Wednesday, November 23, 2011

How Washington Works

10 Facts:
1).Sometimes an amendment is a complete substitute bill with quite different impact and meaning, known in the trade as a "killer amendment."
2) People who go to D.C. to serve in the executive branch or Congress are usually lawyers
3) "personal relationships often cut across party and ideological lines." shows political manipulation amoungst those in each specific party ect.
4)  Congress works from Monday afternoon to Friday morning so members have more time to communicate with constituents.
5)  The process to pass a bill is long and exhauasting, it is difficult to get a bill passed
6) There are ongoing changes in political priorities, "The political community lurches from one passion to the next"
7) Politics are usually one subject "passions" in Washington.
8) Patomic fever is the incurable addiction of wielding political power or feeling at the political center.
9) The city and its suburbs are encircled by a sixty-four-mile freeway loop known as the beltway.
10) Newt Gingrich thinks that rather than being a serious professional career, politics are a mind game of manipulation.
10 Questions
1) Who is the most important member of the legislative branch?
2) How much of an effect does this "D.C." culture have in laws, policies?
3) How many politicians are more interested in the attention rather than the "power"?
4.) What is the main motive for being a politican?
5) Is there such a difference between D.C. and the rest of the country?
6) What is the reason why most politicians entered politics in the first place?
7) What are some negative statisitcs on D.C?
8) What is the significance of the constituents? Could they posses more power than the politician at some point
9) Have there recently been any fist fights between representatives? What are the personal relationships like?
10) What is another significant field in D.C (job wise). How many jobs are there in D.C. that revolve around the government?

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