tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69394584333462596432024-03-24T06:11:21.492-07:00CMC Congress CourseThis blog serves my Congress course (Claremont McKenna College Government 101) for the spring of 2024.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-23548597725832859312024-03-23T19:13:00.000-07:002024-03-23T19:13:47.214-07:00Marjorie Taylor Greene files surprise motion to oust Speaker Johnson, a sign of growing revolt from the right<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson/index.html">Marjorie Taylor Greene files surprise motion to oust Speaker Johnson, a sign of growing revolt from the right</a></p><p>Greene filing a motion to vacate as a "warning" right before a two-week recess is such an interesting development to me. It seems like a lot of Republicans think Greene is being silly, and I wonder if this will make Republicans reconsider the rule allowing only one member to bring a motion to vacate. </p>Nicole Jonassenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450653607754164494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-24334845608541543992024-03-06T10:29:00.000-08:002024-03-06T10:29:18.400-08:00Congress and the Presidency II<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://gov101.blogspot.com/2024/03/simulation-2024.html">Simulation</a></b></span></p><p><a href="https://rollcall.com/2024/03/06/key-results-from-congressional-primaries-on-super-tuesday/"><span style="font-size: large;">Super Tuesday</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2020: watch at 26:10 and 1:46:00</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qK9Ft80SMmc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2023 SOTU</span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gzcBTUvVp7M?si=nnlkPhxncyupjYjc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Power to Persuade</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/G7KZogmtlRU" style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">LBJ and negotiation</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/nicholas-e-calio-oral-history" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interview with the Bush leg affairs shop</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/louisa-terrell-legislative-director/index.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Biden legislative affairs shop</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://gov101.blogspot.com/2020/03/congress-decides.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c5224d;">CQ on presidential success</span> (review from a few weeks ago)</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aD65-twslOCDEn8G9V8rTbGq-qRNSZldJZX_xsfP3EzqzLrSDXA3VrmmPqiq-AauZZOHX6gzl0tTwc-5a4naM93Qe_-zq2V7AZNhiY8R_hQIQehxUFBkRTNoOIafifFLIGyuq4CMpTiw0gtiR1Rsk2NDM3VYQghfNylC0iacHiF4sPnVJIlU3bfg-ZXr/s1920/2022_01_prez-success2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidential approval and the "decay curve"</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-4786878997598113092024-03-06T10:18:00.000-08:002024-03-06T10:18:07.606-08:00Simulation 2024<p> <b style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the simulation! You are joining the hybrid version of an old tradition, which started in the 1970s with Profs. Jerome Garris of Claremont McKenna College, Walter Zelman of Pitzer, and Daniel Mazmanian of Pomona. Professors David Menefee-Libey of Pomona and Dana Ward of Pitzer developed it further.</b></p><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><u style="background-color: yellow;">IN READING THE FOLLOWING, KEEP IN MIND THAT THE INSTRUCTOR MAY CHANGE ANY RULE OR PROCEDURE AT WILL IN ORDER TO FINISH THE SIMULATION ON TIME.</u></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Each participant will a current senator. Students will keep faith with their members' public views and operating styles. Players should always ask themselves: "What would the person I'm playing do in this particular situation?" Players are, however, free to be more vigorous and skillful than their real-life counterparts. </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><strong>The four stages in the simulation are </strong></span></div><div><ol><li><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Presidential statement and the opposition response;</span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Committee hearings;</span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Committee markups;</span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Floor session. </span></strong></li></ol></div><div><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">A debriefing may take place the Monday after the simulation.</span></strong></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><br /></strong>In addition to the scheduled sessions, participants may use Zoom or other electronic means to hold party or committee caucuses.<b> DIY</b>: <b>These caucuses do <u>not</u> require the participation of the instructor.</b><br /><b><br /></b>All bills must go via Google Docs or email to both party leaders and all members of the committee by 11:59 pm of the Monday before simulation, to allow all members to study the proposals and consider amendments. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">No bill reported out of committee may be longer than 10 pages (single-spaced, 12-point type on standard paper (virtual) with 1-inch margins).</span><br /><br /><b>In committee and on the floor, all voting will take place by show of hands or Zoom polling. (The real Senate does roll calls, but time constraints rule out that method.)</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Presidential statement and opposition party response. (Monday, March 18)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Democrats will recruit a student or alum of the Claremont Colleges to portray the actual current president. The President will begin the simulation by presenting his views on policy matters under consideration. The opposition party may choose a current student or alum to present a response. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In Judiciary Committee proceedings, Senator Schumer will have two votes so as to maintain a close partisan balance.</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Committee hearings. (Monday March 18 if time permits, and Wednesday March 20). Meetings and hearings during class time will take place in person in our classroom (RN 104) and the <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Curb Conference Room in Heggblade</span>. Committees may also meet by Zoom during the evening.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">All bills should go to both party leaders before the simulation, to allow all members to study the proposals and consider amendments. All bills related to policy matters will go to committee. No bill reported out of committee may be longer than 10 pages (single-spaced, 12-point type with 1-inch margins).</span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The committee chair or her/his designee will preside over the work of the committee.</span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Any schedule and rules for procedure within each committee shall be by agreement between the chair and ranking member of that committee if not specified already by this document. No committee meetings beyond those already in this document may take place without the consent of the ranking minority member of the committee.</span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">No committee business may proceed in the absence of a quorum constituted by at least a majority of the committee's members, and including at least one member of the minority party. The purpose of this quorum rule is to ensure minority participation, not to encourage dilatory tactics. The course instructor reserves the right to respond appropriately to abuse of the rule<b>. (In other words, <i><u>no walkouts</u></i>.)</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Each committee will conduct hearings in order to develop at least one bill. Students and alums of the Claremont Colleges may play witnesses. (<b><i><u>In particular, consider students in the Interest Groups course as well as simulation alumni</u></i></b>.) The parties should recruit witnesses and help them prepare. Witnesses will appear before the committee to present testimony for or against the legislation and answer the committee members' questions. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">The chair of the committee may begin with short welcoming remarks and may read an opening statement outlining his or her views on the legislation. The ranking member and other committee members may have opening remarks of their own.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Witnesses may testify individually or in panels (groups).</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Each witness opens with a brief statement for or against the bill in question.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Each witness may provide as elaborate a presentation, with charts or other aids, as time allows. Such decisions are wholly within the control of the committee members.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">The chair starts the questioning, followed by the ranking member. The questioning alternates back and forth from Republican to Democrat until the least senior member on each side of the aisle has been heard. (Variants: Some committees use a "first come, first heard" system, in which members are recognized for questions in the order in which they arrived at the session. The chair and ranking member may negotiate situations in which only a limited number of committee members ask questions. Use of these variants must gain unanimous consent.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Each member usually gets time (for example, five minutes) to question each witness before the committee. The chair usually determines the time allotted for questioning as the session proceeds, given the constraints of time allotted for the entire session. The chair is sole judge of the time expended by each membere. If there is time left over, the chair may divide it among those members who have further questions.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">The chair usually concludes the questioning.</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">As a means of maintaining decorum, no member may disparage another member. Any violation may be subject to appropriate action by the committee and the Senate. Each member must address colleagues with respect. Appropriate forms of address are "My distinguished colleague," or "I am happy to yield to my colleague from the state of ---," or "I do not wish to yield any of my time to the Senator from ---," and so forth.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The chair shall not allow personal accusations or any derogatory statements against witnesses. The chair should respond appropriately to violations of this rule. Responses may include a warning to the member about the inappropriate conduct and in extreme cases expulsion from the chamber. Witnesses will have time to present their testimony as the chair deems appropriate. Witnesses should summarize their testimony. Witnesses may not question the members of the committee except by their permission</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Markup (Monday March 25)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">RN 104 and Curb Conference Room</span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />During markup, committees consider bills and engage in brief deliberations. The goal is to have each committee vote out at least one final bill for consideration by the full Senate. Members may amend or rewrite any bill. The number and order of bills considered by the committee shall be by agreement of the chair and ranking member. <b style="background-color: yellow;">Time is short, so the number of bills must be small.</b><br /><br />The committee chair or the chair's designee shall preside over each committee, including markup and voting. The presiding officer shall maintain a semblance of parliamentary order.<br /><br />Members should agree to markup procedure before they begin considering amendments. Such ground rules bring order to the consideration of bills.<br /><br />For example, the committee may begin consideration of a bill in markup with the first title, or first section, and continue through the last title and last section. Alternately, they may consider amendments on a first-come, first-served basis and work until a bill can command a majority vote. Again, the aim is to report at least one bill to the Senate with whatever amendments the committee approves.<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Germaneness</b>. The Senate and its committees may consider only those amendments that relate to the legislation. If the amendment in question does not fall within the area of the bill, it is subject to a point of order of "nongermaneness" and can be stricken. Whether an amendment is germane is determined by the presiding officer; that decision is subject to a vote, if called, by the full subcommittee or committee. Under the circumstances, and like the real Senate, we shall avoid being hypertechnical about germaneness.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Origin of Amendments</b>. Any member of the committee can present an amendment to a pending bill as long as that amendment is germane. Amendments must be seconded.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Quorum</b>. In this simulation, a quorum requires at least a majority of the committee's members. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Recognition for Points of Order</b>. If a member seeks recognition for a point of order, that member must be recognized. The member must then state the point of order succinctly, and it must relate to a suspected violation of rules upon which the chair must rule. Similarly, a member may seek to be recognized for a parliamentary inquiry, in which the member seeks to clarify the present status of debate, discussion, rights, or rules upon which that member is not clear and is seeking advice or a ruling from the chair at a later time. This course in only for a genuine inquiry, not messaging or partisan gamesmanship. A member may be ruled out of order by if the chair determines that the inquiring member does not seek to make a germane inquiry. <b style="background-color: yellow;">Time is short, so the instructor will frown on dilatory tactics.</b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Majority. </b>All votes within the committee will require a simple majority of votes.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">At the end of the markup session, the committee must vote whether to report the bill. The chair calls for a vote and counts the yeas and nays. Here are some of the options the committee has in reporting a bill:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Report the bill without amendment: the committee makes no changes to the text of the bill as introduced.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Report the bill with one comprehensive amendment: the committee adopts what is called an amendment in the nature of a substitute (that is, it strikes all text after the enacting clause and substitutes the text of the amended bill approved by the committee).</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Report the bill with a series of discrete amendments: the committee may adopt multiple amendments.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Order a clean bill reported: a clean bill is simply the original bill, along with the amendments adopted by the full committee, which is introduced again and assigned a new number.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Report unfavorably or adversely: committees rarely report a bill adversely because it is easier simply to kill the legislation in committee. (This latter course is not an option in the simulation.)</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">To make a motion to report the bill (as amended), you would say, "Mr. Chairman (or Madam Chairman), I move that the committee report the bill (as amended). When the full committee has approved the motion, the bill is reported.<b><br /></b><br /></span><h4 align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;">Floor Action (Wednesday March 27)</span></h4><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><u style="background-color: #fcff01;">ROBERTS NORTH 15</u></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the final stage, all legislators debate and act on the measures reported by the committees.<br /><br />The majority leader will name a member to preside over the full session of the Senate, acting as the President of the Senate Members will address the Presiding Officer as Madam or Mister President.