Legislative Project

Look up House or Senate Committee assigned to you.

House of Representative

Senate

Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services Budget Education and the Workforce Energy and Commerce Ethics Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security House Administration Judiciary Natural Resources Oversight and Government Reform Rules Science, Space, and Technology Small Business Transportation and Infrastructure Veterans’ Affairs Ways and Means Intelligence Joint Economic Committee Joint Committee on the Library Joint Committee on Printing Joint Committee on Taxation

Standing Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Appropriations Armed Services Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Budget Commerce, Science, and Transportation Energy and Natural Resources Environment and Public Works Finance Foreign Relations Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Judiciary Rules and Administration Small Business and Entrepreneurship Veterans' Affairs Special, Select, and Other Indian Affairs Select Committee on Ethics Select Committee on Intelligence Special Committee on Aging

Group:

• Is your committee in the House of Rep or Senate?
• Who sits on that committee?
• Who is the chairman, who is the Ranking member?
• What are that committee’s responsibilities?

Individual:

• What are three of the sub committees?
• What important members of congress sit on those committees?
• What are the current bills that the committee is working on?
• What congressman sponsored the bill?  
• What is the main stated purpose of the bill?

• Choose one congress person on the committee.
• Do they have any special qualifications to sit on that committee?
  Posit a reason why they might have wanted that position or been placed there?

 

legislative branch ppt.

Help for your SotU Essays

Peer Edit a classmates work.  Turn in with Final Draft initialed and red lined by at least one classmate.

Step 1  Look for:

Check first for answering outline questions fully.  should be able to easily find them in essay and understand the answer.

Essay should flow.  Verb agreement.  Do not switch between past and present tense in the course of the essay.

Run on sentences which ramble and don't flow.  Sentence Fragments which are missing a subject, verb, or predicate.

Outline

Paragraph 1: Introduction

-        Define purpose of the State of the Union

-        What are 3 of the issues that Obama talks about in SotU?

-        Which issue/action is most important?

Paragraph 2:  Body

-        Explain how your issue/concern is more important than the other two?

-        How does the evidence supplied by the president support that action?

-        What will happen if we do not solve the issue?

-        How will it benefit the nation if the action is passed into law?

Paragraph 3:  Body/Conclusion

-        Why is  your action controversial or not?

-        What party would support your action?  Why?

-        What party would oppose?  Why?

-        How might this issue be compromised to make it more palatable to both parties?

-Conclusion

Step 2:

Use the following websites to assist in flushing out 3rd Paragraph
Remember you can use ctrl-F to search documents for keywords like your issues.

Republican Platform Website


Democrat Platform Summary Website


Difference between Platforms  NYT article