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Forum 2.2 - Committees on the Environment

9/27/2017

9 Comments

 
Guiding Thought Question: What is an advantage, and a disadvantage of having sub-committees with different jurisdictions (defined below) within the House and the Senate, made up of members from both political parties, to debate and change bills before they are sent to the rest of the House or Senate to be voted on? 

Committee Jurisdiction - The subjects and functions assigned to a committee by rule, resolution, precedent, or practice, including legislative matters, oversight and investigations, and nominations of executive officers.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain the purpose of committees within the house and the senates. Students will examine a committee within the house, and one within the senate, and explain the purpose, and the types of bills that both deal with. Students will prepare a short informative presentation dealing with their assigned committee.

Central Question: How is decision making delegated to ensure best possible outcome? (HS.1.1.c, HS.1.2.a)
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9 Comments
Lauren S
10/6/2021 07:41:11 am

The subcommittees can refine the bill and try to make it non partisan. The knowledgeable committees can try to get what they want and what is best for people.

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Helena
10/6/2021 07:47:05 am

An advantage of sub-committees with different jurisdiction is that the bill will be able to be checked twice by two different committees, which allows the bill to be checked thoroughly before being put into effect.
A disadvantage of sub-committees with different jurisdiction is that the bill will take forever in order to come into effect because it has to go through multiple jurisdictions.

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Sam Curtis
10/6/2021 07:47:20 am

It's important to spread out the power so no one branch becomes "all-powerful" and has total control, they can all say 'that's not okay' to other branches.

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Sam Curtis
10/6/2021 07:50:39 am

Pretend I read the question right, it's important that things go through subcommittees first so they can catch the dumb ones and not waste congress's time

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Peter S
10/6/2021 07:49:34 am

Pros: More discussion can be done and smaller groups are more productive. Smaller groups can become more informed about an issue than a larger group with more subjects to be informed on.
Cons: Voices and ideas can be lost by not being included on a committee. Having lots of committees can be hard for the public to keep track of and thus lose accountability.

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Wedge
10/6/2021 12:29:00 pm

It allows things to be double checked by people who have a common interest and people who specialize in something. A disadvantage is that it will take more time to pass things

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Mikaela
10/6/2021 12:32:17 pm

An advantage to having sub committees is there is more people to look over things and they can look at thing more in depth with different perceptive. A disadvantage is that because of this it could take longer to pass laws.

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Naidaly G
10/12/2021 01:50:38 pm

Pro: more opinions, ideas and overall people how can speak and advocate for.
Con: due to the various amount and types people it is make up of, the longer and more debatable the actual process for laws it will be.

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Maria
10/12/2021 01:54:52 pm

An advantage to having subcommittees would be allow more passionate voices focus more on topics, more knowledgeable minds behind it
A disadvantage would be harder to pass and take longer to pass/act on urgent or important matters

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