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Presiding Officer will maintain a semblance of parliamentary order and will rule on all parliamentary inquiries. The majority and minority leaders will jointly decide on any rules governing debate not specified in this document, subject to the instructor's approval. In the simulation, these rules will not be subject to objection. The instructor will have the last word on any disputes.<br /><br />The quorum required for conducting business on the Senate floor consists of at least a majority of all members. (Past simulations included walkouts in attempts to deny a quorum. Again,<b> we do not have time for such tactics this year</b>.)<br /><br /><b>Bills will come up sequentially</b>, in whatever order the party leaders deem appropriate. The majority leader and minority leader shall negotiate a "unanimous consent agreement" for consideration of all bills providing for scheduling and amendment rules for each. The "unanimous consent agreement" will specify which amendments will be in order. Each bill will have a brief period of debate, evenly divided between majority and minority members.<br /><br />The bills will be presented by a majority floor manager to be designated by the majority leader (it will usually be the chair of the relevant committee). As floor managers, the committee chair and the ranking minority member (or their designee) control the allocation of the debate time under the rule. Members of the committee get first preference, followed by other members of the Senate.<br /><br />The presiding officer recognizes the majority and minority floor managers for debate. To begin debate time, the floor manager says: "Madam President (or Mr. President), I yield myself such time as I may consume."<br /><br />The majority floor manager, who introduces the bill, explains the bill, and begins the general debate, is followed by the minority floor manager. The Presiding Officer then alternates in recognizing the majority and minority floor managers, who then yield time to their partisan colleagues. Senate members are granted time in minutes or blocks of minutes. Majority and minority floor managers are responsible for monitoring usage of time. Members desiring to speak on the measure will arrange time in advance with the floor manager.<br /><br />Debate expires at the end of the time allotted under the rule or when all requests for time have been honored, if earlier. To end debate time, the floor manager says, "Mr. President (or Madam President), I have no further requests for time and yield back the balance of my time."<br /><br />At the end of the initial debate period,<strong> the amendment process</strong> starts. The amendments will come up according to the " unanimous consent agreement." The author of the bill can speak about the amendment for one minute.<br /><br />After all debate and voting on amendments, the Presiding Officer announces that "under the rule, the previous question is ordered." Debate stops, and the Senate votes measure before it.<br /><br />Final recorded votes take place on each measure as well as on major amendments. Passage of f<b>loor amendments</b> shall be by simple majority. <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"> </span><b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Final floor passage of bills shall require at least one member of the minority party.</b><br /><br /></span><h3 align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;">GENERAL DECORUM: SOME TIPS ON BEING A SENATOR</span></h3><span style="font-size: medium;">As participants in this legislative exercise, you and your colleagues will gain from the experience what you put into it. Stick to your role at all times and prepare carefully<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> You are always speaking to the chair.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> A member must attract the chair's attention by saying "Mr. Chairman" (or "Madam Chairman") in committee, or "Mr. President" (or "Madam President") in full session.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> Thus, remarks commonly begin with "Mr. (or Madam) Chairman" in committee, or "Mr. President" in full session.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> Do not refer to your colleagues directly when addressing a committee or the chamber. For instance, if you wish to comment on the remarks of a colleague you would say, "Mr. (or Madam) Chairman, my distinguished colleague from Maryland has just said black is white and I would like to point out that . . . ."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To ask a question or to make a comment while another member is speaking, you would say, "Mr. (or Madam) Chairman, will the gentleman (gentlewoman) yield?"</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> You should refer to yourself as "I."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To signify the conclusion of your remarks: "I yield back the balance of my time."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To ask for clarification of the parliamentary situation: "A parliamentary inquiry, Mr. (or Madam) Chairman."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To do something not permitted by the rules: "I ask unanimous consent that . . . ."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To discuss or ask for clarification of a unanimous consent request: "Reserving the right to object . . . ."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> To enforce a rule: "I make a point of order against on the grounds that . . . ."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> The legitimate purpose of "a point of information" is to ask a question, not to inject one's view of the facts of a situation.</span></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Remember that time is short. Avoid dilatory tactics.</span></b></li></ul><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-63463407258507352382024-03-04T10:43:00.000-08:002024-03-04T10:43:41.933-08:00Congress and the Presidency I<p><span style="font-size: large;">Simulation details. Will adjourn early for informal caucusing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2024/02/28/how-to-watch-president-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address/">SOTU: THURSDAY 6 PM PACIFIC</a></span></p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4503477-who-is-katie-britt-gop-response-state-of-the-union/"><span style="font-size: large;">REPUBLICAN RESPONSE</span></a></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JUDSeb2zHQ0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">The Struggle Over Presidential Authority: </span><a href="http://constitution.findlaw.com/" style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">Article I and Article II</a></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.senate.gov/reference/Legislation/Vetoes/vetoCounts.htm" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Vetoes</a>. <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/BidenJR.htm">Notice something about the 10 bills Biden has vetoed?</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/washington-dc-crime-bill-biden-what-matters/index.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden and the DC Crime Bill</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/president-biden-veto-what-matters/index.html">Biden and the ESG Bill</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.52px;"><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/saps.php" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Statements of Administration Policy</a> (<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/statements-of-administration-policy/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Biden examples</a>)</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1— Strongly Support Passage<br />2— Support Passage<br />3— Do not Object to Passage<br />4— No Position on Passage<br />5— Oppose<br />6— Strongly Oppose<br />7— Secretary’s Veto Threat (single and multiple agency)<br />8— Senior Advisor’s Veto Threat<br /><a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAP-H.J.-Res.-30.pdf">9—<span style="color: #c5224d;"> Presidential Veto Threat</span></a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OLdo3vXb5_UC&pg=PA217&dq=gingrich+%22how+could+we+have+forgotten+that%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Aq5lUaiFM-OQiAKExoDAAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=gingrich%20%22how%20could%20we%20have%20forgotten%20that%22&f=false" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Newt Gingrich, <i>Lessons Learned the Hard Way</i> (1998)</a>:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="font-size: large;">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.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">Item Veto: <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1997/97-1374" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court struck it down in <i>Clinton v. City of New York</i>.</a></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2007/nov/07/mitt-romney/mostly-guilty-of-killing-the-line-item-veto/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2007/nov/07/mitt-romney/mostly-guilty-of-killing-the-line-item-veto/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Guess who was primarily responsible..</span></a></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.52px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/signingstatements.php" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Signing statements</a> </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4704429468573425771" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 600px;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="font-size: 14.52px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <i>de facto </i>item veto?</span></li><li style="font-size: 14.52px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF4eFSKFmcc" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">As a candidate, Obama opposed signing statements </a>-- but<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-circumvents-laws-with-signing-statements-a-tool-he-promised-to-use-lightly/2014/06/02/9d76d46a-ea73-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"> as president, he issued them</a></span></li><li style="font-size: 14.52px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.coherentbabble.com/listDJTall.htm" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump examples</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/app-categories/presidential/statements/signing-statements"><span style="font-size: large;">Biden examples</span></a></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/16/obama-presidential-memoranda-executive-orders/20191805/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other forms of executive action</span></a></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">National security <span style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed08.asp" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Hamilton in Federalist 8</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed08.asp" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">: </a>"It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority."</span> (more in two weeks)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Executive orders</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/proclamations.php" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidential proclamations</a> </span></li><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/emergency-powers" style="color: #ffdb39; text-decoration-line: none;">National Emergencies Act: special powers</a> </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">National emergency</span></a></li></ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/presidential-memoranda" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidential memoranda</a> and <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump examples</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.aila.org/infonet/dhs-exercising-prosecutorial-discretion" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Agency memoranda (DACA)</span></a></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-revoking-trumps-executive-orders-isnt-enough-to-undo-their-effects/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">But what one administration does unilaterally, another administration can try to undo unilaterall</a>y:</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/09/05/memorandum-rescission-daca" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reversal of DACA</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Reversal of border emergency</a></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Courts can also undo actions. <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/15-674" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The case of DAPA -- <i>US v. Texas</i></a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Power to Persuade</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/G7KZogmtlRU" style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">LBJ and negotiation</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/nicholas-e-calio-oral-history" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interview with the Bush leg affairs shop</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/louisa-terrell-legislative-director/index.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Biden legislative affairs shop</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="http://gov101.blogspot.com/2020/03/congress-decides.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c5224d;">CQ on presidential success</span> (review from a few weeks ago)</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7aD65-twslOCDEn8G9V8rTbGq-qRNSZldJZX_xsfP3EzqzLrSDXA3VrmmPqiq-AauZZOHX6gzl0tTwc-5a4naM93Qe_-zq2V7AZNhiY8R_hQIQehxUFBkRTNoOIafifFLIGyuq4CMpTiw0gtiR1Rsk2NDM3VYQghfNylC0iacHiF4sPnVJIlU3bfg-ZXr/s1920/2022_01_prez-success2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Presidential approval and the "decay curve"</a></span></div></div>Michael Gadinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526309410213201966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-79571769463070421712024-02-27T19:14:00.000-08:002024-02-28T09:46:19.088-08:00Political Deals II<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">For next week, Davidson, ch. 10. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Student hours tomorrow <i>by appointment only</i>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">Reviewing research sources</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/statements-administration-policy-reagan-1985" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Statements of Administration Policy</a> -- indications of whether POTUS will sign or veto.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying">Lobbying data</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Congress.gov (http://www.congress.gov/</a>) -- official site for bill summary and status</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">GovTrack (<a href="http://www.govtrack.us/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.govtrack.us</a>/) – unofficial site for congressional information</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">ProQuest Congressional (<a href="http://congressional.proquest.com/profiles/gis/search/basic/basicsearch" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">http://congressional.proquest.com/profiles/gis/search/basic/basicsearch</a> ). -- many congressional documents including searchable <i>Congressional Record</i>. If your computer will not accept this URL, go through the library web page <a href="https://gov101.blogspot.com/(http://library.claremont.edu" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">(http://library.claremont.edu</a>). Click “databases,” then the letter “P,” then “ProQuest Congressional.”)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Committee web pages, which usually contain testimony and text of reports. See <a href="http://www.house.gov/committees/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.house.gov/committees/</a> or <a href="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.senate.gov/committees/index.htm</a></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Crisis and Scandal as a Prod to Action</span><br /></span><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gbv0zkjtFm0" width="560"></iframe></div><p><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">Public Lands Case Study</b></p><div><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="http://unm-bioblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/wild-about-public-lands.html" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most public lands are in the West:</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> <img alt="Image result for public lands forests map" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVCrhyphenhyphencjz0ZpfP4YCWq48365B95pxuIvYsA34r7RBlBOEIR_jklIgbZ2GGtodLKt8FoAUkdiHfWJ3erTizOKc6-484m72PQotKrabe9Fl7kPIPrQzAVgPdn0-aN2VsFwXubwDhhkPAas/s640/Federal-and-State-Land-1024x633.