The Texas State Legislature is a bicameral institution and it’s composed of the Texas State Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The lieutenant governor is elected statewide separately from the governor, who presides over the Senate. Only the state governor may call the Legislature into special sessions. The Texas Constitution limits the regular session to 140 calendar days. The governor may call as many sessions as he or she desires. The Texas Constitution limits the duration of each special session to 30 days.
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government. It’s made out of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, with its members picked through direct election. The term for the House of Representatives is two years and the Senate is six years. The U.S. Congress session is full-time which implies they meet…show more content… The executive branch consists of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commission, and the State Board of Education. All members of the executive branch are elected statewide except for the Secretary of State, who is appointed by the governor, and the State Board of Education, each of the 15 members are elected from 15 different districts in Texas.
The Federal Executive Branch is a unitary framework where the president and vice president serve for a term of four years and can be re-elected to a second term. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only president to be elected more than twice. He won the elections four times, but died shortly during his last term. The Twenty-second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1951, restricting a president to be elected to two