The United States Congress consists of a bicameral legislature. Although both houses are considered the “Legislative Branch,” set up as part of the separation of federal powers or “checks and balances,” each house has different responsibilities. While the House of Representatives is associated with the “power of the purse,” it is the US Senate that is charged with advice and consent, a key provision found in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution. This responsibility has become one of the most important functions within the last sixty years.
Overall Role of the US Senate
The Senate is, as George Washington once explained to Thomas Jefferson, the saucer that cools the coffee. Unlike members of the House of Representatives that only serve two year terms, Senators serve for six years. Although originally appointed by individual state legislatures, the Seventeenth Amendment, adopted in 1913, allowed the direct, popular election of senators.
Proponents of term limits often miss the historically tested benefits of a Senate made up of men and women that have amassed years of experience and cultivated alliances within the “most exclusive club” as well as without. NC Senator Sam Ervin, for example, served as Senator from 1954 to 1974. His parliamentary knowledge was beyond equal and history will remember him as the driving force behind the Congressional Watergate probe. Senator Ted Kennedy’s long time crusade for health care reform would never have led to the current debates had there been term limits.
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