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="640" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/12/senate-just-passed-decades-biggest-public-lands-package-heres-whats-it/?utm_term=.f0b09cd59198" style="background-color: yellow; color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Public Lands 2019</span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">A couple of quotations about Congress and life in general:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><ul><li>"At some point somebody has to decide, let's do it the old-fashioned way, which is `one thing I hate for one thing I love.'" (Lawrence, p. 39)</li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Here's a list of what we have to have. Here's a list of the ones we really, really hate. Here's a list of `if you put this language on page 4 we could swallow it.' And then you work that list." (Lawrence, pp. 40-41).</span></li></ul></span><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #c5224d; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3979/actions" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The vehicle</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf">The military administers 8.8 million acres of land</a>)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1356/all-actions?overview=closed">Suspension of the rules</a> gets around germaneness issues.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">More recent examples:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/house-passes-ndaa-with-padilla-bill-to-protect-public-lands/">Public lands provision of 2021 NDAA</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.autismpolicyblog.com/2023/03/the-politics-of-autism-problem.html">Kevin and Avonte's Law</a></span></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-commodity-policy/farm-bill-spending/"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS PRIMARILY A SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY.</span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">The Dairy Cliff:</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VsGRzVGIi-k?si=XuVndQYrrGqKms-i" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>SIMULATION</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://gov101.blogspot.com/2023/02/2023-simulation-roster.html"><span style="font-size: large;"> Last year's roster</span></a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://gov101.blogspot.com/2023/03/sim-2023.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Last year's rules.</span></a></p></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/02/04/farm-bill-passes-after-three-years-of-talks/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2014 farm bill</a> and the "dairy cliff" penalty default</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-18700348347540914472024-02-26T17:02:00.000-08:002024-02-26T17:02:44.359-08:00Simulation Roles 2024<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Judiciary</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Cornyn (TX) Richard Cordero </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Cruz (TX) Lewis White </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Tillis (NC) Lauren Fue </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">McConnell (KY)* Richa Parikh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sonja Woolley </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Henry Otte
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Hassan (NH) Nicole Jonassen </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Sinema (AZ) Ryan Lenney </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Rosen (NV) David Walker </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-35725420972500808762024-02-26T10:02:00.000-08:002024-02-26T10:02:18.841-08:00Art of the Political Deal I<p><span style="font-size: large;">Simulation roles</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">End around 12:10 for mtg.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dtingley/files/negotiating_agreement_in_politics.pdf" style="color: #224dc5; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Conditions for Deliberative Negotiation</a><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"> (Lawrence, p. 14)</span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acceptable sources of information</b>. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Repeated interactions </span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Penalty defaults (<a href="https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1761878696988962816?s=20">shutdown looms IRL</a>)</span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Privacy</span></b></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="http://www.apsanet.org/portals/54/Files/Task%20Force%20Reports/Chapter3Mansbridge.pdf" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Integrative Negotiation and linkage: <i style="background-color: yellow;">It takes a logjam to logroll</i>.</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-murray-ryan-budget-deal-and-the-slow-death-of-public-investment/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Budget sequestration</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/12/SHORTSUMMARY_final.pdf" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Murray-Ryan: A summary</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59946">Coda: They pretty much gave up on deficit control</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /><br />Crisis and Scandal as a Prod to Action</span><br /></span><br /><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gbv0zkjtFm0" width="560"></iframe></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/208396-sanders-mccain-reach-deal-on-va-bill" style="background-color: white; color: #224dc5; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Sanders and McCain find a deal</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><a href="https://youtu.be/VUNbbWOi_io" style="background-color: white; color: #224dc5; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Bernie Sanders and John McCain</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><b>Policy Windows</b> and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/articles/Downs_Public_Interest_1972.pdf" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The Issue-Attention Cycle</a></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />"The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood -- it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, `Too late.'" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.<br /></span><div><div><span style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, palatino linotype, palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><div><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/11/09/america-has-an-infrastructure-bill-what-happens-next/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">Coda II: Infrastructure and the important of policy windows</a></div><div><span style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, palatino linotype, palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br style="background-color: white;" /></b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><img alt="Image result for issue-attention cycle" src="https://arrc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/public-policyanalysis-28-638.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; padding: 5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Public Lands Case Study</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="http://unm-bioblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/wild-about-public-lands.html" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most public lands are in the West:</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> <img alt="Image result for public lands forests map" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBVCrhyphenhyphencjz0ZpfP4YCWq48365B95pxuIvYsA34r7RBlBOEIR_jklIgbZ2GGtodLKt8FoAUkdiHfWJ3erTizOKc6-484m72PQotKrabe9Fl7kPIPrQzAVgPdn0-aN2VsFwXubwDhhkPAas/s640/Federal-and-State-Land-1024x633.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="640" /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/12/senate-just-passed-decades-biggest-public-lands-package-heres-whats-it/?utm_term=.f0b09cd59198" style="background-color: yellow; color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Public Lands 2019</span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">A couple of quotations about Congress and life in general:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><ul><li>"At some point somebody has to decide, let's do it the old-fashioned way, which is `one thing I hate for one thing I love.'" (Lawrence, p. 39)</li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Here's a list of what we have to have. Here's a list of the ones we really, really hate. Here's a list of `if you put this language on page 4 we could swallow it.' And then you work that list." (Lawrence, pp. 40-41).</span></li></ul></span><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #c5224d; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3979/actions" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The vehicle</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42346.pdf">The military administers 8.8 million acres of land</a>)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.gop.gov/bill/senate-amendment-to-h-r-3979-national-defense-authorization-act-for-fy-2015/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The writeup </a> -- <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141213204536/https://www.gop.gov/app/uploads/2014/12/NDAA-Natural-Resources-Briefing-Docs.pdf" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">summary of provisions (and an illustration of Archive.org)</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-commodity-policy/farm-bill-spending/"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS PRIMARILY A SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY.</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/02/04/farm-bill-passes-after-three-years-of-talks/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2014 farm bill</a> and the "dairy cliff" penalty default (Lawrence, p. 51)</span></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VsGRzVGIi-k" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-16886524480468687462024-02-21T10:02:00.000-08:002024-02-21T10:02:06.834-08:00Decisions and Interest Groups<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>For Monday, read Lawrence, all (it is a short, easy-to-read book)</span><span> </span><b><i><u>and bring it to class.</u></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">On Monday, we shall do role selection. If you cannot make it to class, ask someone to represent you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-deboo-58314185/">On Wednesday, we shall have a guest speaker who will discuss legislative bargaining.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For your papers, do NOT worry about first and second readings. Focus on key status steps (committee action, rules, floor votes) and patterns of support and opposition.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Foreign lobbying (pp. 382-83)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIG13HZ1idY">Russian influence in the news</a> </span><span><a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/smirnov.pdf">DOJ</a>: "He is actively peddling new lies that
could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Other covert means:</span></span></p><ul style="font-size: x-large;"><li><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512526-manafort-shared-campaign-info-with-russian-intelligence-officer">Manafort</a></li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17581354/maria-butina-russia-nra-trump">Butina</a> (and a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/world/europe/maria-butina-russia-duma.html">postscript</a>)</li></ul><p><span style="font-size: large;">Overt means:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/02/russia-pouring-millions-into-foreign-influence-and-lobbying-targeting-the-u-s-amid-escalating-ukraine-conflict/">Direct means</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/one-america-news-spoon-feeding-its-viewers-russian-propaganda-about-war">Inirect means</a></li></ul></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;"><a href="https://justfacts.votesmart.org/interest-groups">Interest group ratings</a> (375-76)</span></span><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, palatino linotype, palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/congressional-scorecard">HRC</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, palatino linotype, palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.uschamber.com/congressional-scorecard-and-legislative-leadership-list">US Chamber of Commerce</a></span></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">Influence</span></div></div><div><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em; text-align: left;"><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">WH<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/nra-gun-control-florida.html">Y WAS THE NRA POWERFUL?<span style="color: #c5224d;"> </span><i style="color: #c5224d;"><b><u style="background-color: yellow;">IT IS NOT THE PAC CONTRIBUTION</u></b></i></a> (Note that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/26/nra-uvalde-shooting-trump-cruz-gop/">NRA has gotten weaker</a>) </span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Always think about the grassroots.</span></li><ul><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/">How many households have guns?</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">How many Americans are economically dependent on fossil fuels? <a href="https://www.energyinfrastructure.org/energy-101/jobs#:~:text=The%20oil%20and%20natural%20gas,5.6%25%20of%20total%20U.S.%20employment.">The industry itself</a> and i<a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/america-keeps-on-trucking.html">ndustries that depend on fossil fuels</a></span></li></ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bessettepitney.net/2014/02/the-daschle-loophole.html" style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;">The "Daschle Loophole"</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;"> -- </span><a href="http://gov115.blogspot.com/2009/02/daschle-and-new-media.html" style="color: #c5224d; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;">his ill-fated HHS nomination</a></span></li><ul style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/summary"><span style="font-size: large;">Lobby numbers</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/shadow-lobbying" style="color: #c5224d; font-size: x-large;">Deregistration</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/shadow-lobbying-complex/" style="color: #c5224d;"><span style="font-size: large;">A graphic</span></a></li></ul></ul><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBdJm_Io6iwsB5wW5j4N3MrshRyNj4SO3rZKeJytNNMj4NCFkZQQyxpyH9QyTYT5rW1SDZ3H2fg_e9OcpY_Zrd8yn9ABbfvYh7cFBzWjLTTb04PT14gb9SHlhLqHIgzm-lrkmQK_C-lqhDwidSyC6lBWAHZ5FaiUaFtHqQecb912fkGBM6cODAbRvPeQ=s1822" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1746" data-original-width="1822" height="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBdJm_Io6iwsB5wW5j4N3MrshRyNj4SO3rZKeJytNNMj4NCFkZQQyxpyH9QyTYT5rW1SDZ3H2fg_e9OcpY_Zrd8yn9ABbfvYh7cFBzWjLTTb04PT14gb9SHlhLqHIgzm-lrkmQK_C-lqhDwidSyC6lBWAHZ5FaiUaFtHqQecb912fkGBM6cODAbRvPeQ=w640-h613" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bessettepitney.net/2019/09/covert-food-lobby-group.html">Think tanks</a></span></li><ul style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/us/politics/think-tank-scholars-corporate-consultants.html" style="color: #c5224d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consultants</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/politics/john-allen-justice-department-investigation.html">Brookings and Qatar</a></span></li></ul><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="hhttps://mikethompson.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/thompson-honored-with-american-farm-bureau-federations-friend-of-farm-bureau" style="color: #c5224d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recognition and awards</span></a></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philanthropy</span></li><ul style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/orrin-hatch-foundation-230555" style="color: #c5224d;">Politicians' charities </a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2018/how-corporations-disguise-lobbying-as-philanthropy/">government relations</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bessettepitney.net/2014/02/corporate-rent-friend.html" style="color: #c5224d;">Rent-a-friend</a> as <a href="http://www.bessettepitney.net/2011/06/philanthropy-as-deep-lobbying.html" style="color: #c5224d;">deep lobbying</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bessettepitney.net/2013/08/the-fnancial-services-institute-and.html" style="color: #c5224d;">Lobbyist cites letter that he ghost-wrote</a>!