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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see. Syllabus: http://gov20h.blogspot.com/2023/08/draft-introduction-to-american-politics.html

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Congress: Institutions and Individuals




If you want to know a member of Congress, you better know a district. (See if your home member appeared.)

Members nowadays reach constituents through the web. See the homepages of Representatives Lois Capps (D-CA), David Dreier (R-CA), and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Look at various constituent services. How do they help members win reelection?

In addition to helping individual constituents, senators and House members steer projects to their constituencies. See CNN report on an "earmark." See here for a map of some earmarks.

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