Recently, there has been a lot of attention paid to financial deals made by members of Congress using information that is not made public. These deals have made members of both parties great deals of money during a time when the rest of America is struggling to make ends meet. Your assignment is as follows:
1. Research this issue and figure out what needs to be done to end this practice.
2. Working in pairs as assigned by the class president, students will write a bill that addresses this issue.
3. Make a list of interest groups that can be used to support your bill.
4. Make a list of interest groups that would likely want to see your bill fail.
Make use of the following websites:
Building a bill:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/building-a-bill-in-congress.html
How to write a bill:
http://pmc.princeton.edu/writeabill.php
http://sites.google.com/site/roslynmodelcongress/how-to-s/write-a-bill
You will be building a basic strategy to move this bill through Congress on Tuesday, January 3rd.
1. Research this issue and figure out what needs to be done to end this practice.
2. Working in pairs as assigned by the class president, students will write a bill that addresses this issue.
3. Make a list of interest groups that can be used to support your bill.
4. Make a list of interest groups that would likely want to see your bill fail.
Make use of the following websites:
Building a bill:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/building-a-bill-in-congress.html
How to write a bill:
http://pmc.princeton.edu/writeabill.php
http://sites.google.com/site/roslynmodelcongress/how-to-s/write-a-bill
You will be building a basic strategy to move this bill through Congress on Tuesday, January 3rd.
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