</span></li></ul><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes?item=qt0324886" style="color: #c5224d;"><span style="font-size: large;">A summary</span></a></li></ul><p></p><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-550217425774956212024-02-19T10:06:00.000-08:002024-02-19T12:57:25.964-08:00Congressional Decisions<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">For Wednesday, Davidson, ch. 13.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">Questions on paper? Comments on papers: SW= page numbers in Strunk and White.<br /><br />The winners: Judiciary and Homeland Security. In our simulated Senate, Reps are in the majority. McConnell and Schumer are not on Judiciary IRL, but I added them for simulation purposes.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Judiciary</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Republicans<span> </span><span> Democrats</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Graham<span> (SC) </span><span> </span><span>Durbin (IL)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Cornyn<span> (TX) </span><span> </span><span>Booker (NJ)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Cruz<span> (TX) </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Klobuchar (MN)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Tillis (NC)<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Schumer (NY)* (plus committee proxy)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Blackburn (TN)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">McConnell (KY)*</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Homeland Security</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Paul<span> (KY) </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Peters (MI)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Lankford (OK)<span> </span><span> </span><span> Hassan (NH)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>Romney<span> (UT) </span><span> </span><span> Sinema (AZ)</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span>Scott<span> (FL) </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Rosen (NV)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>Hawley (MO)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Reviewing Variations of Lawmaking<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/LqquhTCdzDY">Vote-a-Rama</a><br /><a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS22309.pdf">Rule XIV of the Senate:</a><br /><blockquote>The Senate’s standing committees play an essential part in the legislative process, as they select the small percentage of the bills introduced each Congress that, in their judgment, deserve the attention of the Senate as a whole, and as they recommend amendments to these bills based on their expert knowledge and experience. Most bills are routinely referred to the committee with appropriate jurisdiction as soon as they are introduced. However, paragraph 4 of Rule XIV permits a Senator to bypass a committee referral and have the bill placed directly on the Calendar of Business, with exactly the same formal status the bill would have if it had been considered and reported by a Senate committee.<br /><br />Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading.<br /><br />The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time.<br /><br />The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:<br /><br />A bill (S. 1035) to extend authority relating to roving surveillance, access to business records, and individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and for other purposes.<br /><br />Mr. MCCONNELL. I now ask for a second reading and, in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request.<br /><br />The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the bill will be read for the second time on the next legislative day.2</blockquote><br /><a href="https://rollcall.com/2007/09/14/hotlined-bills-spark-concern/">Hotlining </a>-- <a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/risch-rubio-move-senate-to-consider-hong-kong-bill">a 2019 example</a><br /><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3756165-earmarking-is-new-and-improved-republicans-should-support-it/">Earmarking </a>and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-case-for-restoring-earmarks/2018/01/23/6840063c-ffc7-11e7-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html">Phonemarking</a><br /><a href="https://rollcall.com/2021/09/20/house-democrats-should-be-careful-they-dont-get-btud/">BTU'd</a><br /><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-senate-conference-committee-meeting-wednesday-to-avoid-another-government-shutdown">Alternative to conference: "message between houses" or Ping-ponging</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Individual Decisions<br />Specialization and the importance of biography (Davidson, p. 247)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbeK2Md0zEI">Feinstein and guns</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/26/adam-schiff-russia-hawk-524-226983/">Schiff and counterintelligence</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-y5RdFCik">Cotton and the military</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">Timing<br /><br /><br />Party Unity (Davidson p. 256). <b>TO ANALYZE A ROLL-CALL VOTE, LOOK AT THE EXCEPTIONS: THE MEMBERS WHO BROKE PARTY RANKS. </b><a href="https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/3210/">Marshall Bessey thesis on the impeachment Republicans</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://rollcall.com/2024/02/08/house-gop-had-lowest-win-rate-on-party-unity-votes-since-1982/">From <i>Roll Call</i>:</a><br /><br /><a href="https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/3210/"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/3210/"></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TifRGRDBzXvSMbfwiw08AK3z6GRFoHnIiT8u8K7IvnGr_UupDLK3sbGCuGQcNRhEwfvhMKjTOWONHVsFPsKG2GEJFYfa0xwCsBa5VatLXmDbLoyPCujiO5aX8-HKkgTOJ_FtLkBlQ1tNSmqGzrpZFj6OE_u0O3ofqZv875L33sx2K5it-L7sBMqwcPyf/s850/2023_unity_trend3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="850" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TifRGRDBzXvSMbfwiw08AK3z6GRFoHnIiT8u8K7IvnGr_UupDLK3sbGCuGQcNRhEwfvhMKjTOWONHVsFPsKG2GEJFYfa0xwCsBa5VatLXmDbLoyPCujiO5aX8-HKkgTOJ_FtLkBlQ1tNSmqGzrpZFj6OE_u0O3ofqZv875L33sx2K5it-L7sBMqwcPyf/w640-h380/2023_unity_trend3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh172rUEX_Dzb6e2xnXiMy9WrWil9xrHGm4VFh2Zc5ahYEvj_BKv5F3VmgBLzC5ylCH7JGbRDcWRK3ojq3aLRRWxh1R_r9rP_GxQEMUyDbxHb3yE10zJ7K_RdK-RrKv7vbq0aXwuxcmRzF55Y61xv-_AvGeOlEWVQzT4G6ZnmSdGEiiVnti7xbr-edhyphenhyphennTW/s850/2023_unity-summary2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="850" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh172rUEX_Dzb6e2xnXiMy9WrWil9xrHGm4VFh2Zc5ahYEvj_BKv5F3VmgBLzC5ylCH7JGbRDcWRK3ojq3aLRRWxh1R_r9rP_GxQEMUyDbxHb3yE10zJ7K_RdK-RrKv7vbq0aXwuxcmRzF55Y61xv-_AvGeOlEWVQzT4G6ZnmSdGEiiVnti7xbr-edhyphenhyphennTW/w640-h402/2023_unity-summary2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />DO NOT TRY TO REDUCE ROLL CALL VOTES TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. Consider primary and general election constituencies.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://legacy.voteview.com/political_polarization_2014.htm">History and DW-Nominate</a> (Davidson 263)<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8qYnrefRH9lddFEV8de1FTNmsc7iy08UhGGbrSwnuCH3VSlXsVRVuSnuY8BB3PZKvlZz9Z_pE3cf45ylb8k00hh1wCAGCqOaHGvpZkIqlbAR4ehgbPFj58WsyTt8EXu8klOSkVOOYDeccVGZkyYVSLAVmEx11-A3IY2Z66f0e9Kg0tErltksZEznMOA=s1276"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8qYnrefRH9lddFEV8de1FTNmsc7iy08UhGGbrSwnuCH3VSlXsVRVuSnuY8BB3PZKvlZz9Z_pE3cf45ylb8k00hh1wCAGCqOaHGvpZkIqlbAR4ehgbPFj58WsyTt8EXu8klOSkVOOYDeccVGZkyYVSLAVmEx11-A3IY2Z66f0e9Kg0tErltksZEznMOA=w640-h342" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvsO6YQkrjFLHyd1W_gGsU8FdSZsBs77_cYdKozzqly50IpXHIFg0RCjPxyON2HiWhBlkYqo_4_t7DsNtI8E-iNl2Q-bVUqjWSSoEGM6HtTVlh7-XhxEdPLqsCFZC5tDJb7EfNtqtyZ9E1hqQNhHN3vRUIG5AWkiq8AOWfFkL2UD9K5WPXAC_Kzp3ltw=s1276"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvsO6YQkrjFLHyd1W_gGsU8FdSZsBs77_cYdKozzqly50IpXHIFg0RCjPxyON2HiWhBlkYqo_4_t7DsNtI8E-iNl2Q-bVUqjWSSoEGM6HtTVlh7-XhxEdPLqsCFZC5tDJb7EfNtqtyZ9E1hqQNhHN3vRUIG5AWkiq8AOWfFkL2UD9K5WPXAC_Kzp3ltw=w640-h342" /></a>This measurement is extremely influential in political science. <a href="https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-mismeasurement-of-polarization">It is also extremely flawed</a>.<br /><br />Bargaining and cues<br /><br /><br />Cosponsorship and <a href="https://stopthehit.com/news-item/read-dear-colleague-letter-reps-noem-sinema/">Dear Colleague</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-32851032187788615522024-02-14T13:03:00.000-08:002024-02-14T13:03:39.171-08:00<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/us/politics/congress-discharge-petition-ukraine.html">NYT article "How Congress Could Bypass Republican Opposition to Funding Ukraine:</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This article brought up another interesting legislative process we haven't covered: the discharge petition. However, as stated in the article, neither party wants this to happen regularly, and it is an "arduous and time-consuming process that has rarely seen success in recent decades."</p>Richa Parikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04622201706428977867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-59680527674322028712024-02-14T10:51:00.000-08:002024-02-14T10:51:32.492-08:00Legislative Process<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FLjblX0oguo?si=pKLep_dBULigseAA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Simulation issues and committees?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For next Tuesday, Davidson, ch. 9</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Committee work</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTN4oKoca7k" style="font-size: x-large;">Legislative hearings</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfL8pyjwp8" style="font-size: x-large;">oversight hearings</a></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_NULoJyNAw"><span>Celebrity Witnesses</span></a> -- <i><a href="https://www.insider.com/celebrities-actors-singers-testified-congress">a partial list</a> </i>(Davidson 192)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xuCTNNZsU">Markup</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/senate-report/264/1">A committee report on eliminating useless reports</a></span></li><li><a href="https://rules.house.gov/"><span style="font-size: large;">Rules Committee</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> (Davidson 216-219)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/floor-protocols.htm"><span>The suspension calendar</span></a> (Davidson 214-215 OF 19th ed): </span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2021/02/24/the-long-arm-of-defund-the-police-491879"><span>Even post office renamings can get controversial in these polarized times</span></a>.</span></li></ul></ul><div><div></div></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Open, Closed, Structured rules</span></li></ul><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiYE-IckjuRNgykeIG-lr9PlBlzg8PyC7D0BQXqJBT30SO8yoIk1K4eDdBlGm1F67KUzOlScgP0k9-AFzRP7EBEhjjEpTb3KbpGv28bheWCKkIXjdqvxpwAvSMvss_ZOS5GOadhHd8O8geMBdWkW4twnY5a9Q9H1zVQ5KILttjpBqFnjoqwh5NAUb3Q/s605/rules.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="605" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiYE-IckjuRNgykeIG-lr9PlBlzg8PyC7D0BQXqJBT30SO8yoIk1K4eDdBlGm1F67KUzOlScgP0k9-AFzRP7EBEhjjEpTb3KbpGv28bheWCKkIXjdqvxpwAvSMvss_ZOS5GOadhHd8O8geMBdWkW4twnY5a9Q9H1zVQ5KILttjpBqFnjoqwh5NAUb3Q/s16000/rules.png" /></a></div></div><ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Motion to proceed to consider: A motion in the Senate, which, if agreed to by a majority of those present and voting, brings a measure (e.g., bill) or matter (e.g., nomination) before the chamber for consideration. Often referred to simply as a “motion to proceed.”</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://stevesnotes.substack.com/p/note-20-house-special-rules">Motion to recommit in the House</a></span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpJfxvV75Ac">Filibuster and flip-flops</a></span></li></ul><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Exception: <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/what-is-reconciliation/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Reconciliation</a></span></li></ul><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.epicjourney2008.com/2018/05/mccarthy-signed-19-discharge-petitions.html">Discharge petition flip-flops</a> (<a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/13/house-democrats-ukraine-vote-discharge-petition">lotsa luck this time</a>)</span></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Basic Amendment Tree, Senate Version </span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOURkMSwnkahAmlplNA4huOFe1h47mJrhx7vVlCV_wX32gjBdL8SImFPGd10hP4H6J7OP6CFoeqAJDYsh4HtvOApYzSX6AMOaq77gasiSomi3Bs2I103LRP3l9ODMtFDOf40OgniqByVq/s1600/Amendment+Treee.png" style="color: #c5224d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="645" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOURkMSwnkahAmlplNA4huOFe1h47mJrhx7vVlCV_wX32gjBdL8SImFPGd10hP4H6J7OP6CFoeqAJDYsh4HtvOApYzSX6AMOaq77gasiSomi3Bs2I103LRP3l9ODMtFDOf40OgniqByVq/s1600/Amendment+Treee.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/738b4c8d-66ee-4c11-9b6a-176194c4456a.pdf" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">A CRS report on Senate amendments:</a><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">Senate precedents set out three principles of precedence among amendments that are directed to the same text: </span></blockquote><blockquote><ol><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A second-degree amendment has precedence over a first-degree amendment;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A motion to insert and a motion to strike out and insert have precedence over a motion to strike out; and</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A perfecting amendment (and an amendment to it) has precedence over a substitute amendment (and an amendment to it). </span></li></ol></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">The first of these principles is axiomatic. A second-degree amendment is an amendment to a first degree amendment, and it must be offered while the first-degree amendment is pending—that is, after the first-degree amendment has been offered but before the Senate has disposed of it. The Senate also acts on an amendment to a first-degree amendment before it acts on the first-degree amendment itself. So this principle conforms to Senate practice under both meanings of precedence.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">It may be helpful in understanding the second two principles to think about decisions the Senate needs to make about a text. Changing the text of an amendment, through a second-degree amendment, could “cure” a problem Senators may have had with the amendment’s original language. That could obviate the need to strike out the text </span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/88c49b6d-83d7-402a-9c15-9c9ecf7decbc.pdf" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate Procedure and Rule XIV "I object to my own request"</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, through objection, a bill after two readings is prevented from being referred to committee and is placed directly on the Senate’s Calendar of Business. It is usually the majority leader (or a Senator acting in the majority leader’s stead), acting on his own or at the request of any other Senator, who objects to “further proceeding”—committee referral—on a measure.</span></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.legbranch.org/how-mcconnell-blocked-amendments-on-the-defense-bill/">How Mitch filled the tree </a></span></blockquote><p></p><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46769.pdf">Filling the tree</a>: a pause in the 117th Congress</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div></div></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-size: large;">Just prior to Senate approval of S.Res. 27, the majority and minority leaders engaged in a colloquy on the floor to share additional information regarding their intentions for floor operations in the 117th Congress. ... The colloquy concerned two Senate practices that have become more common in recent Congresses. First, it has become common for the majority leader to “fill the amendment tree,” a process that temporarily blocks other Senators from offering amendments, except by unanimous consent. ... Regarding the amendment process, the majority leader announced in the colloquy: "I am a strong supporter of the right of Senators to offer amendments and commit to increase</span><div><span style="font-size: large;">dramatically the number of Member-initiated amendments offered in the 117thCongress. I am also opposed to limiting amendments by “filling the tree” unless dilatory measures</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">prevent the Senate from taking action and leave no alternative."