Facts/Details
1. First clinic of birth control was opened in 1916
2. It was opened by Margaret Sanger who was one of 11 children
3. Margaret Sanger came up with the name of birth control
4. Sanger helped deliver mothers baby and raised them after her mother died.
5. Mother died of tuberculosis at young age
6. Sanger became a socialist
7. Birthrates for working class are still very high
8. Sanger decided to try and make contraception legal
9. Condoms started in 1850 which were expensive and hard to get
10. Child birth was very dangerous.
Questions
1. Should abortion be legal for all people?
2. What part of the Constitution deals with abortion?
3. What is abortion such a big issue today?
4. Has abortion always been a big issue?
5. Why was birth control and abortions established?
6. How did the public react to the idea of birth control when it first originated?
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Committees - Bob Casey
Bob Casey’s Committees
3. Committee has primary jurisdiction over private retirement plans and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
3. Includes 5 Subcommittees
2. Bicameral Congressional Committee composed of ten members from each the Senate and the House of Representatives
3. Ten Democrats and ten Republicans on the Committee
4. Main purpose is to make a continuing study of matters relating to the US economy. The Committee holds hearings, performs research and advises Members of Congress.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
1. Chairman – Tom Harkin
2. Committee is ensuring our country’s workforce is prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st Century3. Committee has primary jurisdiction over private retirement plans and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
1. Meetings- first and third Wednesdays of the month
2. Matters relate to issues such as: Home economics, Human nutrition, Inspection of livestock, meat, and agricultural products, Pests and pesticides, and School nutrition programs3. Includes 5 Subcommittees
Joint Economic Committee
1. Chairman - Bob Casey 2. Bicameral Congressional Committee composed of ten members from each the Senate and the House of Representatives
3. Ten Democrats and ten Republicans on the Committee
4. Main purpose is to make a continuing study of matters relating to the US economy. The Committee holds hearings, performs research and advises Members of Congress.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Immigration Questions
1. What happens if illegal immigrants have children that were born in the US? Are they (the children) also considered illegal immigrants?
2. What is life like for the child of an illegal immigrant?
3. Is it really fair to make a person a citizen if they have illegally immigrants for parents, even though they themselves were born on US soil?
This three questions I chose are all related by having to do with illegal immigrants and their children. If an illegal immigrant had their child in the US, the child is considered a citizen of the United States; however their parents are still considered illegal immigrants. About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 (or 8 percent) had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant.
"The study comes as lawmakers in Washington have been debating whether to consider changing the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States." Should they? (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/us/12babies.html)
In the Frontline program we watched in class, a family was interviewed who had parents of illegal immigrants. These young children don't quite know about this illegal thing until a parent is deported. In this case, their mom was deported. The father was lost without her and did not know what to do. Should he stay in the US safely with his kids or go find his wife and kids in harm? The kids was completely upset hoping to once reunite with their mother sometime. Each kid had a dream. One was a lawyer and police officer but after this incident they completely changed their minds. Seeing these kids and how they have to live without their mother really makes me and other think: is it right for parents of legal citizen kids be deported?
My opinion on this matter is that parents of legal kids should not be deported. I personally cannot imagine living without my mom or dad especially knowing they are forced to live somewhere else. They aren't doing any harm to the US citizens so why deport them for some small stupid crime such as no turn signal? It just makes no sense. How can we find away around this?
2. What is life like for the child of an illegal immigrant?
3. Is it really fair to make a person a citizen if they have illegally immigrants for parents, even though they themselves were born on US soil?
This three questions I chose are all related by having to do with illegal immigrants and their children. If an illegal immigrant had their child in the US, the child is considered a citizen of the United States; however their parents are still considered illegal immigrants. About 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 (or 8 percent) had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant.
"The study comes as lawmakers in Washington have been debating whether to consider changing the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States." Should they? (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/us/12babies.html)
In the Frontline program we watched in class, a family was interviewed who had parents of illegal immigrants. These young children don't quite know about this illegal thing until a parent is deported. In this case, their mom was deported. The father was lost without her and did not know what to do. Should he stay in the US safely with his kids or go find his wife and kids in harm? The kids was completely upset hoping to once reunite with their mother sometime. Each kid had a dream. One was a lawyer and police officer but after this incident they completely changed their minds. Seeing these kids and how they have to live without their mother really makes me and other think: is it right for parents of legal citizen kids be deported?
My opinion on this matter is that parents of legal kids should not be deported. I personally cannot imagine living without my mom or dad especially knowing they are forced to live somewhere else. They aren't doing any harm to the US citizens so why deport them for some small stupid crime such as no turn signal? It just makes no sense. How can we find away around this?
Friday, November 11, 2011
Electoral College
Facts/Details
1. Under the current system, the winner of the statewide popular vote receives all of the electoral votes from that state.
2. New system proposed: if a candidate wins a congressional district, he or she would receive one electoral college vote.
3. Part of the new system: whoever does best in the statewide race would receive two electoral votes.4. Proposal before the Republican-controlled state legislature that would change the apportionment of Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes for President from winner-take-all statewide to winner-take-all by congressional district
5. A group of people has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund an effort to change the rules of the 2012 presidential election to make it very difficult for President Barack Obama to win reelection
6. Democrats have won Pennsylvania in the last five presidential elections
7. Pileggi proposed this idea in Pennsylvania
8. They believe this is a bad idea because they think the overall voting rate will go down
9. Pennsylvania’s electoral vote in 2008 under the district plan would have gone 11 for Obama 10 for McCain.
10. Seven Democratic U.S. House members in safely Democratic districts and eight of the 12 Republican Pennsylvania House members from are districts considered marginal
Questions
1. Why would they make this change?
2. Would it make counting the votes harder?
3. Would campaigning increase? Why or why not?
4. "If the Republican plan becomes law in either Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, those states would change how electoral votes are awarded." Why just these specific states? Why not all of them?
