Friday 10/3: Election Update and Committees

On Friday you got an election update about how the candidates for U.S. president felt about the war in Iraq. For later classes we found out in real time that the U.S. Congress and President Bush agreed to pass the $700 Billion bail out package for the economy.

Don't forget: watch any of the debates between presidential candidates and tell me what they said about the issues for extra credit. It will replace your lowest classwork grade!

When we got to work on Congress, we remembered from the days before that the most important step to a bill becoming a law is when the bill is in committee. A LOT is decided there.
We practiced assigning bill to committee. For example, a bill about government spending would go to the appropriations committeel; a bill about a treaty with another country would go to the foreign relations committee; a bill amending the No Child Left Behind Act would go to the committee on Education and Labor; a bill proposing a $700B bailout of the economy would go to the joint economic committee.