How Congress Members Vote on Bills and Amendments

Name Instructor Course Date How a member decides to vote Congress has many responsibilities, but one of the most important is that a congress member must vote. Unlike the citizens who cast their votes on the ballot boxes, the congress members cast their votes on a 'yea' or 'nay' on various motions, bills, and amendments on the house floor. Congress is the law-making body in the United States, and it consists of two houses, namely the House of Representatives and the senate. Congress is responsible for making laws then further subjecting them to the president for singing upon where they become laws of the land to govern Americans' lives. In some instances, Congress engages in unique and specialized judicial and electoral functions. For example, times, Congress is forced to act as a judicial body when the president's removal or impeachment is involved. Another instance is that Congress undertakes special services in choosing the president and the vice president in an election. There is no failure to gain the majority of the electoral votes. Congress's legislative work happens in the house when a member of Congress introduces a bill by dropping them in the hopper at the clerk’s desk in the house chamber. Once a bill has been submitted, it is referred to the house committees, then to the sub-committees. after reviewing has been done, it is returned to the full committees for recommendations where they are further taken to the entire house. The bill is then debated on the floor of the house upon where voting is done. If it passes, it is then subjected to the next level for it to become a law. In the amendment of the constitution, Congress is very much involved whereby two-thirds of those present in both the senate and the house must be involved in the voting process. In