5. Who supports this change and who does not?
6. Is this really simply to try and make Obama lose?
7. Why is Pennsylvania 'so competitive'?
8. Should Congress eliminate the electoral college all together? Why or why not?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
West Wing Episode #2
Facts/Details
1. 1 Person can hold up a debate/bill
2. Filibuster causes a hold up causing drama
3. Filibuster comes from a Dutch word
4. 60 votes are needed to end a debate
5. Longest filibuster according to the show was 24 hours
6. A cloture vote ends a filibuster
7. During a filibuster you cannot eat drink, use the bathroom, sit down, or lean on anything
8. Senators are allowed to hold the floor as long as possible during a filibuster as long as they can follow the rules listed above.
9. Filibuster is a loop hole in the Senate
Questions
1. Can you open a closed bill? How?
2. What does a President do during a filibuster?
3. How long do these typically last?
4. Are there multiple reasons for a filibuster to occur?
5. Can we avoid the chaos of a filibuster? How?
1. 1 Person can hold up a debate/bill
2. Filibuster causes a hold up causing drama
3. Filibuster comes from a Dutch word
4. 60 votes are needed to end a debate
5. Longest filibuster according to the show was 24 hours
6. A cloture vote ends a filibuster
7. During a filibuster you cannot eat drink, use the bathroom, sit down, or lean on anything
8. Senators are allowed to hold the floor as long as possible during a filibuster as long as they can follow the rules listed above.
9. Filibuster is a loop hole in the Senate
Questions
1. Can you open a closed bill? How?
2. What does a President do during a filibuster?
3. How long do these typically last?
4. Are there multiple reasons for a filibuster to occur?
5. Can we avoid the chaos of a filibuster? How?
Immigration- Frontline Program
Facts/Details
1. Illegal immigrants are high under Obama than Bush
2. Curran says 20% in jail are without immigrant documents
3. Goal is to report and remove criminal aliens
4. Many immigrants do not want to leave Mexico but are forced due to fear and circumstances
5. Less than 20% illegal immigrants carry out serious crimes
6. 400,000 deports is the target number
7. 36% of undocumented have families in US and lived in the US for over 11 years
8. 3 million were detains and brought to detention centers in the last decade
9. Texas has the largest detention center, holding 300,000
10. Some say restricting immigrants is doing more damage than help
Questions
1. Do they deport any immigrant noncriminals?
2. Is it fair to deport parents of young children?
3. Are simple crimes such as no turn sign necessary to deport?
4. If immigrants leaver there own country due to fear and come to the US with more fear of being deported, why do they move?
5. Does any other country have this problem? If so, how do they deal with it?
1. Illegal immigrants are high under Obama than Bush
2. Curran says 20% in jail are without immigrant documents
3. Goal is to report and remove criminal aliens
4. Many immigrants do not want to leave Mexico but are forced due to fear and circumstances
5. Less than 20% illegal immigrants carry out serious crimes
6. 400,000 deports is the target number
7. 36% of undocumented have families in US and lived in the US for over 11 years
8. 3 million were detains and brought to detention centers in the last decade
9. Texas has the largest detention center, holding 300,000
10. Some say restricting immigrants is doing more damage than help
Questions
1. Do they deport any immigrant noncriminals?
2. Is it fair to deport parents of young children?
3. Are simple crimes such as no turn sign necessary to deport?
4. If immigrants leaver there own country due to fear and come to the US with more fear of being deported, why do they move?
5. Does any other country have this problem? If so, how do they deal with it?
John Boehner
Facts/Details
Questions
1. Represents Ohio's 8th Congressional District.
2. Republican
3. “Biggest regret” of his speakership: he failed to cut a multitrillion-dollar deficit-reduction deal with President Barack Obama
4. Former House Speaker said: John kind of watches and sees where it goes and kind of herds the flock that way
5. Boehner’s Republicans have used the leverage of controlling a single chamber of Congress to slash $1 trillion or so from the budget over the next decade.
6. One of the most striking aspects of the first year since Boehner won control of the House is how little the new role seems to have changed him.
7. It is said that he always votes no
8. Most dramatic change of this year: Spending less money, passing free-trade agreements
9. Believes House should "work its will."
2. Republican
3. “Biggest regret” of his speakership: he failed to cut a multitrillion-dollar deficit-reduction deal with President Barack Obama
4. Former House Speaker said: John kind of watches and sees where it goes and kind of herds the flock that way
5. Boehner’s Republicans have used the leverage of controlling a single chamber of Congress to slash $1 trillion or so from the budget over the next decade.
6. One of the most striking aspects of the first year since Boehner won control of the House is how little the new role seems to have changed him.
7. It is said that he always votes no
8. Most dramatic change of this year: Spending less money, passing free-trade agreements
9. Believes House should "work its will."
Questions1. How can the House "work its will?" What does that include?
2. How is he the Speaker of the House?
3. Do people actually like him in the House?
4. Has he done anything to significantly help or harm Congress?
5. How can he work while being so against the Senate and President? Why is he?
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