{"id":685,"date":"2016-04-15T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/?p=685"},"modified":"2016-05-05T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:03:21","slug":"congress-in-session-april-15-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/congress-in-session-april-15-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress In Session, April 15-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two weeks of classes, we&#8217;ll focus in on the legislative process and on recent \/ contemporary policies and politics through a project of writing your own bill and taking it up in our Congress&#8217;s legislative session. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.congressional-maps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/House-of-Representatives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.congressional-maps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/House-of-Representatives.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"370\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/203-CongressProjectGuidelines-Spr16.pdf\"\">Download project guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CongressBillTemplate.2016.docx\"\">Download bill template (Word doc) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us45-16.wikispaces.com\/Day7\">Congress Day #7<\/a> &#8211; April 15th. Learn about the legislative process. Research and decide on your bill or resolution and begin drafting it. <\/p>\n<p>Bill Workshop Day \u2013 April 20th.  Finalize your bill, and work as a Congress to organize the pending legislation into committee agendas and a queue for debate on the floor. <\/p>\n<p>Email it to me in its final form by midnight Wednesday April 20 as a Word doc. I will give each document a number, post it to the Congress Wiki, and print it out for our next Congress day. <\/p>\n<p>Day 8 \u2013 Fri 4\/22 \u2013 Legislative Session #1<br \/>\nWe will conduct hearings and vote on as many acts as possible. <\/p>\n<p>Day 9 \u2013 Fri 4\/29 \u2013 Legislative Session #2<br \/>\nWe will conduct hearings and vote on as many acts as possible. <\/p>\n<p>After Day 9 \u2013 update your committee page to its final form by Mon 5\/2 (last day of class)<\/p>\n<p>Mon 5\/9 (Exam #4 day, 8:30 am) \u2013 Reflection paper due on the Congress project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two weeks of classes, we&#8217;ll focus in on the legislative process and on recent \/ contemporary policies and politics through a project of writing your own bill and taking it up in our Congress&#8217;s legislative session. Download bill template (Word doc) Schedule: Congress Day #7 &#8211; April 15th. Learn about the legislative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-spr16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}