During Week 1 we learned about Administrative Law, and the three branches of the U.S. federal government, including the legislative branch. This first of two assignments is for you to pick one committee from the Senate and one committee from the House of Representatives (documents with committee listings included at the bottom). These are Federal Bills you are looking for, not State Bills (clarification as some students may guess the wrong group).
You are to conduct research and write four (4) complete paragraphs:
1. Find a current bill currently underway for the House of Representatives, also known as Congress. Write a paragraph about what bill entails, where the committee is with respect to the process of considering the bill, and who chairs the committee and the length of time they have in this role. Describe the other members of the committee as well. Provide me with your opinion as to if this bill would create a law and/or tax and if you would support or not. This must be a current bill and not a law.
2. Find a current bill currently underway for the Senate. Write a paragraph about what the bill entails, where the committee is with respect to the process of considering the bill, and who chairs the committee and the length of time they have in this role. Describe the other members of the committee as well. Provide me with your opinion as to if this bill would create a law and/or tax and if you would support or not. This must be a current bill and not a law.
3. Find a bill that is supported by both Chambers (House and Senate) in the current group of committees and write a paragraph about the bill and if you would support its passage. This must be a current bill and not a law
4. Find a bill that was vetoed by a president (current day presidents from George W. Bush going forward) and what happened to the bill: Did the legislative branch send it back down for approval to nix the president’s veto? Did they revise the bill to gain the president’s signature and support? Did they just decide not to try passing the bill and drop the idea?
Please spell check your work, and either upload a Microsoft Office file (word, excel) or type your answer in the assignment box (make sure you save a copy of it to your files).
Work will be scanned against Turnitin, in order to prove students are not submitting plagiarized work and no pdf files will be allowed. AI work will earn 0 points.
