House of Representatives : Savannah, Joseph, Daniel, Michele by Savannah Bernal https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq 12.4.1 Discuss Article I of the Constitution as it relates to the legislative branch, including eligibility for office and lengths of terms of representatives and senators; election to office; the roles of the House and Senate in impeachment proceedings; the role of the vice president; the enumerated legislative powers; and the process by which a bill becomes a law. This padlet relates to this standard because it demonstrates how the House of Representatives represents the people, not the states. 12.4.3 Identify the current representatives in the legislative branch of the national government. This padlet relates to this standard because the U.S. Congress is responsible for making the country's laws. en-us 2018-10-31 15:44:31 UTC 2024-07-15 13:23:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Qualifications jokeun01787 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299047243 - Be at least twenty-five years old
- Have been a citizen of the United   States for the past seven years
- Be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state they represent.

- Joseph K.

12.4.6]]> 2018-10-31 15:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299047243 What it is... damora03954 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299048107 The other part of Congress is the U. S. Senate. There are maximum 435 members in the United States House of Representatives. These members are called U. S. Representatives or just representatives.

- Daniel M.

12.4.6]]> 2018-10-31 15:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299048107 Current member of House for Riverside + #District sabern60540 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299048965 Mark Takano is the current member of the House in Riverside, California. Takano is the 41st District. Mark Allan Takano is an American politician who has been the United States Representative for California's 41st congressional district since 2013. Being a member of the Democratic Party, Takano has served on the Riverside Community College Board of Trustees since 1990.

- Savannah B. 

12.4.3]]> 2018-10-31 15:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299048965 Research 1 current event for Riverside district from website of Congressman of this district sabern60540 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299049574 In Riverside County, "just a teacher" vs. 25 year congressman in 42nd District, wants to teach her opponent, and the political world, a lesson about beating the odds.  Calvert, 65, hasn’t had much reason to worry on election night. He’s won his last five general elections with an average of 59 percent of the vote, the last close contest being 2008, when he beat Democrat Bill Hedrick 51-to-49 percent in a district that was redrawn in 2011.

- Savannah B.

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]]> 2018-10-31 15:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299049574 Elections damora03954 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299050527 Elections for representatives are held in every even-numbered year, on Election Day the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. By law, Representatives must be elected from single-member districts. After a census is taken (in a year ending in 0), the year ending in 2 is the first year in which elections for U.S. House districts are based on that census (with the Congress based on those districts starting its term on the following Jan. 3). 

- Daniel M.

12.7.6]]> 2018-10-31 15:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299050527 Wesberry v. Sanders jokeun01787 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299051736
Wesberry v. sanders was a case decided by the Supreme court of the united states  in 1964. Wesberry alleged that the population of the Georgia's Fifth Congressional District, his home district, was two to three times larger than that of other districts in the state, thereby diluting the impact of his vote relative to other Georgia residents in violation of the United states. On February 17, 1964, the court ruled 6-3 in favor of Wesberry.

- Joseph K.

12.5.3]]> 2018-10-31 16:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299051736 Salary damora03954 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299052239 A representative makes $174,000 dollars a year.

- Daniel M.

12.4.3]]> 2018-10-31 16:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299052239 Length of Term miorti01314 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299052673 House of Representatives serves two years and is considered for re-election every even year. 

- Michele A.]]> 2018-10-31 16:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299052673 damora03954 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299057678 2018-10-31 16:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299057678 Congressional Districts and Gerrymandering miorti01314 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299847869 - Gerrymandering is a practice of political corruption that attempts to establish a political advantage for a political party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create an electoral advantag . 

- Gerrymandering has been a  very common practice throughout history and still continues to be an issue today.

- Michele A.]]> 2018-11-02 15:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299847869 Apportionment -Reapportionment Act of 1929 miorti01314 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299850367 - Set a ''permanent'' size of the house at 435 members 
- Each house member represents 700,000 people 
- Following each Census, the Census Bureau would determine the number of seats each states should have 
- Bureau sends plans to congress 
- Both house must approve the plan 

- Michele A.

12.6.4 ]]> 2018-11-02 15:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/299850367 United States House of Representatives jokeun01787 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/301081329 2018-11-06 16:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/301081329 10 Facts of the House of Representatives sabern60540 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/301630514 - It is big: 435 members
- Represents the people, not states 
- Tax bills start here
- Two year term
- Least stringent requirements of     federal elected office
- Congressional investigations and oversight
- Divided by Committee 
- Speaker is elected by House
- Impeachment 
- 19 Presidents

- Savannah B.

12.4.6]]> 2018-11-07 16:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/301630514 Mid-term Elections jokeun01787 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302177533 Democrats seized control of the house while Republicans held the Senate on Tuesday in a national referendum on President Trump that drew record numbers of voters to the polls and opened the door to tougher oversight of the White House over the next two years.

- Joseph K.

12.4.6 ]]> 2018-11-08 16:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302177533 What is unique about the House of Representatives? sabern60540 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302181611 The House has several many powers assigned exclusively to it, including the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach federal officials, and elect the President in the case of an electoral college tie. The Senate is composed of 100 Senators, 2 for each state.

- Savannah B.

12.4.3]]> 2018-11-08 16:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302181611 Difference between senate and house of representatives miorti01314 https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302198081 The senate represents large and small states equally with two senators per state while each states share of the 435 representatives in the house is determined by popularity. ]]> 2018-11-08 17:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sabern60540/6lecabxp28xq/wish/302198081