What Officers of the Senate are required by the Constitution?
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I think only the President of the Senate is mentioned (the Vice President of the United States) along with the President pro tem.  The rest of the officers are left up to the Senate as it is given power to make its own rules.
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All of Article One.  It's actually a quite large section:\n\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#articlei\n\nSections 7-10 would be most likely where you'll find what you need, since those section outline powers, limits, and what authority they carry over the states.\n\nAlso, while many people wouldn't even think of it, the 27th Amendment grants power to Congress...to decide their pay:\n\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxxvii.html
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1.) President makes the appointment.\n2.) The Senate must confirm the appointment by majority vote.\n\nFrom Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution:\n"...and he (the President) shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate ... Judges of the supreme Court..."
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Clause 2 of the 25th amendment:\n\n"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."\n\nThis is the closest mention of anything in the Constitution.  I would assume that if he hasn't been inaugurated yet, the President-elect would have more leniency in picking his next VP with no vote by Congress.
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Officially there are no requirements.  The President can nominate anyone except a Congressman, anyone at all, even you.  Then the Senate has to confirm the nomination.  That is where politics enters.  If they do not feel you arew qualified, you will not be confirmed.  Generally, secretaries are not military personnel, but rather civilians, usually businessmen accustomed to management.  Perhaps even from various defense industries.  Often nominations are politicians the party wishes to keep friendly.
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1     When writing the constitution, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention ran into a problem. The states were in fierce disagreement over how to establish the Congress. The smaller states wanted equal division of representatives. The larger states wanted representatives based on population. In coming to a compromise – called The Great Compromise – the delegates divided the Congress into two houses, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.\n \n2     The Senate gives the small states an equal voice in the government. Each state has two Senators who serve six-year terms. In order to serve in the Senate, a person must be thirty years old, have been a U.S. citizen for nine years, and be a resident of the state where elected. The Senate is the more distinguished house in Congress. Members are older and usually have more experience in government. Of the one-hundred members, one-third of the Senate comes up for election every two years. The rotating elections help to maintain the stability of this house of Congress.\n \n3     The Senate has many important jobs of its own. In addition to working on bills, the Senate is responsible for approving many of the decisions of the president. Treaties and appointments of judges, department heads, ambassadors, and agency leaders receive final approval in the Senate. Treaties are given special consideration and must be approved by a two-thirds vote to become law.\n \n4     The leader of the Senate is the vice-president. As leader, the vice-president decides who will speak to the Senate and casts a deciding vote when a tie occurs. However, the vice-president is not a member of the Senate and does not participate in debates about bills.\n \n5     When the Senate discusses a bill, they do not have a strict set of rules to follow. Standard procedures allow debating and amending a bill to continue indefinitely. However, an agreement called "unanimous consent" can change the standard procedures followed. Under "unanimous consent," all of the Senators must agree to modify the procedures. If one individual Senator disagrees, that Senator has the power to stop the modification. When this happens, a bill becomes the victim of a filibuster. In a filibuster, the Senator in disagreement talks on and on about the bill to delay the final vote. In order to end this, sixty Senators must call for cloture, which sets a time limit for debate.\n \n6     The House of Representatives is called the lower house of Congress. There are four-hundred and thirty five members in the House. Every two years the entire House of Representatives is up for election. Representatives must be careful to be the voice of the people for their state. The shorter term gives the people the opportunity to choose someone else when a representative does not follow their wishes. To serve as a representative, a person must be twenty-five years old, a U.S. citizen for seven years, and a resident of the state where elected.\n \n7     Population determines the number of representatives allotted to a state. In order to determine allotment, the federal government takes a census every ten years. State leaders form districts in each state based on the census results. Each district gets one representative. Every state receives at least one representative no matter how small their population may be.\n \n8     In addition to working on laws with the Senate, the House of Representatives has other responsibilities. In a presidential election where a candidate does not receive a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives meets to choose the next President.\n \n9     In addition, a bill concerning taxes must start in the House.
