The Legislative Branch by Ezabella Hernandez Owens

Article I

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According to Discovery Ed, the Legislative Branch is explained in Article I of the United States Constitution.

Definition

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The Legislative Branch is the Branch of government that makes laws. The legislative branch is also known as Congress. This information is found in the Discovery Ed definition of the Legislative Branch.

Where the legislative branch works

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The Legislative branch works either at a member's office in Washington D.C or in the home state office. Other places that you could work in are the congressional committees that are also located in D.C. This is found in the article, "Working in the Legislative Branch."

How the Legislative jobs and roles are organized

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In the Legislative Branch, there are two parts it is separated into. The house of representatives and the U.S senate. These two parts or what they call it, institutions, have their own roles in Congress.

How many members are there?

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Since the Legislative Branch is split into two, each of the institutions have their own number of members. For the House of Representatives, there are 435 members. The reason being is that each state has at least one of the representatives. Which are decided by the state's population. While for the U.S Senate, there are 100 members. With each state being represented by 2 senators.

Is anyone in charge?

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While there isn't a single person in charge, the Legislative Branch is instead led by the U.S Congress. Even though there isn't a single person who leads the Legislative Branch, there is leadership of the houses. The speaker of the House Representatives who leads over the house and the vice president who leads the Senate. There is also majority and minority leaders who lead their individual parties.

Power

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The main power the Legislative Branch or Congress, would be creating laws. But not only that, they could also declare war, the right to reject or accept the president's appointments.

How to get the jobs

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To be able to get on Congress, you will have to be chosen through direct election. For the job for the House of Representatives and U.S Senator, it'll be a regular election.

The qualifications and requirements needed

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To serve in the Legislative Branch as a State Senator you'll have to be 18 to 30 years old. While for a state representative you have to be 18 to 25 years old. The requirements to be a state legislator are that you have to be a district resident for 1 year in most states, a State resident for 30 days between 5 years, you have to be US citizen in most states, and you'll have to be a registered voter. These requirements are also the qualifications you'll need to be in the Legislative Branch.

Names of members

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The names of the Arizona Senators are Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, both of these senators are democrats. As for our state representatives there are 9 in total. Yassamin Ansari, Greg Stanton, Raul Grjalva, Paul Gosar, Elijah Crane, Andy Biggs, Juan Ciscomani, Abraham Hamadeh, and David Schweikert.