The Effects of a Government Shutdown Government shutdowns have been around for what seems like a long time but really, quite hasn’t been. They can come in many different lengths and severities. In this paper I will be researching the causes, effects, and the processes uses to resolve a government shutdown. Causes of a government shutdown may vary slightly but every previous shutdown have been caused by a spending bill or funding issue (Matthews). However, for the most part main causes of shutdowns are quite balanced between a presidents refusing to sign a bill or vetoing a bill and congress failing to approve a budget to propose to the president to sign (Longley).
However, looking at the statistics such as Bill Clintons presidency, in the first 2 years which was a united government, Congress exercised limited oversight, and when needed to, asked softball questions, however , when Republicans took over Congress, things got much harder as they seek to hold the President to account, and after a while, impeach. Although this shows that things are more different when it is a united or divided government, Congress still has a task to do in which they must do oversight on President, so, it being united or divided government should not affect the task Congress are suppose to do, as they are an independent
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When the Labour government implemented these laws they protected traditional parliamentary sovereignty. Unlike Germany or the USA where judges can annul legislations that are found to be in breach of the human rights act. In the UK however judges can only issue a declaration of incompatibility which sends the legislation back to parliament so that they can make changes to suit the HRA. It is difficult to declare on this subject whether or not there have been enough reforms on the Human Rights Act as through one viewpoint it is important to sometimes evade Human Rights to catch potential terrorists on the other hand millions of people have had to sacrifice their right to private life as has been found with the major scandal of NSA spying on internet records. Some people may argue that if you have nothing to hide you should not fear however people still should be able to have
On the other hand, the House of Lords is not elected but is made up of a wide variety of people with different background and specialised expertise therefore allowing decisions that are made to be less biased and more thorough. Acts of Parliament, otherwise known as primary legislation, will progress through the House of Lords and the House of Commons regardless of which house a Bill was first raised and the five stages that it has to go through in each house include intense scrutiny. This is an advantage as the public knows that there is a great amount of detail and consideration going in to these stages to make a brand new law. The scrutiny in making these laws is intense and every stage is thoroughly gone through. A key advantage of the legislative process is that it is strongly controlled by the Government, and the bigger the Government’s majority the greater that control.
However, the filibuster can block the legislation process if it is not used properly. For example, the Senate Republicans have used the filibuster to slow down the Senate for its intent to aid the electoral fortunes of the Republican Party,
All that was needed to change this legislation was pass an amendment through the two houses of parliament; The Senate and the House of Representatives. There was some support from both Labor and Liberal to pass the legislation through to the Senate, but Billy Hughes (The prime minister) knew there was not enough support in the Senate. To overcome this, Billy Hughes held a national vote on the problem. The public were asked, Are you in favour of the Government having, in this grave emergency, the same compulsory powers over citizens in regard to requiring their military service, for the term of this War, outside the Commonwealth, as it now has in regard to military service within the Commonwealth? The results were extremely close, with conscription being rejected 51 to 49 per cent.
June 6, 2013 Gun Control Although the matter of gun control and the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is very well known and provokes large amounts of controversy, it is to note that there is fairly limited academic literature about public opinion about the subject. Some of the reference material is older, but it is important to note that gun control perspectives have barely changed over time. The two sides constantly struggle to find common ground in the legislation that is approved across the country, for example the “conservative” supporters of gun control base their opinions on the right to bear arms express in the Second Amendment, while the more “liberal” parties challenge those rights on the basis of historical and cultural changes to the country’s culture. Events as the recent school mass shootings in Connecticut, have served as a reignited factor in this disputes, with both sides arguing on the legality of ownership, type and access of these guns to the general population. The resulting arguments have conclude that the majority of public opinion have constantly held the dual position of accepting some form of gun control and/or registration, which limits access to firearms while simultaneously rejecting a complete ban or severe restrictions on gun possession.
If it the new law happens to do that then great. There was only one problem though when they went to pass this law. They did not examine the issues of Tort Cases contributing the rising cost of health care. Now I have some opinions on why this was done, one would be that Tort Lawyers like Ms. Allred are big contributors to the democratic party, and the democratic party was the party responsible for passing this massive bill thru congress, and the senate, with a democratic president signing off on it. That is only my opinion though, and I will go ahead and try to include some fact in this paper instead of just throwing in my opinion all the time, Key word being try, but I should be able to make it happen.
Both houses have to pass a bill before it becomes a law. An other advantage is allows for representation on a reasonably equitable footing for both large and small states. Only the House can impeach a President or executive officer in government. Then the Senate plays judge and jury in all impeachments bought on by the House. The disadvantages are the recurrent gridlock seen in Congress, even if the a House passes a bill it still has to go to the Senate.