Role Of Lieutenant Governor In Texas Government

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Rahmadia Putri

The most powerful members of Texas legislature is Lieutenant Governor of often know as President of the Senate even lieutenant governor of Texas is more powerful than the governor. Lieutenant Governor is an executive branch position that are elected separately of the governor. Ironically, the executive branch responsibility almost there in no existences except in the case of the death of governor, surrender, removal from the office or absence from the state. The responsibility is not transparent yet for the people because even in the governor the responsibility is not existences.

(McNeely, 2010) During the reconstruction period after the civil war, Texas had to brave out the absorption of power in the governor:

who removed local, elected officials that already in part of the Confederacy; prescribed district judges, district lawyers, county treasurers, mayors and aldermen; and imposed martial law on counties. After the reconstruction era writers of the new Texas Constitution swear to disperse powers among governor. The revised constitution also made numerous position that is elected without any appointed by the governor. Texas is different, the senate is look not transparent yet, the political culture, the people, how we act, how we do things and how the government is run. The most differentiate from other nations is the duties and responsibility of Lieutenant Governor and people are don’t know much the important of this office to the country.

People know that President has more power than the vice president, even is us and other country.

The Lieutenant governor is not like the vice president of United States other they both are presiding office of the senate. Lieutenant Governor plays an active role as President of the Senate (unlike the US Vice President) and also chairs a number of important government boards. In fact Lieutenant Governor has more power in the state than the vice president do in US. Lieutenant governor is like what vice president do, but the level is different. Their task are they don’t need to do attends function, they need to visit the people to clear things up while it will bring risk or impolitic, they need to attend the funerals of opposition party, network for future bid, peddles influences and assume the governorship if the current governor dies or

resign.

(Perry, 2013) The Lt. Governor is Chair of this very important committee, they have a lot of right in the states. The examples is when the LBB proposes budget, it will goes directly to the legislature or come to the Lt. Governor to make sure to pass the budget he just approved. After that the budget goes to the governor, the governor will veto anything that they think that is necessary. People outside of the governor just know that the process is belongs to the governor. Yes, in some case it’s true that the government will recommended but the Legislative Budget Board does not have to follow any of them.
I think that Lieutenant Governor has enough power, because I think weather they have a lot of power but they also has the weakness.

It’s enough for Lieutenant Governor to grant the office more power, they need that power in order to control the state. Texas is very much against big government and which is can reflected reflect in the power given to Texas Governor or show how big and enough power that they has. In the system the governor has to share their power of executive with a group of other officials who are not elected or who are not obey the governor, so their power is not big as people know . This means that any major changes that the governor tries to make have to be approved by the rest of the executive. Those people are not overturn laws, but they can give a great influence on how the laws are carried out by the ways in which they run their parts of the executive branch. I think that the power of the Lieutenant governor are still can be controlled because they also have their duties that need to be done. The power is use for the important of the states, whether some of them are not use the power in right

way.
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