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Simulation Evaluation

Peer evaluation: On Tuesday, November 1 (the Tuesday after simulation) please bring in a short memo in which you identify three or four participants who did a particularly good job. Give a couple of sentences to each person you name, explaining why she or he stood out. Give special attention to those who did their work behind the scenes. Please take some care with these memos. In addition to using them for evaluating the assignment, I save them so that I may quote them in letters of recommendation. Evaluations are anonymous: please bring in hardcopy and do not put your own name on the sheet.

Writeup: In analyzing your role in the simulation, please cover these points:

• How well did your positions and goals match those of your real-life counterpart?
• What methods did you use? In the circumstance that you dealt with, would your counterpart have done the same?
• What obstacles did you face?
• What did you achieve?
• How did the simulation both resemble and differ from the real world?
• Overall, what did you learn?

You may include  relevant supporting materials, such as: memoranda, bill drafts, or strategy notes. (Better yet, just refer to material that is already online, and provide the URLs.) Please be selective here: do not include everything, just the key items.

• Essays should be double-spaced, and between 5 and 6 pages long. I will not read past the 6th page. (Supporting materials do not count against the page limit.) 
• Submit the writeups as Word documents, not pdfs.
• Cite outside sources with Turabian endnotes.
• Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you.
• Return essays to the class Sakai dropbox by 11:59 PM, Friday November 11. Your grade for the simulation will drop one gradepoint for one day's lateness, a full grade after that.  

Follow the Judiciary Dems on Twitter!

Patrick Leahy: https://twitter.com/FakePatLeahy

Chuck Schumer: https://twitter.com/chuckyschumer

Amy Klobuchar: https://twitter.com/phonyklobuchar

Armed Services Dems, comment below with your Twitter accounts.

Judiciary Reps on Twitter

Follow the Judiciary Republicans on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SenatorChassley?lang=en

https://twitter.com/notSenLGraham?lang=en

https://twitter.com/majoritymitch?lang=en

https://twitter.com/CredTuzForTexas

Please comment below with your party/committee twitter accounts.

Appointments, Removals, Oversight

PAS and non-PAS

Confirmation hearings:

• Clarence Thomas
• Ambassadors

Process

• The nuclear option (Fisher, pp. 35-36):
• Senatorial courtesy (Fisher, pp. 33-34) and blue slips

• Current case on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Senate seldom votes down Cabinet nominations.


Removals:

• Federalist 77: IT HAS been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co-operation of the Senate, in the business of appointments, that it would contribute to the stability of the administration. The consent of that body would be necessary to displace as well as to appoint. 
• But he flip-flops as Pacificus: "With these exceptions the Executive Power of the Union is completely lodged in the President. This mode of construing the Constitution has indeed been recognized by Congress in formal acts, upon full consideration and debate. The power of removal from office is an important instance."
• Decision of 1789
• Myers v. US
• Humphrey's Executor v. US
• ONCE AGAIN: INDEPENDENT AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT REGULATORY COMMISSIONS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
• Saturday Night Massacre (Fisher, p. 81):
• Ruckelshaus on the massacre
• Bork on the massacre

Oversight

• GAO -- video
• CBO
• CRS
• Diminished institutional capacity

Legislation:  Executive Branch Organization and Laws on Reporting 

• Inspectors General
• Reporting requirements

An Update on CA 49th

Cook Political Report has moved Darrell Issa's district race to a "Toss-Up."

"As it turns out, it's possible to be the wealthiest member of Congress and still run a very poor campaign."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-rep-darrell-issa-reelection-bid-named-1476485337-htmlstory.html

Congress and the President II: After Congress Passes a Bill

Delegation language:  a very recent example

• Administrative Rules
• Executive orders
• Executive Actions (see below)
• US v. Texas
• The position of The Donald
• Signing statements

Vetoes

Pocket vetoes and "protective return pocket vetoes" (Davidson 297)

Newt Gingrich, Lessons Learned the Hard Way (1998):

We had not only failed to take into account the ability of the Senate to delay us and obstruct us, but we had much too cavalierly underrated the power of the President, even a President who had lost his legislative majority and was in a certain amount of trouble for other reasons. I am speaking of the power of the veto. Even if you pass something through both the House and the Senate, there is that presidential pen. How could we have forgotten that? For me especially it was inexcusable, because when I was Republican whip during the Bush Administration one of my duties had been precisely to help sustain presidential vetoes.

Item Veto

Fear, Loathing, and Turnout in Wisconsin 

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6939458433346259643#editor/src=sidebar

Ayotte sticks with Trump disavowal 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/ayotte-sticks-with-trump-disavowal-229713

Simulation Schedule

Monday, October 24, 2016

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM  State of the Union & GOP response -- Kravis Center Lower Court 62
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  Committee work -- Roberts South 103 and 105

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM  Committee hearings --Roberts South 103 and 105

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM  Committee markup -- Roberts South 103 and 105

Thursday, October 27, 2016

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM  Floor Session -- Roberts North 15
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Simulation roles

Armed Services

Republicans


John McCain (AZ), chair..............Steph Wong
Kelly Ayotte (NH)........................Brittany Woods
Tom Cotton (AR)..........................Justine Gluck
Joni Ernst (IA)..............................Caroline Sunshine
Mike Lee (UT)..............................Kassidy Cuccia-Aguirre

Democrats

Jack Reed (RI), ranking................Caroline Peck
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)................Grant Newburger
Joe Manchin (WV)........................Ian Descamps
Claire McCaskill (MO),,,,.,,,,,.,,,,,,,,Joelle Leib


Judiciary

Republicans

Chuck Grassley (IA), chair............Daniel Ludlam
Lindsey Graham (SC)....................Katherine DePalma
Jeff Flake (AZ)...............................Martin Sicilian
Ted Cruz (TX)................................Chandler Koon
Mitch McConnell (KY), R leader.... Skip Wiltshire-Gordon


Democrats

Patrick Leahy (VT), ranking..........Bruno Youn
Dianne Feinstein (CA)...................SEN LEAHY HAS THE PROXY
Chuck Schumer (NY), D leader......Felipe Afanador
Amy Klobuchar (MN)....................Lizzie Carrade

Congress and the Presidency

RNC Chair Reince Priebus reacts to the latest campaign news

LBJ orders some pants.