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The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, including, but not limited to, the Speaker of the House and federal judges.\n\nHowever, the impeachment process is not the jurisdiction of criminal law and not all crimes are impeachable offenses.
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The House is larger (435 members), and elected en masse every two years. The great power of the House is in taxation and spending. The Constitution requires that all revenue bills originate in the House. Therefore, the House Ways and Means Committee, House Budget Committee and the House Appropriations Committee basically control domestic spending.\n\nThe real power of the Senate lies in two areas: Appointments and Foreign Policy. The Senate is smaller (100 members) and has longer six year terms. And the Constitution requires all treaties negotiated with foreign governments to be approved by the Senate. It also requires all major executive appointments (members of the president's cabinet, ambassadors, etc) to be approved by the Senate. And all members of the federal Judiciary (most especially, the members of the Supreme Court) must also be approved by the Senate.\n\nBottom line -- The House dominates in taxing and spending policy, and the Senate dominates in appointments and foreign policy.\n\nHope this answer helps.
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The Constitution of the United States
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check out Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution.  There you will find the powers laid out for you.  \n\nThe judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the Constitution.  They are not supposed to legislate, the legislative branch does that.  (Congress)  \n\nThe Supreme Court is able to interpret and change laws...to hand down decisions that become law, but are not statutes.  I realize some judges are elected...but many of them are appointed.  This serves to seperate them from elected officials who tend to make decisions that will get them reelected.  For example, Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.  This is supposed to ensure that they will not make politically biased decisions in an effort to get votes.\n\n--The Supreme Court has a good website with lots of info.  \n\nThe judicial branch is seperate from the executive and the judicial branches---this was done purposely so that each branch could provide checks and balances on the others....
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JOB DESCRIPTION – SENATORS\n\nDUTIES:\n\n1. Attendance at all Senate meetings – Second Tuesday of every month 7:30am to 9:30am.\n2. Active participation on at least one of the Senate’s standing committees (2 hrs/month)\n3. Provide communication via email about Senate matters to constituents in your academic unit \n4. Solicit input from constituents for use in Senate deliberations\n5. Serve as part of your unit’s nominating committee for positions on the FPPC and for Faculty Senate elections\n6. Ensure your unit’s representation at Senate meetings by arranging for an alternate to replace you if are unable to attend a Senate meeting (see below]\n7. Represent your constituents in Senate deliberations\n8. Senators in the second years of the two-year term serve as the lead or senior Senators to coordinate the academic unit delegation to the Senate. This coordination is to prepare any reports requested by the Senate and to take the lead on soliciting information from constituents and to solicit nominations for the next year’s election of Senators from the academic unit.\n\nJOB DESCRIPTION – ALTERNATE SENATORS\nDUTIES:\n\n1. Active participation on at least one of the Senate’s standing committees (2 hrs/month)\n2. Attendance at meetings where you replace a Senator\n3. Encouraged to attend all Senate meetings to stay abreast of issues\n4. Seek feedback and input from constituents\n5. Serve as a member of the Nominations Committee for your academic unit for \nthe Faculty Senate and Faculty Policies & Procedures Committee elections for \nthe annual elections process.\n6. Alternate senators (who have served 2 terms as alternate) are eligible to be \nnominees for the Faculty Senate elections for their academic unit
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The legislative branch of the government was given several powers under the Constitution. The may lay and collect taxes,regulate commerce with other nations and among the states,declare war,raise an army and navy,coin money. They may also impeach the president and members of the federal judiciary. Another big power of the legislative branch is to make laws that are necessary and proper to carry out it's enumerated powers(the ones listed above). This power is found in the necessary and proper clause.
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Justices serve for Life and are nominated by the President. Every President will have a short list at hand and the prospective candidate is screened by the FBI.\nThe Senate approves or rejects the nominee, who is then sworn in usually by the senior most Justice.
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there are three.\nlegislative: make laws(congress.\nexecutive: carry out the laws(President)\njudicial: enforce the laws(courts, Supreme Court)
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anything that is in the constitution..........
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The Senate is presided over by the Vice President, currently Dick Cheney
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial