Ans of 10Questions: What is job of the Congress?

Ans of 10Questions:

1. What is job of the Congress?

The job of Congress is pass laws (Before a law is passed, it is called a bill. In order to become a law, a bill must be approved by a majority of each house of Congress and by the president. If the president vetoes (disapproves of) a bill, it can still become law if at least two-thirds of the members of each house of Congress override the veto by voting for it when it is voted on again).When both the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed the same version of a bill they must ask for the President's approval. The President has three choices: to sign the bill, in which case the bill becomes law to do nothing, in which case the bill becomes law after ten day; or to veto the bill and send it back to Congress without his approval. If the President vetoes a bill, it still has one more change: if two -thirds of the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate vote for the bill, they can override the veto and the bill becomes law.

2. What is the executive branch of the government?

Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. The executive branch carries out and enforces laws. It includes the president, vice president, the Cabinet, executive departments, independent agencies, and other boards, commissions, and committees.

3. What is the judicial branch of the government?

The judicial branch is in charge of deciding the meaning of laws, how to apply them to real situations, and whether a law breaks the rules of the Constitution. The Constitution is the highest law of our Nation. The U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, is part of the judicial branch.

4. What is the bill?

In the United States Congress, a bill is proposed legislation under consideration by either of the two chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives or the Senate. Anyone elected to either body can propose a bill.

5. Who are the members of the Cabinet?

The most important group of advisers is called the Cabinet. The cabinet consists of the heads of the 14 departments that make up the executive branch of the federal government, such as the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defence, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labour, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy and Education. The State Department ranks ahead of others. The political power of the Secretary of the State is the second only to that of the president. He must maintain peace and negotiates economic and political treatness. Cabinet members are chosen by the President with the approval of the Senate.

6. What other national emblems does the country have?

Six U.S. symbols are depicted in this primary source set: the Liberty Bell, the U.S. flag, the bald eagle, the national anthem, Uncle Sam, and the Statue of Liberty.

7. What can you say about their history? 8. How did these things become as the national emblem?

The national anthem of the United States is “The Star Spangled Banner". The words written during the Anglo-American war of 1812-1814 and set to the music of an old song. Every state has its own flag, its own emblem and its own anthem too.

The Bald eagle

The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the USA and is represented on its Seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United States. Populations recovered and the species was removed from the U.S. federal government’s list of endangered species on July 12, 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.

Bald Eagles are not actually bald, the name derives from an older meaning of «white headed».

U.S Flag

The American flag is often called «The Stars and Stripes» (other names «Old Glory» and «The Star-Spangled Banner»).

It has 13 horizontal stripes,7 red and 6 white which stand for the original 13 states (thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union). In the top left hand corner there are 50 white stars on a blue background: one star for each state.

The Star-Spangled Banner

«The Star-Spangled Banner» is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from «Defence of Fort McHenry», a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

«The Star-Spangled Banner» was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889, and by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931, which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.