Article I and Article II

Hamilton in Federalist 8: "It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority."

Statements of Administration Policy

1— Strongly Support Passage
2— Support Passage
3— Do not Object to Passage
4— No Position on Passage
5— Oppose
6— Strongly Oppose
7— Secretary’s veto Threat (single and multiple agency)
8— Senior Advisor’s Veto Threat
9— Presidential Veto Threat

CQ on presidential success:

Presidential approval

The Johnson Treatment

Can we discuss pocket vetoes?

Paul Ryan Turns Focus From Donald Trump to House Races, Roiling G.O.P.

Ryan's harsh words for Trump in the last week have made headlines and encouraged a number of liberals who feared that the Speaker's support for Trump would bring in a bulk of run-of-the-mill conservatives. He seems to be giving up on Trump and redirecting his focus to congressional races. Some Reps have criticized this as a premature capitulation in the presidential race. Perhaps focusing on congressional races is the best way to ensure that a Republican party emerges from the wreckage of this election-- no matter what the outcome.

My burning question is: has Ryan correctly read the situation (a Clinton win) and decided to cut losses by focusing on House races? or does he hate Trump (and what Trump is doing to the Republican party) enough to try to hurt his chances with mainline Reps by withdrawing his support? Perhaps the answer is "all of the above..."

Article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/us/politics/donald-trump-gop-hillary-clinton.html?action=click&contentCollection=Election%202016&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&moduleDetail=undefined&pgtype=Multimedia

Republicans Respond to Trump's 2005 Tape

Jason Chaffetz: "I'm out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. It is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine."

Rince Priebus: "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever."

Paul Ryan: "I am sickened by what I heard today."

Mitch McConnell: Trump should "apologize directly to women and girls everywhere, and take full responsibility for the utter lack of respect for women shown in his comments on that tape."

Kevin McCarthy: "There is absolutely no place for that sort of conduct or language in our society. Donald Trump must make a full and unqualified apology."

John McCain: "There are no excuses for Donald Trump's offensive and demeaning comments. ... He alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences."

Jeb Bush: "As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women."

John Kasich: "Make no mistake the comments were wrong and offensive. They are indefensible."

Mitt Romney: "Hitting on married women? Condoning Assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world."

Dan Patrick: There's "absolutely no excuse to ever talk about women in such a crude and demeaning way."

Gary Herbert: "Donald Trump's statements are beyond offensive & despicable.”

John Huntsman: "The time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket."

Pat Toomey: "Donald Trump's comments were outrageous and unacceptable."

Kelly Ayotte: "Totally inappropriate and offensive."

Richard Burr: "Completely unacceptable."

Mark Kirk: "DJT is a malignant clown - unprepared and unfit to be president of the United States."

Jeff Flake: "America deserves far better than Donald Trump."

Tom Rath: "Go away. Go away. Go far far away......do not come back...ever."

Interest Groups, Decisionmaking, and Congress

The Politics of Ideology and Identity

Women in Congress
Revisit an item from the first class -- RSC and Freedom Caucus

The Shutdown

A segue: foreign lobbying

• The Ukraine Crisis
• Putin's paid agents
• FARA database:  an example

Lawmakers, lobbyists, and campaign money:

• Data on federal lobbying
• The revolving door and the law that backfired

• The "Daschle Loophole" -- his ill-fated HHS nomination
• A graphic
• Deregistration
• Soft lobbying 
• Think tanks
• Consultants
• Recognition and awards
• Philanthropy
• Politicians' charities (see the rule, pp. 347-349)
• Rent-a-friend as deep lobbying
• Lobbyist cites letter that he ghost-wrote!
• A summary

Decisionmaking

South Park's Underpants Gnome explains the shutdown strategy:



CQ Party Unity Scores



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• Individual member scores in the House
• Individual member scores in the Senate
• Interest group ratings
• Roll Calls

Lobby Data

The VP Debate May Not be Important to Voters, but it's Important to Mike Pence

Two opinion pieces appeared in RollCall on Monday about Mike Pence and how this VP Debate plays into his bright future within the GOP. Piece 1 and Piece 2.

If the Presidential debates only influence a small percentage of voters, then the VP debate affects no one. These articles focus on the political potential for Pence in the upcoming debate and what that may mean for his future within the party. Honestly, I never thought too much about how the VP debates or even the VP position can be used as a political spring board for rising stars within the party, so these opinion pieces offer an interesting take on the down-the-road future for each of the parties. The first article, Pence and the Path to Power for the GOP, claims the Democratic party lacks a "deep and talented bench of future stars" and points the generational gap between most Democrat leaders and under-40 voters. Do y'all believe this assessment of the state of the Democratic party? Do you think Mike Pence and the others listed in the article make up a "deep and talented bench" that will strengthen their party in the coming years?