</span></div></div><div> </div></blockquote></div><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">Other processes</span></div></div><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LqquhTCdzDY" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Vote-a-Rama </a> </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/congress-ese-thats-hotlining" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Hotlining </a> -- <a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/risch-rubio-move-senate-to-consider-hong-kong-bill" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">a 2019 example</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/power-restored/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Earmarking </a>and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-case-for-restoring-earmarks/2018/01/23/6840063c-ffc7-11e7-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;">Phonemarking</a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://rollcall.com/2021/09/20/house-democrats-should-be-careful-they-dont-get-btud/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">BTU'd</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-senate-conference-committee-meeting-wednesday-to-avoid-another-government-shutdown" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alternative to conference: "message between houses" or Ping-ponging</span></a></li></ul></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><blockquote><br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-87921108708414634072024-02-12T10:51:00.000-08:002024-02-12T10:51:35.768-08:00Bills and Committees<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Stylistic comments</span></span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/composition/thesis.htm">Please, no "the purpose of this paper is..."</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">In US English, periods and commas go inside quotation marks. Superscripts follow punctuation.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/dangling_modifiers_and_how_to_correct_them.html">Do not dangle your modifiers</a> or <a href="https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/grammar/split-infinitives.shtml">split your infinitives</a>!</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://writingstudio.gsu.edu/files/2021/02/Avoiding-Dropped-Quotes-1.pdf">Avoid dropped quotations</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.oftwominds.com/blog-photos/open-kimono.jpg">Cut down on -ize words and management-speak</a>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Avoid the passive.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Use endnotes with Arabic numerals.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>For next time, Davidson, ch. 8</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;">Simulation committees?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/committees">The committee system</a></span></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">How members end up on committees</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Steering committees" in <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46786.pdf">House</a> & <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/committee-system/committee-assignments.htm">Senate</a> (Davidson 195 of 18th ed.p p. 180 of 19th ed)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Speaker-appointed House committees: Rules, House Administration, Intelligence</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Seniority and other criteria</span></li></ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Removals; The case of <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/76/text?s=8&r=3&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22omar%22%5D%7D">Ilhan Omar</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">House and Senate jurisdictions are not quite the same.</span></li></ul></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OgVKvqTItto" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqBLTz4HIug" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/02/shadow-congress-bipartisan-deals/622871/"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;">LEGISLATION REALLY CAN PASS </span></b></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/12/senate-just-passed-decades-biggest-public-lands-package-heres-whats-it/">Also see 2019 public lands bill. </a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/47">Congress.gov record of the bill</a><br /><br />We shall read Jill Lawrence's account of <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/profiles-in-negotiation-the-public-lands-deal-of-2014/">a similar bill from a few years ago.</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bill Drafting </b><br /></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Inspiration-Legislation-Idea-Becomes-Bill/dp/0131107542" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">How an idea becomes a bill</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Types of measures</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://legcounsel.house.gov/holc-guide-legislative-drafting" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Drafting guide</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/72/text?r=4&s=1" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">An example of legislative language: "Keep Our PACT Act"</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://slc.senate.gov/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senate Legislative Counsel</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://legcounsel.house.gov/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">House Legislative Counsel</span></a></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3810917-the-seven-quirkiest-bill-names-using-acronyms/"><b><span style="color: #224dc5;">Acronym Bills</span></b><br /></a></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/holding-230-hostage-sen-graham-demands-platforms-earn-it" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The EARN IT Act</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/198/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22warner%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=2" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The STOP STUPIDITY Act</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/25/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22cruz%22%5D%7D&r=4&s=3" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The EL CHAPO Act</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-gallagher-introduce-omar-act-stop-lawmakers-funneling-campaign-cash" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The OMAR Act</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.rosen.senate.gov/2023/07/14/rosen-scott-bipartisan-no-corruption-act-to-safeguard-taxpayer-dollars-punish-corrupt-politicians-passes-senate/">The NO CORRUPTION Act</a></span></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rules</b><br /></span></span><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://rules.house.gov/rules-and-resources" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">House Rules</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Rules_and_Procedure_vrd.htm" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senate Rules</span></a></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-05-05/trumpcares-not-unusual-members-of-congress-often-dont-read-bills" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Do They Read The Bills? No. </a></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">USA PATRIOT Act: “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism</span></div><div><br /></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TiNUgJcNRJY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-64782929478157306902024-02-12T10:05:00.000-08:002024-02-12T10:05:58.385-08:00Second Assignment, Spring 2024<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">CHOOSE ONE:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>1. Pick any bill from the 117th or 118th Congress</span><span>. Explain its fate. Instead of giving a mere chronology, tell why the measure moved or stalled. What had happened to previous versions? Which groups or blocs backed and fought it? Did the administration take a position? Which strategies and tactics did its friends and foes use? Even if it failed or stalled, did it prompt the passage of a similar measure in a different form? Look at parliamentary strategies, major amendments, and roll calls. Again, you should </span><i>explain the outcome</i><span>, not just describe the process. Some possible topics:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>118th Congress</span></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/26">H.J. Res. 26 (DC criminal law)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/30">H.J. Res. 30 (shareholder rights)</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/26">HR 26 (late-term abortion)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670">HR 2670 (National Defense Authorization)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3746/text">HR 3746 (Fiscal Responsibility Act)</a></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">117th Congress</span></div><p></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/350/text">HR 350 (domestic terrorism)</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346" style="font-size: x-large;">HR 4346 (chips and science)</a></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5376/text">HR 5376 (Inflation Reduction Act)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5746">HR 5746 (voting rights)</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/Rodihan-Congress.pdf"><i>HERE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF SUCH A PAPER</i></a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></span><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">2. Pick pending legislation that has not yet passed either house. Write a memo to its prime sponsor detailing a plausible strategy for securing its passage at least in one chamber. In your answer, consider all phases of the legislative process and take account of the influence of interest groups and the administration. And of course, remember the tight partisan balance in each chamber.<br /><br />Get background from a source such as <i><a href="https://library.cqpress.com/cqmagazine/">CQ Magazine </a></i>where you may find the partisan breakdown of roll-call votes. <br /><br />Other possible sources include:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/presidential-documents-archive-guidebook/statements-administration-policy-reagan-1985">Statements of Administration Policy</a> -- indications of whether POTUS will sign or veto.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/">Congress.gov (http://www.congress.gov/</a>) -- official site for bill summary and status</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">GovTrack (<a href="http://www.govtrack.us/">http://www.govtrack.us</a>/) – unofficial site for congressional information</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span>ProQuest Congressional</span> </span>(<a href="http://congressional.proquest.com/profiles/gis/search/basic/basicsearch" style="font-size: x-large;">http://congressional.proquest.com/profiles/gis/search/basic/basicsearch</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ). -- many congressional documents including searchable Congressional Record. If your computer will not accept this URL, go through the library web page </span><a href="(http://library.claremont.edu" style="font-size: x-large;">(http://library.claremont.edu</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">). Click “databases,” then the letter “P,” then “ProQuest Congressional.”)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Committee web pages, which usually contain testimony and text of reports. See <a href="http://www.house.gov/committees/">http://www.house.gov/committees/</a> or <a href="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm">https://www.senate.gov/committees/index.htm</a></span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Essays should be typed, double-spaced, and no more than five pages long. I will not read past the fifth page. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Submit papers as Word documents, not pdfs or Google docs.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cite your sources with endnotes in <a href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/turabian/citation-guide.html">standard Turabian format</a>. Endnote pages do not count against the page limit.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Misrepresenting AI-generated content as your own work is plagiarism and will result in severe consequences.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you -- <i>especially errors that I have noted on previous papers</i>. Return essays (again, as Word documents, not pdfs) to the Sakai dropbox by 11:59 PM, Friday, March 1. I reserve the right to dock papers will one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.</span></li></ul></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-25175829136330521902024-02-11T23:46:00.000-08:002024-02-11T23:46:33.844-08:00Kennedy Super Bowl Ad!!!???!!!<p> <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4461997-kennedy-pac-surprises-with-super-bowl-ad/">The Hill article</a></p><p>I only watched 10 percent of the Super Bowl, and I was very caught off guard by this $7 million ad for RFK! I also know this isn't strictly Congress-related, but I thought it would be amusing for the group. </p><p>Bootleg version of the ad: <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/80Z48p9_HXA?si=iBMFkYzGiHdTTy4h">https://youtube.com/shorts/80Z48p9_HXA?si=iBMFkYzGiHdTTy4h</a></p>Nicole Jonassenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450653607754164494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-53670395008346204602024-02-07T10:59:00.000-08:002024-02-07T12:25:38.044-08:00Parties and Leadership II<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iI3ljpWuNPw?si=MT018z5ECcv1sJz1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lxbDfYRfxb4?si=dW3KmZfg8rVljuOn" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li><b><span style="font-size: large;">For Monday, Davidson, ch. 7. Next assignment will involve explaining the fate of a bill.</span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Start thinking about which two committees you want to simulate.</span></b></li></ul><p></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;">Mark Meadows anecdote -- <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281">why is Meadows still in the news</a>?</b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What is leadership? What is power?</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Transactional v. transformative</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Sources of power</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Knowledge of policy and procedure</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Understanding of what followers want</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Money</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Reputation: fear and respect</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Influence on public opinion</span></li></ul></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/177566/kevin-mccarthy-pathetic-republican-leader-year">So why did Kevin McCarthy fail? Michael Tomasky:</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Tiempos Text", serif; letter-spacing: -0.09px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">McCarthy’s pulverizing failure as a legislative leader stems from two truths: One, <a href="http://www.epicjourney2008.com/2022/12/ettd-house-editiion.html">he cared little about policy</a>; two, his <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/kevin-mccarthy-trump-audio-january-6/629645/">word was no good</a>. He’d say anything to anyone. If you’ve read enough political biographies, you know that “he was always as good as his word” is a common form of high praise that can be delivered across partisan lines. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/matt-gaetz-says-kevin-mccarthy-lied-biden-about-budget-deal-2023-10">McCarthy was as useless and malleable as his word</a>.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/03/01/party-unity-vote-studies-underscore-polarized-state-of-the-union/"><span style="font-size: large;">Narrow majorities require high levels of unity.