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This 15 page report review the function of a U.S. Senator's office, its purpose, function, and structure. In specific, the report looks at Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her role in service to both the people of Texas and the rest of the citizens of the U.S.A. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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* He or she must be at least thirty years of age, * a citizen of the United States, and * a
resident of the state from which he or she is chosen. In its original format, the Constitution also provided that individual state legislatures would elect their states Senators
to represent them in Washington, but in 1913 the Seventeenth Amendment established direct election of Senators by the people. The Senate, often called the upper house, and generally regarded as
the more deliberative of the two houses of Congress, is composed of two senators from each state, elected for 6-year terms. Since 1959 the Senate has had 100 members.
By constitutional provision, the terms of one-third of the members of the Senate expire every 2 years; and the resulting overlapping of terms makes the Senate, in effect, a continuing
body. (Encarta) The presiding officer of the Senate is the U.S. vice president, whose official senatorial title is president of the Senate,
and who is addressed in the Senate as "Mr. President." The vice president may vote only when the Senate is deadlocked by a tie. In the absence of the vice
president the Senate is presided over by a president pro tempore, who, by the terms of an act passed by Congress in 1947, is next after the Speaker of the
House of Representatives in the order of succession to the U.S. presidency. The president pro tempore participates in debates and has a vote. (Pious)
Greater efficiency in the work of the Senate resulted from the passage, by Congress, of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, which reduced the number of senatorial standing
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