All legislative Powers herein granted The Congress Oct 29th and Nov 31st Founders gave the presidency certain powers limitation Need to manage the crisis assure the people will represent all of the people Congress needs to act in local and national interest rural and urban areas Needs to be sensitive to people s needs what does the people want Public polls Members of Washington can also campaign in their own district go back home talk to constutions Tuesday Thursday club go back home on the long weekends People choose their representatives thus they have some influence on them Informing on them on what we want They fight for us in Washington Efficient and effective create good programs that burden people Hard for the majority and minority to agree need the senate and congress Effective is a goal but efficient is for the executive branch congress takes forever Each member of congress have goals and motivations that conflict with other members Three main goals write good public policy want to make things better altruistic reasons love power progressive ambition need to be reelect to write good laws reelection If we assume that the only goal was reelection then we will really understand what congressmen do what is the motivation to what extent and under what circumstances Some people this goal is good not all members of congress fear defeat at election time Most districts are safe for the representative at least 75 we know Every ten years there is census according to the constution representatives are equal to the population of the state each congressional district must have equal population State legislature including Georgia draws the lines Idea situation either democrat or republican draw your party majority Gerrymandering most of the districts are safe for one party or the other cant favor on party over the other and compact Incumbency people vote for the popular one Recognize so challenger have to campaign Money have to come from the interest groups prefer the incumbents because they are gonna win and they have a vote in congress Have all these advantages Constitute services casework help individuals with problems with the federal government representatives actually help Have a franklin privilege they don t have to pay for postage when they send mail to individuals Creditate anything good is from congress legislation They work the news media Members of congress start raising money as soon as they elected while the newbies are still trying to figure out if they will run or not Why pit the effort So they get the weaker challenger tend to loose Senate you re don t have to worry about reelection Representative ideal types two extremes Trustee and delegate Trustee chose me why Think am capable and confident I will use these components to make descions am going to make it from what I think its right Let them choose someone else When the member feel strongly about the issue but the people don t know or care Delegate to act as their spokesperson in congress what do the people back home want Regardless of my own opinion Member don t have a strong opinion people back at home care about the issue Tell me how to vote Delegatr and trustee easiest one Members feel strongly but the people care and disagreeJohn f Kennedy presidency 1950s voters against civil righters Senator graham voted in favor putting his reelection in danger Vast majority of issues are not salient 99 Agricultural subsidies members don t care or people don t care look at their field of forces cue taking model Consult with your party takes a position on every issue each has a leadership structure speaker of the house majority leader minority leader whips keep tac how often you support or oppose the party Rules committee and ways of means in the house representatives appropriations Go to their part leaders to be in the chair How many times did u vote for us Johnson tells Kennedy he wants his vote in the bill Blackmail Need to be in good graces in your party Consult with other members who have the expertise or another party other Georgia repress either party can say if the bill is good for Georgia Whats the president s position Politicians are hesitant to oppose the president of the United States White house keeps track too Who votes for who votes against us Every committee and member of congress have their own staff research investigate and give advice Any group that has an interest in legislation interest group Certain committees very powerful important to certain members leadership assigns to a committee then it will assign it a subcommittee draws up a lesilation gets through the conference commitee Stop from becoming a law the subcommittee hates it full hates it too house or senate hates it president vetoes it Differences in house and senate the house is more bigger senators tend to know their members each member in the house of represenatives is in one committee specialies in one small issue senate every member is on multiple generalities Bill passes sub full the rules committee what are the rules that the bill will be debated very limited Will they allow amendments or not if yes then it isn t in your control Enlarge or change it Have to vote the whole package In the senate however there is unlimited debate purpose of delaying or killing legislationfilibuster It takes 60 votes to stop the filibuster The similarities are important Strong therman 23hrs straight stop civil rights