Living Constitution blog 1: Legislative Branch

1) Source: Political Cartoon

         Title of Cartoon: House vs. Senate Health Bills

2) Constitutional Connection: Article 1, Legislative Branch, Section 7, Clause 2  “From Bill to Law"

 3) Explanation of Connection:

            The political topic that is being discussed in this cartoon is the bill proposal in the Legislative Branch. This cartoon is talking about how both the Senate and the House were proposing bills for health care. The rams represent the two separate houses, and the person represents the public. The two rams are angry and are trying to ram each other. The public is stuck in the middle and is forced to be in the middle of the brawl of the two houses. I feel as if the two houses are represented by fighting rams because both houses are trying to get their bill proposals finalized and sent to the president.

          

              This cartoon clearly demonstrates Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2 of the U.S Constitution. There is a certain process that a bill goes through to become a law. In this cartoon it is demonstrating the first part which is the idea. Both the House and the Senate wanted to improve something in health care, so the both came up with a bill. Since both branches are trying to propose a bill they are trying to get to the public to see if the public will side with either bill so that it may continue in its process to becoming a law. Since both the Senate and the House are trying to get to the public, they feel threatened on making a choice on which bill to choose.

             I am not surprised that both the senate and the house are trying to propose a bill. I am not surprised because health care has become a big issue in our country now-a-days. So in order to help solve the problem both houses felt the need to propose a bill. Since both proposed the bill, I think they went to the public to decide which  bill they felt would help benefit them better. After they go to the public i think the "rams" will be trying to get to the president so that he can vote and decide which bill will become law. I think that based on this cartoon both houses were very aggressive on this topic, and I feel they shouldn't. I feel they shouldn't be be so aggressive because then the public and the president might be frightened and intimidated an unsure on which bill to chose to become a law.