Congressional Parties and Leadership I

 For Thursday: LaPira, ch. 14, 15.

Paper due by 11:59 pm PT on Friday.

• READ STRUNK AND WHITE FIRST.
• LOOK MY MY STYLESHEET
• WATCH MY WRITING LECTURE.
• Additional points:
• Superscripts follow punctuation.
• In US English, periods and commas go inside quotation marks.
• Do not jam multiple footnotes into the same point in your text (e.g. 1, 2, 3). If you need to cite multiple sources in one sentence, combine the citations into one footnote, and separate them with semicolons.
• Congressional Citation Guide (prefer CMOS)

Committees and the Simulation

Hill leadership

• House
• Senate

Edmund Burke:

 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!

• Is party unity the same as party discipline? 
  The Cheney vote
• Censures:  states and RNC

Speakership Elections

Member Organizations

• Congressional Black Caucus
• Links to Off-Hill organizations;  the CBC Foundation

Informal Groups

• House Freedom Caucus
• The Squad
• The Force
• Role of women (Staus ch. 13)

Note:  even majorities of the president's party may split with the administration agenda.  See Democrats on trade in 1993 and 2014.