Day-to-Day Congressional Operations
David Hawkings talked about the day-to-day operations in the House and Senate and the role of different officials, including the Parliamentarian, the Clerk of the House, and Sergeant at Arms.
Description
David Hawkings talked about the day-to-day operations in the House and Senate and the role of different officials, including the Parliamentarian, the Clerk of the House, and Sergeant at Arms.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Explain the purpose of the team of “bureaucratic functionaries” that run the day-to-day operations of Congress.
- Describe the role and purpose of the Parliamentarian in the House of Representatives.
- Describe the role and purpose of the Clerk of the House.
- Explain the job of the Sergeant at Arms.
- Describe the role and purpose of the remaining officials of the House that David Hawkings described.
- Explain the jobs of the officials in the Senate. How are they different from those in the House?
- How do the officials get these jobs?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Bill Clerk
- Bureaucratic
- Chief Of Staff
- Clerk
- Hopper
- Mace
- Parliamentarian
- Precedence
- Presiding Officer
- Quorum Call
- Roll Call
- Sergeant At Arms
- Speaker Of The House
- Speaker Pro Tem
- Tally Clerk