Congress

//__The United States Congress:American Government and Politics Today__// Chapter 12

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Model Congress - United States Senate

You are going to be taking on the role of a Senator of your choosing (provided you are the only one to select him/her) who is of the opposite political party than the campaign for president in which you participated. This is of course to give you an opposing point of view of politics and to better understand how the political process truly works from multiple perspectives.

Instructions for the Model Senate:



Direct link to lesson plan as adapted for this class: @http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_mocksenatesimulation.htm

Here are two examples from the current Congress of what a Bill should look like:





USE THIS TEMPLATE TO WRITE YOUR BILLS, BASED UPON THE FORMAT YOU SEE ABOVE!!!



Another example from the previous Congress



http://hurleygopomodelsenate.wikispaces.com/

How you are going to be graded on this entire project: @http://blog.wsd.net/bhatch/files/2013/02/Scoring-Rubric-for-YLI-e-congress-bills-and-debate.pdf

The US Senate

What's a filibuster?

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20672974 - how is it used?

Interesting article on the differences between the House and the Senate right now:

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