Essay On How Many Branches Of The Government Have Too Much Power

“There are 7,928 bills and resolutions currently before the United States Congress. Of those, only about 5% will become law. They must be enacted before the end of the 2015-2017 session (the ‘114th Congress’)” (Govtrack.us). The government may make the laws, but laws in place limit their power and the laws make it so that a part of the government doesn’t become too powerful. In short, what checks and balances are, is how the branches of the government are kept from gaining too much power. Some examples are the President's veto, the Supreme court declaring a law unconstitutional and the ⅔’s vote by The House of Representatives and The Senate overriding the President’s veto. Another example is the 3 branches of the government. A bill can become a law, but it has to go through a lot of steps which keep an area of government from becoming too powerful, the steps are being introduced by a member of congress, a committee votes on the bill, The House of Representatives and The Senate vote and debate on it,

First, A member of Congress introduces the bill by sending it to a clerk of the senate or the house and the clerk gives it a title and a number. Secondly, It then gets sent to a committee made of a small number of senators/representatives who vote on it or “table” it. Tabling it basically kills the bill. Next, It then gets sent to the House of Representatives and The Senate they vote on it and make amendments to it, if they both pass the bill then a committee made of members of congress work out any kinks or differences in the bill. Lastly, The president then signs it into effect. An example of this is the Child Nutrition law. What this law did was increase the amount of reimbursement for unpaid lunches, expanded access to free lunches. Another goal of the law was to “combat childhood obesity” (Jalonick). Also as the case is with all other laws, acts, etc is it almost died a lot of times during the