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The purpose of the Judicial branch of the government is to decide what laws and policies are constitutional or not.

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The purpose of the executive branch is to enforce laws.

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The purpose of the Legislative branch is to make laws based on the constitution.

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The only structure of this branch at the federal level is the Supreme Court.

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The Structure of the Legislative branch is that it is divided into two parts, the House of Representatives and the senate

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The executive branch is split into three parts. The president, vice president and cabinet.  The cabinet is appointed by the president and then voted by senate. There are 14 people in the cabinet.

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There are no set qualifications to be appointed into the Supreme Court, you just need to be appointed by the president and approved by congress.

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-Member must be at least 25 years old.
-Must have been citizen for 7 years.
- You must be a resident of the state you represent( at the time of election)

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There are nine Supreme justices in the court, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel A. Alito, Jr, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Neil Gorsuch, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Tomas,
and one is the Chief Justice. The current Chief Justice is John Roberts.

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-Must be at least 30 years of age.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen for at least 9 years.
- Must be a resident of the state you represent (at the time of election).

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The president and vice president must be 35 or older, born in the US citizen and had to live in the US for 14 years. There are no set qualifications to be a cabinet member.

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The senate has the sole power to impeach a government official. This would put the executive branch of power in check.

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The Supreme Court is a last resort and their rulings can not be overturned.
They check the other branches by declaring actions of the other branches unconstitutional if they deem it to be.

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The house of Reps can both create new laws and change old laws. In addition to being able to tax and borrow money from foreign powers. The Legislative Branch puts both the Judicial and Executive branch in check.

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Steny Hoyer
Jim Cylbern
Kevin McMarthy
Steve Scalies

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The president's power is to reject, veto and to  propose laws. The president also appoints federal posts.
The vice president can vote in the senate and is there to help the president. Also the vice president can take over for the president if anything happens.
The cabinet doesn't really have much power other then directing government policies and making decisions about national issues.
The executive branch checks over the judicial branch.

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Mitch Mcoconnell
Chuck Schmucker

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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow a rule limiting asylum claims to go into effect nationwide while a lower court ruling blocking it is appealed.

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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow a rule limiting asylum claims to go into effect nationwide while a lower court ruling blocking it is appealed.

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The president is Donald Trump
Vice: Mike Pence
The cabinet:
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler

Attorney General William Barr

Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos

Secretary of Energy James Richard Perry

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao
Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer

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Trump Signs Executive Order to Cancel Student Loan Debt for Thousands of Disabled Veterans

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Dianna Degette represents district 1 from Colorado

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In a call with House Democrats on Friday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he thinks a so-called continuing resolution should extend funding through Nov. 22. | Win McNamee/Getty Images

Five weeks out from the next shutdown deadline, House leaders are already preparing lawmakers for another short-term spending extension that keeps the government running until late November or early December.

Congressional leaders are not expected to pick a firm date for that stopgap until just days - or even hours - away from the Sept. 30 fiscal cliff. But House Democrats are starting to set the realistic expectation of another pre-Christmas funding crunch.

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In a call with House Democrats on Friday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he thinks a so-called continuing resolution should extend funding through Nov. 22. Other top Democrats have predicted that temporary funding patch could go even longer, through Dec. 6, according to senior House aides.

"The Senate is so far behind, we may actually need a short-term CR, which is very unfortunate," House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said in an interview this month. "I can't make a judgment now because they haven't made much progress."

With the doors of the House and Senate locked for legislative business until Sept. 9, lawmakers are left with just 13 workdays before federal funding expires at the end of next month. In the Senate, spending leaders have yet to even introduce a single one of their 12 annual funding bills, let alone mark up or pass them on the floor.

"They have to get moving," Lowey said of her Senate counterparts. "And once they get going - move their bills - we'll be able to sit down and talk about their differences."

Real funding negotiations have been on pause all summer, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin worked to strike a two-year budget deal setting new limits on that spending. While the bipartisan compromise is widely expected to prevent another government shutdown, it came too late for Congress to haggle over the specifics of funding for every department, agency and program of the federal government before the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year.

There is work to do in the House, too. Even though Democrats in that chamber marked up all of their fiscal 2020 spending measures this summer and passed 10 on the floor, they must now readjust funding levels heading into negotiations with the Senate, since the budget deal provided about $15 billion less than they had initially assumed for non-defense programs and about $5 billion more for the Pentagon.

"One would rather not trim anything, but we know we will," Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), who chairs the spending subcommittee that funds the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, said in an interview this month.

Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby has set a goal of enacting the two largest spending bills before the Sept. 30 deadline, taking care of funding for the departments of Defense, Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services. The Alabama Republican has even floated the idea of coupling those two measures with the bill that funds the Department of Energy and water programs, arguing that there is a "nuclear nexus" between programs in the energy legislation and the defense bill.

But Shelby has also said his committee expects to start marking up its spending measures on Sept. 12 - timing that would leave just over two weeks for the divided Congress to reach bicameral compromise on the specifics of funding for the vast majority of the federal government.

It is still unclear whether Senate leaders will try to pass any of their dozen spending measures on the floor before entering into negotiations with their House counterparts on final bills that could get enough votes to move on for President Donald Trump's signature.
Heather Caygle contributed to this report.
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What is Senate Bill S. 2239?

This bill would codify the provisions of Executive Order 13653, which was an Obama-era executive order preparing the U.S. for the impacts of climate change that was subsequently reversed. It had set forth a commitment to ensuring that the federal government identifies and considers climate changes' wide-ranging impact in the development of relevant national security doctrines, policies, and plans. It marked the first time that U.S. security agencies were required to consider climate change in the formulation of national security doctrine.

Executive Order 13653 directed U.S. federal agencies to take steps to help American communities strengthen their resilience to extreme weather and prepare for other effects of climate change. It addressed four task areas:

1. Modernizing Federal Programs to Support Climate Resilient Investment

2. Managing Lands and Waters for Climate Preparedness and Resilience

3. Providing Information, Data, and Tools for Climate Change Preparedness and Resilience

4. Federal Agency Planning for Climate Change Related to Risk

President Trump revoked Executive Order 13653 via his own executive order on energy independence (Executive Order 13783) in March 2017.

Impact

American communities' safety; climate change; climate change mitigation and prevention efforts; climate change-related impacts on American communities' safety and extreme weather resilience; U.S. federal agencies; Executive Order 13653; and Executive Order 13653.

Cost of Senate Bill S. 2239

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In-Depth: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced this bill to codify the provisions of Obama-era Executive Order 13653, which set forth a federal government-wide commitment to identifying and mitigating climate change's wide-ranging impacts.

President Trump revoked Executive Order 13653 on March 28, 2017 via an executive order of his own on promoting energy independence and economic growth ( Executive Order 13783). The order established the Trump administration's policy of promoting the development of domestic energy resources, called for an agency-wide review of all rules related to domestic energy development and rolled back a number or agency rules and executive actions related to energy and climate policy. When he signed the order, Trump said, " I am going to lift the restrictions on American energy, and allow this wealth to pour into our communities."

This legislation doesn't have any cosponsors.

Of Note: In an August 2019 Special Report on Climate Change and Land by the UN Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, experts highlighted how rising global temperatures are increasing pressures on fertile soil and potentially jeopardizing the planet's food security. Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Co-Chair of one of three Working Groups that contributed to the 1,200-page report, also noted that people are already suffering the effects of climate change, saying, " Today 500 million people live in areas that experience desertification. People living in already degraded or desertified areas are increasingly negatively affected by climate change." Working Group Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner stressed that there is " no possibility for anybody to say, 'Oh, climate change is happening and we (will) just adapt to it.' The capacity to adapt is limited."

Due to climate change, the past half-decade is likely to become the warmest five-year stretch in recorded history. On a global scale, even small temperature increases can have major impacts on climates and ecosystems: for example, for every 1ºC increase, air's moisture carrying capacity increases approximately 7% - leading to an uptick in extreme rainfall events. Those events can in turn trigger landslides, increase soil erosion rates and damage crops - and that's only one example of how climate change can cause chain reactions.

Two consecutive Worldwide Threat Assessments under two different Directors of National Intelligence - the first in 2016, issued by James Clapper in the Obama administration, and the second in 2017, issued by Dan Coats in the Trump administration - have called climate change a global security threat that could cause global political instability, adverse health conditions, humanitarian crises, political unrest, and more.

In June 2019, Sen. Klobuchar - who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination - released a list of over 100 actions she'd take via executive order in her first 100 days as president. The list included a number of actions related to climate change.

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Summary by Lorelei Yang(Photo Credit: iStockphoto.com / DisobeyArt)

A bill to codify an Executive order preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change, and for other purposes.

Official Title

A bill to codify an Executive order preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change, and for other purposes.

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This bill would codify the provisions of Executive Order 13653, which was an Obama-era executive order preparing the U.S. for the impacts of climate change that was subsequently reversed. It had set forth a commitment to ensuring that the federal government identifies and considers climate changes' wide-ranging impact in the development of relevant national security doctrines, policies, and plans.