POLS 1101 1st edition Lecture 21 Outline of Previous Lecture I Congress Party s II The benefits and disadvantages of committees in Congress Outline of Current Lecture I President Negotiating II How the President and the Key people communicate III How the other side negotiates IV How did he negotiate with the speaker V What is affecting the decision to be rushed Current Lecture Watched West Wing Season 5 Episode 8 I II III President Negotiating Still keeps his schedule because he doesn t want the press to make the government shut down a bigger deal He has people who are trying to negotiate between the president and the other side o He doesn t want to be in the war room so his people are trying to talk him up and the other side down So the president isn t in the negotiation talks but he does have the final say over agreeing with the other side The President s people are telling him that he shouldn t stick with what he thinks is right but what helps to stop the problem and come to a successful negotiation Not a lot of the people are following the President The President s people are trying to talk the minority leader to go with the President The President decides to walk to the Hill so that he can talk to the citizens and gain their trust and pull the people to his side How the President and the Key people communicate They have a go between to talk to both sides And then finally the President decides to get involved in person to talk to the speaker How the other side negotiates These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV V Talked to press and blamed the president for all the people who worked for the government being sent home The Republican party gets to write the budget and the President only gets to edit it slightly They want to keep their constituents happy so they will be voted back into the office How did he negotiate with the speaker The president and the Speaker talk one on one trying to reach an equitable agreement Both of them are arguing over who will give in the most What is affecting the decision to be rushed Social Security checks will not be sent out at the end of each month because the people who usually do it were sent home The Democrats won t want to side with the President that long because they will want to go home for the holidays The President s wife made a dinner for a foreign diplomat and the press liked that as well
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