</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5havJYIBD00?si=JuwzqyW8NAhtinnW">LBJ AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP</a><br /></span><p><b style="font-size: x-large;">The Johnson Network</b></p><div><div><ul><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aYpwBppuya0C&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=lbj+%22the+johnson+network%22&source=bl&ots=kLH2mfl8Jz&sig=ACfU3U1ChD6M2epqy-sMVu_ap-NL3ehL9Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS_fXplN7nAhXWi54KHZXVAPUQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=lbj%20%22the%20johnson%20network%22&f=false"><span style="font-size: large;">The Favor Bank</span></a></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Johnson Intelligence System</b><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVj1sF0Hw3w">One week after becoming president, LBJ mentions his long relationship with J. Edgar Hoover (ab at 19:00)</a>.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Johnson Procedure</b><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/rules-procedures/first-unanimous-consent-agreement.htm">Unanimous consent agreement -- functional equivalent of a House rule</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>The Johnson Treatment</b><br /></span><ul><li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wBE-34_KfcAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=johnson+senate+chamber+just+right+caro&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCws_Wjt7nAhV9IDQIHXNuDKUQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=137&f=false"><span style="font-size: large;">Caro on LBJ, the House, and the Senate</span></a></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://willrabbe.com/microblog/2014/2/17/lbj-sightings-in-frank-underwoods-office.html">LBJ in Frank Underwood's office</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><img alt="Image result for johnson treatment fortas" height="400" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9f/c0/d5/9fc0d523dc3f2d6b8608de59d25bcc15.jpg" width="268" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt5GkOm_9SCMieREgnpijVF0vg0DfkyF93J9ervKk2fAvuHtDmYXQkVh0xi4pPLbPfQ7ndiV-id9NXgH4vGoEzuqflgX-QVwmNoTIx0WENBpv1SxKIw0f327p_Lae6Fr48CGrwpLK4ZwZ7/s960/lbj.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt5GkOm_9SCMieREgnpijVF0vg0DfkyF93J9ervKk2fAvuHtDmYXQkVh0xi4pPLbPfQ7ndiV-id9NXgH4vGoEzuqflgX-QVwmNoTIx0WENBpv1SxKIw0f327p_Lae6Fr48CGrwpLK4ZwZ7/w300-h400/lbj.jpg" width="300" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Image result for johnson theodore green" height="251" src="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7uHXFwUwAAwqjg.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rYzWJgI17rKRnNTxJnfvu1R-_YMh7nTTURndC3z7Ei_dbI8OI0j72junecEX40yChSwmL1CyjL4-tLmZK72vq0kcWYVcrwMLH-denkov6z3pSVHZNPW-8Mn8iPOxSvGKa6ybUJ3HiiNo/s1600/lbj-frank.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rYzWJgI17rKRnNTxJnfvu1R-_YMh7nTTURndC3z7Ei_dbI8OI0j72junecEX40yChSwmL1CyjL4-tLmZK72vq0kcWYVcrwMLH-denkov6z3pSVHZNPW-8Mn8iPOxSvGKa6ybUJ3HiiNo/s1600/lbj-frank.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZkRpH46qiiyiglyBn84fpMoagcTR_KXFVn3bBg7tqNXCiGHssizqmQh39tkBawxOXamBax2aVmdJSdfgIvh39QVa-3-HLAvpSOWVRtqOgwun7jdaZHn-FRGccMrnkOHIFKZZ_iI4vvTe/s1600/Johnson_Treatment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZkRpH46qiiyiglyBn84fpMoagcTR_KXFVn3bBg7tqNXCiGHssizqmQh39tkBawxOXamBax2aVmdJSdfgIvh39QVa-3-HLAvpSOWVRtqOgwun7jdaZHn-FRGccMrnkOHIFKZZ_iI4vvTe/s1600/Johnson_Treatment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZkRpH46qiiyiglyBn84fpMoagcTR_KXFVn3bBg7tqNXCiGHssizqmQh39tkBawxOXamBax2aVmdJSdfgIvh39QVa-3-HLAvpSOWVRtqOgwun7jdaZHn-FRGccMrnkOHIFKZZ_iI4vvTe/s1600/Johnson_Treatment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZkRpH46qiiyiglyBn84fpMoagcTR_KXFVn3bBg7tqNXCiGHssizqmQh39tkBawxOXamBax2aVmdJSdfgIvh39QVa-3-HLAvpSOWVRtqOgwun7jdaZHn-FRGccMrnkOHIFKZZ_iI4vvTe/s1600/Johnson_Treatment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZkRpH46qiiyiglyBn84fpMoagcTR_KXFVn3bBg7tqNXCiGHssizqmQh39tkBawxOXamBax2aVmdJSdfgIvh39QVa-3-HLAvpSOWVRtqOgwun7jdaZHn-FRGccMrnkOHIFKZZ_iI4vvTe/s1600/Johnson_Treatment.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The inside game and the outside game: in LBJ's time in the Senate, the outside game scarcely counted. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Gingrich and C-SPAN start to change things. </span></div><ul><li><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4611416/tip-oneil-words" style="font-size: x-large;">Newt v. O'Neill 1984 (start clip at 9:30)</a></li></ul><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/12/11/rush-limbaugh-saluted-as-a-majority-maker/e4f879c5-a0d2-43b8-ae56-9e24eeb82b62/?utm_term=.9c0d89c7aeb6">During the early 1990s -- just before the Web dominated political communication -- Rush Limbaugh was central to the GOP outside game</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">How did Boehner lead the fight against the House Bank? (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1rm0kuVjOs">He had help</a>.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">How did Bachmann turn the tables?</span></li></ul></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2021">Women in Congress</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2021"><br /></a><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/03/118th-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women/">Pew data</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/magazine/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats.html">Pelosi as a leader</a>:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><blockquote style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Years later, John Spratt, a South Carolina congressman who voted against her at the time, sheepishly told me, “I couldn’t quite see her as whip, because you need to be kind of tough to be whip, and I estimated her differently. I just didn’t put two and two together.”</li><li>Pelosi’s reign was successful because she understood the will of her caucus rather than bending it to hers.</li><li>Boehner's anecdote: how did she depose Dingell as chair of Energy and Commerce? </li></ul></blockquote></span></div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-71268769519238303982024-02-05T09:00:00.000-08:002024-02-05T10:52:53.012-08:00Parties and Leadership I<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/609602/voters-biden-house-don-deserve-term.aspx">Americans hate Congress but like their own Members</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For Wednesday, we shall discuss the <i>history</i> of parties and leadership. Read the Boehner excerpt on Sakai. (Note the dialog box on p. 37)</span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hill leadership</span></b></p><ul style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.house.gov/leadership/" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">House</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/a_three_sections_with_teasers/leadership.htm" style="color: #c5224d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senate</span></a></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">Leadership Activities</span></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Legislation</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoteHHf8zE8">Whips</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpKijfiunbU">for real</a> (Scalise is now majority leader)</span></li></ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Communication: <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1754333708193091928?s=20">Johnson</a> v. <a href="https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1754290664685085040?s=20">Schumer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/majority-cmte-pac/C00428052/summary/2022">Campaign Activity</a></span></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/24/3/3.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Edmund Burke:</a><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;"> In all bodies, those who will lead, must also, in a considerable degree, follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition, of those whom they wish to conduct: therefore, if an assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme degree of virtue as very rarely appears in the world, and for that reason cannot enter into calculation, will prevent the men of talent disseminated through it from becoming only the expert instruments of absurd projects!</span></blockquote><p><a href="https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Speakers-Multiple-Ballots/"><span style="font-size: large;">Speakership elections </span></a></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/plxwjzrnNPg?si=e91OztSfctVIOOTy" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mccarthy-paid-a-steep-price-for-his-speakership-now-what/">McCarthy concessions</a> (Davidson 19th ed., 135-138).<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">More on Wednesday about McCarthy's skill set.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">After compromising with Democrats, McCarthy fell to MTV change that he had accepted.</span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3htKb_2EuM?si=AyO4iGljbb5MHHis" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And then came Mike Johnson</span></p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p></p><p></p><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AQrak8F69zM?si=mzaGBkZXvsCj1IYH" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /></span><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is party <i>unity</i> the same as party <i>disciplin</i>e<i>? </i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/14/house-gop-elects-elise-stefanik-as-conference-chair-after-ousting-liz-cheney.html" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">The Cheney vote</a></span></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cha.house.gov/congressional-member-and-staff-organizations" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Member Organizations</a></span><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://cbc.house.gov/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.cbcfinc.org/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Links to Off-Hill organizations; the CBC Foundation</span></a></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Informal Groups</span></b></div><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/23/freedom-caucus-likely-to-play-a-bigger-role-in-new-gop-led-house-so-who-are-they/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">House Freedom Caucus</span></a></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/09/27/ayanna-pressley-the-squad-rallies-supporters-in-somerville/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Squad</span></a></li></ul></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Note: even majorities of the president's party may split with the administration agenda. See Democrats on trade in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/trade/stories/tr111893.htm" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">1993</a> and<a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/harry-reid-opposes-obama-on-trade-authority/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"> 2014</a>.</span></b></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /></span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-64841767110043822162024-01-31T09:53:00.000-08:002024-01-31T13:04:13.208-08:00Hill Style, Home Style, US Style<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span>For Monday, read Davidson, ch. 6.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">Campaign Finance</span></p><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Hard money" contribution limits</span></a></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Outside spending</span></a></li></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/fes_summ.php">Outside spending</a> examples:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Leadership_Fund">Senate Leadership Fund</a></span></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Majority_PAC"><span style="font-size: large;">Senate Majority PAC </span></a></li></ul></span><div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A local emergency and a national story:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cTBvwZxg404?si=DJT_O6awK84fHd-L" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In their home style (Davidson, 123 of 19th ed. 130 of 18th), members try to convey<br /></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Qualification</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Identification</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Empathy</span></li></ul><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><b><i><u>Every single member</u></i></b> has both a Hill style and a home style.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://chu.house.gov/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take our own House member, Rep. Judy Chu</span></a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">John McCain in 1993 showed that a fierce maverick can become very deferential when facing little old ladies:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="330" src="https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4392956/sen-mccain-interacts-constituency" width="512"></iframe> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AOC-DC questions Michael Cohen:</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gRHrifV7oB0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" width="560"></iframe><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US3614-congressional-district-14-ny/" style="background-color: white; color: #224dc5; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Consider the characteristics of NY 14</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"> as AOC goes local:</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7zRfRMO1Okw" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">AOC District Office</span></div><div><br /></div><div>d<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCf14wQ6sDQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">During non-pandemic times, different kinds of encounters take place at town halls:</span></div><div> </div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Town halls can sometimes get testy.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbWWHnqz8V8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">US Style and National Nancy Mace</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-nsp6WHJ2eg?si=c7oyC5brZmdeaUjU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">AOC TODAY: </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Wow AOC doesn’t hold back here <a href="https://t.co/GxHNtaKkaJ">pic.twitter.com/GxHNtaKkaJ</a></p>— Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1621187681974685697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2023</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greenes-controversies-fueled-huge-fundraising-haul/OA3Q6RIPRNDEPFUO6CZO6QVV7Q/"><span style="font-size: large;">Out of state fundraising</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Alex Jones that masks and vaccines don't work and that any doctor who doesn't use Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 is "guilty of murder." <a href="https://t.co/mqV5NU9BkP">pic.twitter.com/mqV5NU9BkP</a></p>— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1488953363760918529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-80101326088996356052024-01-28T13:58:00.000-08:002024-01-29T10:44:17.754-08:00Elections 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cmc.edu/washington-program">Presentation today on the CMC Washington Program </a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-td3yaH_rk" style="font-size: x-large;">Ads</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For Wednesday, Davidson ch. 5</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Remember for the assignment: D</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">o not rely only on member websites: search for </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">interviews</i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RRGNmkzf7g0?si=1F4-zcyRtATVCMXq" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Almanac of American Politics 2022</i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> does not have the latest data on House districts. The lines may have changed and members might now represent </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">districts with different numbers.</i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page">Ballotpedia</a> is a good source for election data.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races">OpenSecrets </a>is a good source for campaign finance data.