Unit 2 Day 12Unit 2 Day 12How a bill becomes a law

Effects of the Shutdown• 1. Around 700,000 government employees would

be placed on mandatory unpaid leave. • 2. Military employees, including active duty

personnel, will not be paid during a shutdown unless Congress takes a separate action to insure that payments are issued.

• 3. America's famed national parks will likely be closed if the government shuts down.

• 4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would have substantially reduced capacity to investigate the outbreak of diseases.

• 5. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would be significantly cut back, and would not perform any audits during a shutdown.

• 6. Federal loans for homebuyers and small businesses would be suspended during a shutdown.

• 7. Benefits for pensioners and military veterans, while scheduled to be delivered as normal, could be subject to delays.

• 8. National museums and zoos would be closed during a shutdown.

• 9. Rubbish collection in the nation's capital will cease. Unlike in the fifty US states, Washington DC's budget is subject to Congressional approval.

• 10. Buying and selling guns would be made significantly more difficult, as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, which processes permit requests, would face significant cutbacks.

The Quizhttp://politicalquiz.net/ or

www.isidewith.com or www.politicalcompass.com

• Extra credit option.

• You must go on one of the websites and take the political quiz.

• Once completed you must write 2 paragraphs explaining whether you agree or disagree with the results.

• Please print off your results.

Conservative/ Progressive score: 12

You are a social progressive.

• …consider yourself a humanist first

• …religion and patriotism go too far in society

• …citizen of Earth first rather than a citizen of your country

Capitalist Purist/ Social Capitalist score: 7

You are a Moderate Capitalist.

• …support an economy that is by and large a free market, but has public programs to help people who can't help themselves or need a little help.

• …believe in the American economy how it currently is.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 4

You're a Moderate. • …we all have certain inalienable rights that must

be protected, but that sometimes laws need to be made to protect the majority's lives or quality of lives.

• …2nd amendment isn't necessary anymore because letting everyone own a gun is extremely dangerous to the community.

• …against illegal drug use or public pornography because of its possible harmful effects to society.

Pacifist/Militarist score: 4 You're a Moderate.

• …very rare occasions, the United States should invade a country in order to make the world better by spreading democracy or ending a tyrants rule.

• …defense is very important, and we shouldn't lower the defense budget.

• …the Iraq War probably was a mistake, that we can make the world a better place by sticking with it and spreading democracy in the middle east.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Democrat

Democrat/ Hardcore DemocratProgressive on social issues, support Economic equality.

Review of Congress’s Formal Requirements

Terms Age Citizenship Residency Number of members

House 2 years 7 years 435

Senate 30 Live in the

state

How a bill becomes a law?1. DRAFTED2. NUMBERED3. SENT TO A COMMITTEE4. COMMITTEE HEARING

TABLED5. SUB COMMITTEE OR FULL COMMITTEE MARK UP6. REPORTED OUT7. CALENDARED8. FLOOR READING, DEBATE, AMENDED9. VOTE10. ENGROSSED11. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE IF DIFFERENT VERSIONS

PASSED12. PRESIDENT

SIGN INTO LAW VETO (CONGRESS CAN PASS WITH 2/3)

13. LAW

What happens to the What happens to the bill in the committees? bill in the committees?

1. “do pass” and now the committee chair must steer the bill through debate on the floor—LIVES!

2. Refuse to report the bill (happens to most)—DIES!

3. Report the bill in amended form—SLIGHT CHANGES!

4. Report the bill with an unfavorable recommendation—WOUNDED!

5. Report a “committee” bill (entirely new bill)—MAJOR CHANGES!

What else can the Congress do to the bills?What else can the Congress do to the bills?

• Rider—unrelated material that is unlikely to pass on its own is added to the bill

• Discharge petition—Bill that has remained in committee for 30 days can be forced on to the floor for consideration

Section 4: The Bill in the Senate (pp. 342-346)

–Freedom of debate leads to the use of a “filibuster” (talking a bill to death; monopolize the time to get it dropped or changed)• Read books, recipes, talk about family,

etc. • Senator Strom Thurmond of South

Carolina once held the floor for 24 hours while trying to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957

Strom Thurmond (SC) 1947 and 2003. 48 years in the US Senate.

Cloture Rule (Rule XXII)• Cloture Rule (Rule XXII)—if 3/5 the Senate agrees from that point

forward there are 30 hours remaining for the debate (Need a lot of signatures)

– Senators do not use this a lot because they want to keep the tradition of rich debate and someday they may want to use a filibuster to their advantage

Filibuster!

Describe in 2-3 Describe in 2-3 sentencessentences

Every pair needs one sheet of paper…

FIRST…

•Every pair will be assigned a topic

•5 arguments in support of your topic

•5 arguments against your topic

•8 minutes

NEXT….

•We will be discussing your topics as a class.

•Our goal is to narrow the topics to the 3 we find the most interesting.

•8 minutes

Small groups (6 total)

• THEN…

• We will break into 6 groups and you will discuss the 3 topics we selected as a class.

• 8 minutes

• FINALLY…

• We will vote on the fate of each of the topics.

• 3 minutes