This assignment has two parts: an initial postingand responds post, due Friday.
Initial Posting
By FRIDAY complete the following assignment:
Locate and read a newspaper article the past12monthsthat focuses on some aspect of theU.S. Congress (either the House of Representatives, the Senate, or both). This could be about the passage of a law, committee actions, congressional elections or campaigns,
Acceptable news sources:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Los Angeles Times
Associated Press wire articles in other newspapers
News websites: NPR, CNN, ABC News, CBS News
Fox & MSNBC: Be cautious…tendency toward bias
***Do NOT repeat an event that another student has alreadyused.***
Writea one-paragraph summaryof the article.This MUST be in your own words. Accurate summary AND excellent paraphrasing/summarizing skills will both count towards credit.
Choosethree concepts from the textbook We the People(12th edition) by Thomas Patterson, which is publishedby McGraw-Hillto explain and apply to this event.Define or explain the concept and show how it relates to the current event.Possible concepts are:
Committee, committee chair, subcommittee, Speaker of House, Senate majority leader,House minority leader, Senate minority leader, partyWhip, political party or parties, committee vote, floor vote, constituent/constituency, interest group, President, White House, incumbent, election, challenger
IncludeaMLA or APA formatted works cited (reference) entry at the end of the post, with a working hyperlink to your article.Click here for help on how to write MLA or APA citations:https://library.cscc.edu/mla8https://library.cscc.edu/apa
Create a thread on the Discussion Board, and name it with the headline (ok to shorten this) from the event you have chosen. Copy and paste your writing into the discussion board thread. Submit.
Response Post
In your reply, address the following questions:
What are two ways in which the event you posted about is SIMILAR to this post?
What are two ways in which YOUR event is DIFFERENT from this post?
Does this event make you feel more positively or negatively about Congress? Why?
Respond to this post
Angus King, the independent senior Senator from Maine, is leading a group of lawmakers who support a bill to modernize public health data systems through the investment of 100 million dollars every year for the next five budgetary years. The money invested would be given out in the form of grants to public health departments. This money would improve data collection, analysis infrastructures, and accurate patient information. Allowing for a more rapid sharing of information to help protect and defend against diseases and other ailments. The current bill has the support of a bipartisan coalition of Senators.
The first concept I chose was bill due to this piece of legislation not being a law, meaning that it still has to advance through the committee stages of the house and senate before it could be sent to the president to sign. The constituency of Senator King also plays a large if not the most significant part of a members decision making, and with healthcare officials making up the second largest employment sector in Maine, it would suit him to help make their jobs more comfortable and more efficient through the spending of money on their industry. The bill also shows a pork belly project for Senator King due to the large number of healthcare workers in his state and while he is not up for reelection until 2024 working to make a constituencies lives better now will benefit him in the long run.
Works Cited:
Patterson, Thomas. "We The People: An Introduction to American Government, 12th Edition."McGraw-Hill Education,2017.
Press, Associated. “Maine Senator Backs Push for Better Public Health Data.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 16 June 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/national/maine-senator-backs-push-for-better-public-health-data/2019/06/16/c36cc06e-906b-11e9-956a-88c291ab5c38_story.html?utm_term=.a17b275e63db.
“Maine.” Data USA, 2017, datausa.io/profile/geo/maine.
ONE PARAGRAPH FOR THE INTIAL POST AND ANOTHER SEPERATE PARAGRAPH FOR THE RESPONDS POST THANK YOU