* Fill in the gaps:

1. _____is home to both the Senate and House of Representatives as well as various

committee and hearing rooms and an art gallery.

2. _____arose because only a very few individual rights were specified in the original main

body of the constitution.

3. _____ in the west wing of the White House is tailed the heart of the American

presidency.

4. _____ has become the established political symbol for the Democratic Party, although it

has never been officially adopted.

5. Any aircraft used to carry the president is referred to as ______.

6. _______lasts two years (or sessions) and begins at noon on 3 January of odd-numbered

Years

7. As well as drafting and implementing laws Congress also has the power to _____

federal officials including the president and vice president.

8. _______is the traditional nickname for the Republican Party widely used in American

political reporting.

9. The vice president serves as ______over the Senate although he does not serve on any

committees and is restricted to voting only in the event of .

Public Opinion and Presidency

to conduct/ to take an opinion poll

io measure public opinion

polling organization, pollster; respondent

the technique of random sampling

results/findings of opinion polls; polls indications

approval/popularity rating

to be ahead/ to ride high in opinion polls, a front runner

to be behind/ to trail behind in opinion polls

to run neck and neck, level pegging

Impeachment

Impeachment, is often by mistake, taken to mean only the removal from office of an accused public official. In fact, it is a proceeding by a legislature for the removal from office of a public official charged with misconduct in office. Impeachment comprises both the act of formulating the accusation and the resulting trial of the charges. An impeachment trial may result either in an acquittal or in a verdict of guilty. In the latter case the impeached official is removed from office;

The U.S. Constitution, in Article I, Section 3, provides for the impeachment of federal public officials and gives explicit directions for conducting impeachments The House of Representatives initiates impeachment proceedings by resolution and appoints a number of its members to act as managers in prosecuting the impeachment before the Senate, which serves as a court to try the official. The vice president, who presides over the Senate, also presides at impeachment trials, except in the case of £n impeachment of the president, when the chief justice of the U.S. presides. A two-thirds majority vote of the senators present at an impeachment trial is necessary to secure conviction. Most impeachment proceedings in U.S. history have involved federal judges, and acquittals have been more numerous than convictions. In 1868 President Andrew Johnson was impeached on charges of defying the authority of Congress and of violating a federal law, the recently enacted Tenure of Office Act. Johnson was acquitted, in 1974, three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon were voted by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. The president was charged with obstructing justice, abusing his constitutional authority, and failing to obey the committee's subpoenas. Nixon resigned, and the House accepted the committee report without further action. Impeachment procedure in the states is modeled on that of the federal Constitution and has been infrequently invoked.

In England, the House of Lords exercised the exclusive right of impeachment of public officials from the earliest days of Parliament until 1376. in that year the House of Commons began to initiate by resolution impeachment proceedings that were then tried by the House of Lords. Among notable instances of impeachment in English history was that involving the colonial administrator Warren Hastings in 1788. In recent years in England impeachment has rarely been invoked.

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