Article 2

Influences on Legislation

In present-day there are many people who believe having an interest group with a great amount of power or influence is undemocratic while others believe it is not. Party leaderships are based on seniority, and can control the course of which legislation is worth getting Congress attention. Although significantly different, these are the main influences on legislative voting in the U.S Congress.

Interest groups are reserved, have one goal, and are tied down to their own interest, and astonishingly have a great amount of money. Having this money, they possess of great influence on future elections since they fund most of the politicians campaigns. Having their goal in mind these interest groups will urge specific legislations to go through congress and in return the President and Congressman will depend on them for elections and funding.

Because everybody has goal and wants something accomplished and done, the party system does not stay behind. These parties put candidates to run based on what they want to get done. It definitely plays a major role in our government, and basically has dominated it as well. Parties work together trying to identify with the people by displaying their belief and principles so they can vote for them. As they become more unified they work towards passing legislation and taking action on public concerns. When it comes to voting unfortunately these parties will only vote against each other because they are in the opposing party even if they could benefit from it.

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