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Title: Beyond Legislation: What Else Does Congress Do?


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Beyond Legislation What Else Does Congress Do?
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Today
  • Constituency Service
  • Oversight
  • Investigation
  • Impeachment
  • Advice and Consent

3
Constituency Service
  • Critical tool for reelection part of the
    incumbency advantage

4
Oversight
  • The flip side of the hearings during the
    legislative process
  • Making sure your laws are being enforced the way
    you want them to be enforced
  • If theyre not
  • Amend the law to make your intent more clear
  • Change/cut/increase funding

5
Investigations
  • Must be related to an area in which you might
    conceivably legislate, but scope can be broad
  • House Un-American Activities Committee and
    communism
  • House Government Reform Committee and steroids in
    baseball
  • Subpoena witnesses, jail for contempt

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Impeachment
  • President, VP, Executive Officials, Federal
    Judges
  • Two steps
  • Impeachment by House of Representatives
  • Majority required for impeachment
  • Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson actually
    impeached
  • Trial by the Senate (w/ Chief Justice presiding)
  • 2/3 vote required for conviction
  • No president has ever been removed by this means
  • Can only remove someone from office, no other
    penalty

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Advice and Consent The Role of the Senate
  • Presidential appointments require Senate consent
  • Majority approval required
  • Federal judges
  • All major executive officials
  • Treaties also require Senate consent
  • 2/3 approval required
  • Presidents frequently bypass by using an
    executive agreement instead
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