Congressman

Career description:

A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. Member of Parliament (MP) is an equivalent term in other, unaffiliated jurisdictions.

What it’s like:

Common duties:

• Propose bills
• Develop approaches to their jobs that serve a wide range of roles and responsibilities
• Pass laws
• Vote on certain issues
• Takes part in meetings and congresses, debates over the creation or update of laws and regulations and votes for or against certain political measures or motions
• Involved in legislative projects of trans-national extent (such as treaties or economic agreements and partnerships between countries)
• Raises issues and makes legislative proposals, reports and stipulations in plenum (in front of the whole Senate assembly) and in specific commissions, according to his/her professional background
• Obey procedures regarding speeches, voting and promulgation of legislative initiatives