
• From WV

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Robert Byrd

• Born 1917
• Mother died when he was one raised by aunt and
  uncle
• First elected to the Senate in 1958
• Third longest serving member of Congress
• Earned law degree while serving in Congress

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Who are other Senate officers?

• Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
• R-KY

• Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nevada

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Who has the real power?

• Majority Leader Harry Reid

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Who represents Pennsylvania in the United States
Senate?

• 1. Senior Senator Arlen Specter
• 2 Junior Senator Bob Casey

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Arlen Specter

• born in Wichita, KS, on Feb. 12, 1930, and grew
  up in the small town of Russell, KS.
• graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of
  Pennsylvania
• lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Joan.

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Junior Senator Bob Casey

• Senator since 2007
• Oldest son of former governor
• Born and raised in Scranton