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">----------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Home style v. Hill style: members claiming credit for funding from programs they voted against. <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-need-to-ask-my-staff-house-republican-claims-she-doesnt-remember-voting-for-major-bills-when-confronted-live-on-air/"> Course alum Alex Griffing `08 reports</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-----------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Competition</span></p><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #224dc5; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Incumbents Usually Win </a>-- <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2022#Incumbents_defeated">House</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/senate-incumbents-analysis/index.html">Senate</a></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2022:_Congressional_margin_of_victory_analysis"><span style="color: #224dc5;">House and Senate margins</span> </a></span></li><div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Control</span></p><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #224dc5; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Midterms Are Bad for the President's Party</a></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since 1994: control is in play, majorities are usually narrow</span>.</li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022">In 2022, GOP won the aggregate popular vote for the House.</a></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses#/media/File:Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png">The historical pattern</a></span>:</li><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tUdTOncw6tg6QkdB9zL6NpzwEWJSio8YYYUv4td29blrOs64cGFk4WaKK8UvFX0dRsrMjywrpD6MK8O123fr8xfDamPvLKO_KLj_ynx4aUjKRyK638Px7xd5Eu-Am1RwXX6r-XKdBP5p5ZS45LjP5gD0mMAPYviDGNFbjVSGwchgjrdyzXmIaoue1w/s1469/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1469" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tUdTOncw6tg6QkdB9zL6NpzwEWJSio8YYYUv4td29blrOs64cGFk4WaKK8UvFX0dRsrMjywrpD6MK8O123fr8xfDamPvLKO_KLj_ynx4aUjKRyK638Px7xd5Eu-Am1RwXX6r-XKdBP5p5ZS45LjP5gD0mMAPYviDGNFbjVSGwchgjrdyzXmIaoue1w/w640-h308/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate%20(2).png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span>The House</span></span></span></span><p></p><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/cook-pvi/2023-partisan-voting-index/118-district-map-and-list"><span>Overview</span></a> <span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/27/us/politics/congressional-gerrymandering-redistricting-game-2022.html">-- the game</a></span></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/01/gerrymandering-is-even-more-infuriating-when-you-can-actually-see-it/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Gerrymandering: </a>cracking, packing, merging, isolating</span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2023/05/09/exploring-the-four-quadrants-of-american-politics/">Race and education: the four quadrants</a></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><u style="color: #0000ee;"><a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-new-crossover-members-of-the-house/"><span style="font-size: large;">Crossover districts</span></a></u></li><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Senate</span></p><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate classes</a> (last year was a "class 3" election)</span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2020/11/29/117th-congress-will-have-fewest-split-us-senate-delegations-in-history/"><span>The vanishing of split delegations</span></a>. The 118th has just five:</span></li><ol><li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maine: Collins (R) and King (I)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Montana: Tester (D) and Daines (R)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Ohio: Brown (D) and Vance (R)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">WV: Manchin (D) and Capito (R)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Wisconsin: Johnson (R) and Baldwin (D)</span></li></ol></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">Campaign Finance</span></p><div><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/">"Hard money" contribution limits</a></span></li><li style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/" style="color: #224dc5; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Outside spending</span></a></li></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-92098574736391894342024-01-26T08:10:00.000-08:002024-01-26T08:10:27.915-08:00"Dead on Arrival"<p>Here's an e-Dear Colleague written by Speaker Johnson where he says that the potential Senate border compromise bill would be "dead on arrival" in the House.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnWE9YujGzv5IFZaT0mDvzszw845Z487zdN4Li-M4JtVNblRRD0KAbNCis8hd9ADw6ufYL8Fu7Iq1vzAWwEa-kPkH-j6gbiT_e8LoitNOlKiXn41ts4GRfIwi1yhGR61VKwmLuQt2XvnqyQNRs5bPmJ1hIedJWV7ytamrneu8XWv1PqszYEyo-DRnf8in/s3573/johnson-leter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3573" data-original-width="2083" height="693" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnWE9YujGzv5IFZaT0mDvzszw845Z487zdN4Li-M4JtVNblRRD0KAbNCis8hd9ADw6ufYL8Fu7Iq1vzAWwEa-kPkH-j6gbiT_e8LoitNOlKiXn41ts4GRfIwi1yhGR61VKwmLuQt2XvnqyQNRs5bPmJ1hIedJWV7ytamrneu8XWv1PqszYEyo-DRnf8in/w405-h693/johnson-leter.jpg" width="405" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Michael Gadinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526309410213201966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-83206178044938444212024-01-23T15:25:00.000-08:002024-01-23T15:26:59.218-08:00Of History and Violence<p><span style="font-size: large;">For next Monday, Davidson, ch. 3 and 4.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">"All of American history comes from the Civil War. It is the most important event in our history. Everything before it led up to it, everything since, everything, is a consequence of it." -- <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/09/09/ken-burns-on-the-civil-war-world-war-ii-vietnam-and-the-american-idea/?utm_term=.8cad9db7338b">Ken Burns</a></span></b></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />From Article I, section 2</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.</i><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4bVBs5OOkFEC&pg=PA97&dq=Unconstrained+by+any+explicit+intrastate+equality&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkzbWZi7_PAhVX2mMKHRjEBQsQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=Unconstrained%20by%20any%20explicit%20intrastate%20equality&f=false" style="background-color: white; color: #949494; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;">Akhil Amar on the Three-Fifths Clause:</a><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;">The radical vice of Article I as drafted and ratified was that it gave slaveholding regions extra clout in every election as far as the eye could see - a political gift that kept giving. And growing. Unconstrained by any explicit intrastate equality norm in Article I, and emboldened by the federal [3/5] ratio, many slave states in the antebellum era skewed their congressional-district maps in favor of slaveholding regions within the state. Thus the House not only leaned south, but also within coastal slave states bent east, toward tidewater plantations that grabbed more than their fair share of seats. ... The very foundation of the Constitution’s first branch was tilted and rotten.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;">And not just the first branch. The Article II electoral college sat atop the Article I base: The electors who picked the president would be apportioned according to the number of seats a state had in the House and Senate. In turn, presidents would nominate cabinet heads, Supreme Court justices, and other Article III judges.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;">Consequences of the Three-Fifths Clause. From William Lee Miller, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9LGwBjJ7OT4C&q=arguing+about+slavery&dq=arguing+about+slavery&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ipdEUvjPG8rKigLwhoGACA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA" style="color: #949494;">Arguing About Slavery</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif;">:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></div><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Five of the first seven presidents were slaveholders [Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson], for thirty-two of the nation’s first thirty-six years forty of its first forty-eight, fifty of its first sixty four, the nation’s president was a slaveholder. The powerful office of Speaker of the House was held by a slaveholder for twenty-eight of the nation’s first thirty-five years. The president pro tem of the Senate was virtually always a slaveholder. The majority of the cabinet members and — very important — of justices of the Supreme Court were slaveholders. The slaveholding Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by slaveholding President Andrew Jackson to succeed the slaveholding John Marshall, would serve all the way through the decades before the war into the years of the Civil War itself; it would be a radical change of the kind slaveholders feared when in 1863, President Lincoln would appoint the anti-slavery politician Salmon P. Chase of Ohio to succeed Taney</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">.</span></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"></span><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-406359576815106632" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 680px;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.thirty-thousand.org/">The size of Congress</a> (Davidson 28-29) </span></p></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_per_representative.svg#/media/File:US_population_per_representative.svg"><img alt="US population per representative.svg" height="375" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/US_population_per_representative.svg/1200px-US_population_per_representative.svg.png" width="640" /></a><br />, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99798675">Link</a></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221208032247/http://newsletter.mattglassman.com/issues/matt-s-five-points-october-19-2018-constitutional-hardball-140243">Statehood -- Matt Glassman reflects:</a></span></div><div><div class="revue-p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;"></div><blockquote><div class="revue-p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The relevant constitutional provision is <a href="https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A4Sec3.html?utm_campaign=Matt%27s%20Five%20Points&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: content-box; color: #3498db;" target="_blank">Article 4, section 3</a>:</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><blockquote>New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress</blockquote></span><div class="revue-p" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">That’s right. All it takes to create a new state is the passage of a federal law. <strong style="box-sizing: content-box;">Right now, assuming they were willing to use the nuclear option to abolish the filibuster for state admissions, any unified government could make Puerto Rico or DC a state, or (with the consent of the state leg) divide Texas (or Wyoming) into any number of states.</strong> WIth just a law. Irreversibly. And the constitution puts no population or land size constraints on the process either.</span></div></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><blockquote>These three features of the statehood process—irreversibility, a low threshold for creation, and no population/size constraints on the creation of a state—made the statehood process incredibly destabilzing in the 19th century. Any majority, at any time, could rearrange the balance of power in the legislature and the electoral college. And it unambiguously exacerbated the slave crisis: so many of the major flashpoints over slavery between 1820 and 1860 involved the flawed statehood process: the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Lecompton Constitution fight, even the Dred Scott decision.</blockquote><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1953331">"Institutionalization"</a> (Davidson, pp. 26-27)</p><p></p><ul><li>"Well-bounded": Membership and leadership in the House has been increasingly walled-off. Incumbents tend to serve longer and leadership positions go to the most senior incumbents </li><li>"Internally complex": House functions have been regularized and specialized: committees, leadership, staff.</li><li>Universalistic: The House now follows impersonal, universal decision criteria rather than particularistic criteria. "Precedents and rules are followed; merit systems replace favoritism and nepotism" (p 145) When the House makes a judgment about a contested election, the decision rests on the case's merits, not on partisan lines.</li></ul><div>Rules</div><div><br /></div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y_0DRy1NSl0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41545.pdf">Congressional tenure has increased</a>, </div><p></p></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitm6dHf0QqpJolAAqLQyXuTZKkXJXuexsQb8EvrcZ7X3nsPvzNNqH6B70TKMy8skXpLijfTw1h2mKbIKIyF6fllc3MsJb2e1ryQZME3JKjmnFnKpM6dOrUFpsNlOzAhiknHILh49lJVC19e4h8RjvhM_yKCxgZK8d0VBNsZ4q3qXaS0HOI-RZEFb5Rwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1229" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitm6dHf0QqpJolAAqLQyXuTZKkXJXuexsQb8EvrcZ7X3nsPvzNNqH6B70TKMy8skXpLijfTw1h2mKbIKIyF6fllc3MsJb2e1ryQZME3JKjmnFnKpM6dOrUFpsNlOzAhiknHILh49lJVC19e4h8RjvhM_yKCxgZK8d0VBNsZ4q3qXaS0HOI-RZEFb5Rwg=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374154776" style="background-color: white; color: #224dc5; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>The</i> book on violence in the antebellum Congress</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">:</span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><img height="320" src="https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/macmillan_us_frontbookcovers_1000H/9780374154776.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; font-size: 13.2px; padding: 5px;" width="212" /></span><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The title comes from this line, which provides the book's epigraph: In a letter to Senator Charles Sumner (MA) Rev. John Turner Sargent wrote that "blood would flow—somebody’s blood, either yours or Wilson’s, or Hale’s, or Giddings’— before the expiration of your present session on that field of blood, the floor of Congress.” </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">Sargent was alluding to the burial place of Judas: "And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day" (Matthew 27:6-8 KJV).</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">It was literally an atmosphere conducive to violence:</div></span></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">All this in a room that was hot, stuffy, and smelly. At the end of a typical day, with the galleries full and hours of body heat trapped in the chamber, [Benjamin Brown] French thought that reading aloud to members was like reading “with his head stuck into an oven.” ... Ongoing whimpering from the floor produced another study, this one demonstrating that it was thirty degrees warmer inside than outside and that the chamber smelled of sewage from the basement. Visiting the new chamber not long after it opened, French wasn’t impressed. The idea of “shutting up a thousand or two people in a kind of cellar, where none of God’s direct light or air can come in to them . . . does not jump with my notions of living,” he groused. Thirty years later, members still declared the House “the worst ventilated building on the continent."</span></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">Professor Freeman explains how hard it was to research the violence (Start at around 9:30)<span style="font-size: 13.2px;">:</span></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fgUXKvE5cl8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1856, Senator Sumner delivered his famous "Crime Against Kansas" speech. He attacked the absent Andrew Butler (SC), saying he had " a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean," the harlot, Slavery."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two days later, Butler's cousin, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina, responded:</span></div><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><img alt="File:Southern Chivalry.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" height="422" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Southern_Chivalry.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="640" /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Drunk History version:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r-AU5zgyUYQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: large;">You can see the cane in a Boston museum:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4872570/user-clip-lincoln-douglas-ottawa" style="color: #224dc5; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="File:Walking cane used to assault Senator Charles Summner, May ..." height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Walking_cane_used_to_assault_Senator_Charles_Summner%2C_May_1856_-_Old_State_House_Museum%2C_Boston%2C_MA_-_IMG_6685.