1st hour Symposium
If you have comments or questions that you didn't get a chance to provide during class today you may post them here. Posts must be added by noon Nov. 8th. I am going to challenge you to only post content that we have not already discussed during the symposium or that has been discussed in class during our 2 weeks studying Congress thus far. Find something off the beaten path from other parts you have read in Chapter 12 or you researched yourself.
Mr. Thompson
posted by erdecker @ 10:13 AM
11 comments
11 Comments:
Brooke Johnson- How will the government shutdown effect our economy and why have Congress not made decisions and resolutions about the budget before this threat of shutdown.
Jared Bromberg-
Do government officials get paid too much/ too little for the amount of work they do?
Namrata Damle-
Well... I found that the average senator or representative is paid over $150,000 which may sound ridiculous, but I think that amount is an underpayment for the time and effort these people need to put into their jobs. All the same, aren't they supposed to be called "public servants"? I sense some irony here.
I think that there are some senators and representatives that truly do earn their $150,000, but for many of the officials that are only doing everything they can just to help themselves win another election and not truly helping their constituents do not deserve the money they are getting. Is there some way to award those officials who are actually getting stuff done or is it too hard to tell what motives the officials have for doing the things they do?
Will the United States ever reach a point in which the population grows so much that the 435 representatives will be representing too many people individually and the government will have to add more representatives?
Even with checks and balances, would there ever be an instance where both houses of Congress as well as the president were all from the same party, and held such a majority in both houses that they could accomplish almost anything that they wanted no matter what the opposing party wished?
Would a higher representation of independents in either house swing bill voting substantially?
I think that a higher representation of independents could eventually swing bill voting substantially, but only if independents came together to support in a majority higher than Republicans or Democrats. With only a few added independents, I think it would still be difficult to sway others towards their ideas to impact bill voting substantially.
-Mikaela Thelen
Is it really necessary for 11,000 bills to be introduced to congress when so many of them are killed off early on?
Why is Congress typically such a "reactive and cumbersome" decision making body? (Cumbersome is defined as clumsy or troublesome)
-Mikaela Thelen
Could the government shut down a few weeks ago have been prevented if the congressional representatives were among the people who didn't get paid during the shutdown?
I think it is necessary for so many bills to be introduced, even though they get killed off early, they must have been important to someone, so they deserve to at least be considered, and researched to see if its a good idea.
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