POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
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Congress" role: make laws for whole nation, represent local constituents, so they sometimes make decisions are not good for nation. Ex: the republican party shutting down the government over. Focus on own state, nation policy not as important. Solutions to problems: have rules to ensure collective decisions can be made. Committees to divide up the labor: not every member is an expert on all issues, so they divide it up, so know maybe one or two things, types: Ex: tax committee: jobs on committees. Writing laws on behalf of everyone else. Oversee the federal department of their interest. Ex: overseeing the department of education: then there are sub-committees of committees. Leaders set the rules for how laws are made: leader of majority party leads to the whole house. Leader gets to make decisions for entire house or. Speaker decides who in what committee and who leads it: house rules committee sets rules on pass each bill.
