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Legislative Branch

The Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which collectively form the United States Congress. The Constitution grants Congress the sole authority to enact legislation and declare war, the right to confirm or reject Presidential appointments, and substantial investigative powers.

The House of Representatives is composed of 435 elected members from the 50 states in proportion to their total population. There are also 6 non-voting members who represent the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and four other American territories.

The Senate is made up of 100 Senators, with two senators from each state. Until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913. The Vice President serves as the President of the Senate and provides the decisive vote in the event of a tie.

Together, the House of Representatives and the Senate are the lawmakers of the nation. Any piece of legislation must pass through both houses of Congress before it is either vetoed or signed into law by the President.

It is vitally important that Americans pray for wisdom and understanding on behalf of the lawmakers of their nation.

Featured Member of the Legislative Branch for Prayer

PrayFocusLegislativeMichele Bachmann, United States Representative for Minnesota

Michele Marie Bachmann, nee Amble, was born in April 1956 in Waterloo, Iowa. She graduated from Anoka High School, and after graduation spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel. In 1978 she graduated from Winona State University. She received her juris doctor degree from Oral Roberts University, and a L.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary School of Law. She worked as an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service, but left that position to become a full-time mother, when her fourth child was born.

She was a member of the Minnesota Senate serving two different districts for eight years. In 2007 she was elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota’s 6th district.

Ms. Bachmann was an early candidate for her party’s nomination to the office of President in the 2012 election. She won the Ames (Iowa) Straw Poll in August 2011, but dropped out in January 2012 after finishing in sixth place in the Iowa caucuses.

She is married to Marcus Bachmann. Together they have provided foster care for 23 children, all teenage girls. She attends Eagle Brook Church, an evangelical Christian church near to their home.

IN THE NEWS: “Could there potentially be political implications regarding health care? Access to health care? Denial of health care? Will that happen based upon a person’s political beliefs or a person’s religiously held beliefs?” Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann said, later adding that the IRS could “blackmail” people. Bachmann stopped short of saying that Obama should be impeached, but when asked said that option shouldn’t be dismissed.“As I have been home in my district, the 6th District of Minnesota, there isn’t a weekend that hasn’t gone by that someone says to me, ‘Michele, what in the world are you all waiting for in Congress? Why aren’t you impeaching the president? He’s been making unconstitutional actions since he came into office,’” Bachmann said. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky also used the IRS scandal to shed doubt on implementation to the health care law.





US Congress

Legislative Branch Prayer Needs

PRAY FOR OUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS

The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the immigration bill with a bipartisan 13-5 vote. The comprehensive legislation that would put 11 million illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship now goes to Senate floor debate.

IRS official Lois Lerner appeared briefly before the House Oversight Committee before enforcing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. She told the Committee, “I’ve not done anything wrong.”

Pray about the work of the numerous committees in the House and Senate in their search for truth and trust.

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