POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cloture, Congressional Research Service, Pocket Veto
1 Jul 2016
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Congress" role: make laws for whole nation. Constitution gives house and senate mostly equal powers. Both must pass a bill before it becomes a law: represent local constituencies, congress and the public. Members focus in representing constituents to win re-election. Symbolic representation: present themselves that people in their district can look at them and see them as one of them. Allocative representation: congressional work to secure projects, services, and funds for the represented district and on their partisanship to make national laws, potential for roles to conflict. Cost and benefits equation: solution: organizational rules to ensure collective decisions can be made. How congress is organized: committees divide up the labor. Each committee has 3 jobs: write laws, hold investigations, oversee whatever national department. Example: house education of workforce committee. Made up of people who are experts in education and workforce policy. Hold investigations into educational issues (i. e. sexual assault on campus)
