Simulation Role 2025

 Read last year's sim handbook.  This year will be similar, with new dates and rules. [FIXED THE LINK!]

See last year's roles.  Of students still on campus, see if they want to be administration members or witnesses.

See video of past simulations: here, here, and here.

For simulation purposes this year, Democrats will be the majority.  Thune and Schumer will be on Foreign Relations.

Foreign Relations

Democrats

• Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Chair Harrison Steck
• Charles Schumer (NY), Maj. Leader Jasper Langley-Hawthorne
• Tim Kaine (VA)  Pallavi Raju
• Cory Booker (NJ) Ivan Dudiak
• Tammy Duckworth (IL) Ivory Sihashath   
• Jacky Rosen (NV) Ben Littlefield

Republicans

• James Risch (ID), Ranking Jenna Milbrodt
• John Thune (SD), Minority Leader Alex Maelor-Jones
• Bill Hagerty (TN) Kody Perry
• Rand Paul (KY) Charlie Hatcher
• Rick Scott (FL) Natalie Teare

Judiciary

Democrats

• Dick Durbin (IL), Chair Cary Dornier
• Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Ryan Gaghen
• Amy Klobuchar (MN) Stacey Leyva
• Mazie Hirono (HI) June Hsu
• Adam Schiff (CA) Shriya Velichala
• Alex Padilla (CA) Geeta Karlcut

Republicans

• Chuck Grassley (IS), Ranking Julia Mehlman
• Lindsey Graham (SC) Hannah Adams
• Ted Cruz (TX) Georgeanna Dempsey
• Mike Lee (UT) Kate Wurster
• Katie Britt (AL) Isabel Del Villar

Simulation and Political Deals

 Simulation roles

Conditions for Deliberative Negotiation (Lawrence, p. 14)

• Acceptable sources of information. 
• Repeated interactions 
• Penalty defaults (shutdown looms IRL)
• Privacy

Integrative Negotiation and linkage:  It takes a logjam to logroll.

Budget sequestration

Murray-Ryan:  A summary

Coda: They pretty much gave up on deficit control

Crisis and Scandal as a Prod to Action

Sanders and McCain find a deal

Bernie Sanders and John McCain

Policy Windows and  The Issue-Attention Cycle

"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.

Coda II:  Infrastructure and the important of policy windows

Public Lands Case Study

Most public lands are in the West:

 

Public Lands 2019

A couple of quotations about Congress and life in general:

• "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)
• "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).

The vehicle

(The military administers 8.8 million acres of land)

The writeup  -- summary of provisions (and an illustration of Archive.org)

THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS PRIMARILY A SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY.

The 2014 farm bill and the "dairy cliff" penalty default (Lawrence, p. 51)