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(106, 142, 222); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="300" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fast Forward to 2020-21</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/GPO/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection">From the J6 report</a>:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDcYdNhLcIVDtFT_mSIT-euQStcjbnMF3P7vBDRVkBeHkbCORXXI7B_MhLA1YJIimwnZrKKjPCumawNxK3I3nO8pAqS5xAUsBWv0RCgN0fA39luxzbXDmuaNp-gA1CQd6cjLSTjMqQYnhqWJ8lOAr82U5OZIWH328hfYiijGF0vc742HRpEtgmIu3SQ/s750/C1image6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDcYdNhLcIVDtFT_mSIT-euQStcjbnMF3P7vBDRVkBeHkbCORXXI7B_MhLA1YJIimwnZrKKjPCumawNxK3I3nO8pAqS5xAUsBWv0RCgN0fA39luxzbXDmuaNp-gA1CQd6cjLSTjMqQYnhqWJ8lOAr82U5OZIWH328hfYiijGF0vc742HRpEtgmIu3SQ/w640-h426/C1image6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUWiSREj0E">Then he pressures the Georgia secretary of state to change the count</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/81939/timeline-false-alternate-slate-of-electors-scheme-donald-trump-and-his-close-associates/">Team Trump organizes fake electors</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/html-submitted/index.html">Trump pressures the Justice Department:</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The President pushed the claim that Pennsylvania had reported 205,000 more votes than there were voters in the state.“We’ll look at whether we have more ballots in Pennsylvania than registered voters,” Acting Attorney General Rosen replied, according to [acting deputy attorney general Richard] Donoghue. They “[s]hould be able to check that out quickly.” But Rosen wanted President Trump to “understand that the DOJ can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. It doesn’t work that way.” </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I don’t expect you to do that,” President Trump responded. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Donoghue explained this “is an exact quote from the President.” </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066248-eastman-memo" style="font-size: x-large;">From the Eastman Memo</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">VP Pence ... begins to open and count the ballots </span></li><li style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">When he gets to Arizona, he announces that he has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">At the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of “electors appointed” – the language of the 12th Amendment -- is 454. ... A “majority of the electors appointed” would therefore be 228. </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Howls, of course, from the Democrats, who now claim, contrary to Tribe’s prior position, that 270 is required. So Pence says, fine. Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, no candidate has achieved the necessary majority. That sends the matter to the House, where the “the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote . . . .” </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Republicans currently control 26 of the state delegations, the bare majority needed to win that vote. President Trump is re-elected there as well.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></li></ol></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pence declined to go along.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rally:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mh3cbd7niTQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The violence:</span></div></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXnHIJkZZAs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/06/16/pence-rioters-capitol-location-2022-january-6-hearings-vpx.cnn"><span style="font-size: large;">They came damn close to Pence</span></a></div><div><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br style="text-align: left;" /></div></div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-10150211918872522122024-01-23T10:11:00.000-08:002024-01-23T10:11:33.965-08:00Really good politico article on upcoming Senate races<p> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/20/senate-gop-landscape-00136336">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/20/senate-gop-landscape-00136336</a></p>Michael Gadinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526309410213201966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-56878824382358907382024-01-23T10:03:00.000-08:002024-01-23T10:03:50.830-08:00The Hill: Hispanic Caucus Snub Raises Questions About Border-Ukraine Deal<p> <a href="https://thehill.com/latino/4421542-hispanic-caucus-senate-border-ukraine-deal-immigration-israel/">https://thehill.com/latino/4421542-hispanic-caucus-senate-border-ukraine-deal-immigration-israel/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey everyone - I just read this article about the Senate Border-Ukraine (and Israel and Taiwan) deal (which was mentioned in class yesterday). The article mainly focuses on how there is no CHC representation in these negotiations and the implications of this omission. It also talks about how the deal is likely to face opposition in the House from CHC members as well as hard-line Republicans who will not vote for funding Ukraine (if Speaker Johnson even brings it to the floor). The article did not explicitly mention the lack of representation from border states in the negotiations, with the talks being led by Sen. Murphy (D-CT) and Sen. Lankford (R-OK). The only Senator mentioned as involved in the talks who is from a border state is Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). I think this connects well to our discussion of how there are "two Congresses," with a deal with national implications being driven by Senators whose constituencies are not those most directly affected (I hope I used the right word here, don't want to make a dumb-you-know-what mistake)!</p>Michael Gadinishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526309410213201966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-90290656047392811822024-01-22T10:01:00.000-08:002024-01-22T10:44:39.021-08:00Two Congresses<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b> For Wednesday:</b></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Freeman reading on Sakai</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/s-embarrassing-republicans-worry-no-achievements-run-2024-rcna131902">Ineffectiveness -- a CMC alum weighs in</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">A view from </span><a href="https://puck.news/mike-johnsons-lonely-hearts-club-band/"><span style="font-size: large;">Tina Nguyen</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Some basics:</span></div><ul><li><a href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional pay and benefits</span></a></li><li><a href="http://congress.org/advocacy-101/congressional-staff-titles/"><span style="font-size: large;">Congressional staff titles</span></a></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/20/congress-is-bumping-up-its-top-staffers-salaries-its-real-problem-is-how-it-underpays-junior-staff/">Congressional staff salaries</a> (<a href="https://www.legistorm.com/salaries.html">find individuals here</a>)</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvjVdRa4Re6vE5kXGaw9P42OrMW3G97LxzR5nfAOy7sTh6jY0ZQYesbqBlsqdyztq8dNhxYfSvhdD6XzsI0YU_m09tWboLCNSkYcR4pb8rgO6B7q8CLemr1_tpHxyBLeHTaOyPSy6KDXxWlsarhIe-qDDqXGY02mAqGI3p90CRPwRw0ye-2zslCyZc6w=s916" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="916" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvjVdRa4Re6vE5kXGaw9P42OrMW3G97LxzR5nfAOy7sTh6jY0ZQYesbqBlsqdyztq8dNhxYfSvhdD6XzsI0YU_m09tWboLCNSkYcR4pb8rgO6B7q8CLemr1_tpHxyBLeHTaOyPSy6KDXxWlsarhIe-qDDqXGY02mAqGI3p90CRPwRw0ye-2zslCyZc6w=w640-h396" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="font-size: large;">Two Congresses</span></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://constitution.findlaw.com/article1.html">Article I of the Constitution</a> and lawmaking</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.html">Burke's speech to the electors of Bristol</a> (Davidson, pp. 6-7)</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Delegate v. Trustee</span></li></ul></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Demographics:</span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Descriptive representation</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47470">Overview</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/07/the-changing-face-of-congress/">Graphics</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/18905/us-congress-by-race-ethnicity/"><span style="font-size: large;">Partisan demographic divide</span></a></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Home style</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-size: large;">"What you have to understand about my people is that they are a noble people. Humility is their form of pride. It is their strength; it is their weakness. And if you can humble yourself before them they will do anything you ask." -- <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2248444/quotes">Frank Underwood</a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In Home Style, members try to convey</span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Qualification</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Identification</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Empathy</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">USA Style: Nancy Mace explains her vote against Kevin McCarthy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gIE0Me5foMc?si=Btt_Q89AEAKOMLRZ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://online.maryville.edu/blog/difference-between-house-and-senate/">House-Senate differences</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">One major difference between the chambers is that few House members run for president, and seldom get far when they do. But a fairly large fraction of senators have gone for the White House:</span><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Bennet (D-CO), 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cory Booker (D-NJ) 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ted Cruz (R-TX) 2016</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lindsey Graham (R-SC) 2016</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Manchin (D?-WV), 2024?</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rand Paul (R-KY) 2016</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mitt Romney (R-UT), 2008, 2012</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marco Rubio (R-FL) 2016</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bernard Sanders (I-VT) 2016, 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tim Scott (R-SC) 2024</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), 2020</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif;">In the House, see</span><br /></span><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seth Moulton (D-MA), 2020</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dean Phillips (D-MN), 2024</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eric Swalwell (D-CA) 2020</span></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">Four Strategic Postures Since 2000 (House, by election year) </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Majority <span> </span>Minority</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In Party<span> </span><span> </span>Dems 08, 20</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <span> </span>GOP 06, 18</span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>GOP 00, 02, 04, 16 <span> </span>Dem 10,12,14,22<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">Out Party <span> </span>GOP 10,12,14,22 <span> </span>GOP 08, 20</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Dem 06, 18 <span> </span>Dem 00, 02, 04, 16</span></div></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-30793417143441230632024-01-22T09:14:00.000-08:002024-01-22T10:20:45.172-08:00First Assignment, Spring 2024<p> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Pick one:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Pick any current member of the House or Senate. Tell how this member has explained her or his position on one of the following: deficit reduction, the Israel-Hamas War, the Ukraine War, abortion, or immigration. With reference to Davidson, ch. 5, explain how this explanation reflects both the member's constituency and her or his place on Capitol Hill.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Pick a "toss-up" race for the House or Senate in 2024. <i>Why</i> is it a toss-up? In your answer, consider the constituency, the national political environment, and the candidates. See:</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings</span></a></li></ul></ul><p><span style="font-size: large;">Essays should reflect an understanding of class readings and discussions. See <i>The Almanac of American Politics 2022</i> (but check to see if district information has changed). Many resources, including <i>CQ Magazine</i> are at Library/Databases/CQ Library. Consult other sources as well. See, among others: </span></p><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/congress.html">http://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/congress.html</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/elect.htm">https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/elect.htm</a></u></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">Read Strunk & White and <a href="https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/writing.html">my stylesheet</a> (with links to model papers)</span>.<div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cmc-its.zoom.us/rec/share/99Mi5e8curXtqmX5bmfRSxvB-NKCHiVQyZT2l90fcc1wO6ckjilIAH8ei3PCP12B.xSUfl3SvnqB_xymp?startTime=1631586389000">Watch my writing lecture</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The specifications:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Essays should be typed (12-point), double-spaced, and no more than three pages long. I will not read past the third page. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u style="background-color: #fcff01;">Please submit all papers in this course as Word documents, not Google docs or pdfs</u></i></b>.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Cite your sources. Please use <b><i><u>endnotes</u></i></b> in the format of <i><a href="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html">Chicago Manual of Style</a>. </i>Endnotes do not count against the page limit.<i> </i>Please do not use footnotes, which take up too much page space.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Misrepresenting AI-generated content as your own work is plagiarism and will result in severe consequences</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Watch your spelling, grammar, diction, and punctuation. Errors will count against you. Return essays to the Sakai dropbox for this class by 11:59 PM, Friday, February 2. I reserve the right to dock papers one gradepoint for one day’s lateness, a full letter grade after that.</span></li></ul></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939458433346259643.post-13749022716913704822024-01-17T10:48:00.000-08:002024-01-17T10:48:50.116-08:00Beginning<p> <b> <span style="font-size: x-large;">For Monday, read Davidson ch. 1-2.</span></b></p><span style="font-size: large;"><div>Objectives of the course:</div><div><ul><li>Why the institution operates the way it does </li><li>What motivates members</li><ul><li>Reelection</li><li>Power: individual and party</li><li>Public policy</li><li>Attention and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPiIwFOQtU">disruption</a></li></ul><li>How the institution has changed in recent years</li><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/tEczkhfLwqM">Polarization</a></li><li>Nationalization of elections and internal congressional politics.</li></ul><li>How lawmakers, activists, and ordinary citizens accomplish their aims.</li><li>Dualities</li><ul><li>Two Congresses: Representative assembly and lawmaking body.</li><li>Two chambers: House and Senate are different.</li><li>Two parties: Republicans and Democrats differ ideologically, geographically, and demographically, though the lines have shifted over the years.</li><li>Two kinds of status: being in the majority is really different from being in the minority.</li><li>Two layers of lawmaking: high-profile and partisan, lower-profile and practical</li></ul><li>Recent developments</li><ul><li>Trump administration, impeachment, and insurrection</li><li>Change of House party control and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4-RuPaa70">the speakership</a></li></ul></ul></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHWtAuAnQU4">The Room Where It Happens</a></div><div><ul><li>Deliberation and compromise</li><li>Will the situation change?</li></ul></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0