congress fill its legislative function Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
chambers ability to delay bills, scrutiny
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- senate filibuster, talk down bill prevent it getting passed
- longest 24hr 18min prevented civil rights act 1957
-obamas DREAM act constantly filibustered - problematic = reformed
- amount needed to pass cloture motion was reduced + votes needed to end fili now simple majority
2
Q
does not fulfil, disfunctional due to advantages given to those who wish to block change
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- reforms for fili not significant enough
- divided 117th cong biden struggling to advance leg such as john lewis voting rights act, schumer put forward a filibuster to defeat it
- senator tuberville place hold on military appointments due to abortion funding that he didn’t support
- obamas dream act fili, led to him using exec orders to achieve some of his policy goals and avoid scrutiny
- to avoid fili need bipartisan support, rare in era of polarisation
3
Q
increase in bipartisanship means function can be fulfilled
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- FF intended legislative process to be difficult, legislative quality is more important than leg output
- need bi party and bi cameral support due to SOP
- promotes limited gov over dictatorship
- bipartisan laws still passed such as gun control bill, most signif fire arms leg intro tougher checks on guns
- support of 14 GOP and democs
4
Q
increase in hyperpartisanship, less likely to cooperate and compromise
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- gridlock
- voting rights leg stalled in the senate 2022 due to GOPs failure to except expansion of voting rights
- budget shutdowns were due to lack of bi for budget, cost the US taxpayer
- 2013, 2018, 2019
5
Q
party factionalism also impact leg
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- 2023 GOP maj house, 30 right wing members voted against kevin mccarthy to succeed pelosi to be speaker of the house
- many anti mccarthy members of GOP are also against fed gov and wanted to bring washington to a standstill as it could not perform its functions without its presiding officer in place
