Homework: Feb. 2

The Unpersuaded: Who listens to a President?  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/19/120319fa_fact_klein

Homework - Feb. 1

Textbook pages 397-400

Homework - Jan. 31

Brian Williams "Inside the Obama White House" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twKWM00ikkE&list=PL938FA3EB4AEF391E

State of the Union (5th period watched all of this, 8th watched most of this) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fBWo_TO7xQ

The Cabinet (5th period already watched this) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxSvi6JCCfk

The Situation Room (5th period already watched this) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ch13ZuMu8

Former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u45tLRltq54&list=PLE90E84BD2EBCECD7

Former Senior Advisor David Axelrod - http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/September-2013/Obama-Axelrod/



OPTIONAL - If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, here is the White House YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos

Homework - Jan. 29-30

Wednesday, Jan. 29 - Textbook - pages 389-392

Thursday, Jan. 30 - Textbook - pages 393-396

State of the Union: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu

State of the Union response: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/28/rep-mcmorris-rodgers-champions-personal-responsibility-in-gop-response-to-state/

Obama's weekly address about sexual assault: http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-taking-action-to-end-sexual-assault/1837488.html

Rubio's SOTU response water bottle moment: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/video/thefold/behind-the-water-bottle-who-is-marco-rubio/2013/02/13/caa45b66-7606-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_video.html

Jan. 28 assignment - SotU

Watch the State of the Union address tonight, including the Republican response afterward.

Jan. 21 reading

Just Say No To Earmarks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JOHwqodwZyJdio4RWWV2epvcnH6G_mOnB-KtcCVyoUc/pub

In Praise of Pork: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RBtym50fACY0Rnb2JadVJFYjA/edit?usp=sharing



Deficit spending charts (from class)

http://www.newsnshit.com/charts/newsNshit-deficit-chart.gif

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0oBr9XL8XeINrOkLJdsF0AcVTrW5_2eNNJjtiWJ1gy3PxVZxe1MxJS79KuC06p-x1DY9MxhmiR7LEnn7HUIAFCy3MkTbbyXnQcBCVaPJfsYJ-SoeqrPPNPkwPGWb41vQvTDxXKt0VDbxy/s1600/DeficitCBO.jpg

Jan. 17 reading

Prisoner's Dilemma and American politics (required): http://balanceofeconomics.com/2013/01/03/national-affairs-the-political-prisoners-dilemma/

Net Neutrality (optional): http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/ruling-endangers-internet.html

Iran, Obama, and Congress (don't read all of them, obviously)
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-us-iran-20140113,0,341164.story#axzz2qLN8ioCo

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/02/congress-iran-sanctions-sabotage-agreement

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/14/iran-deal-us-congress-derail-dumb

http://www.niacouncil.org/site/DocServer/S1881_Org_Letter.pdf?docID=2661

http://www.lobelog.com/47-senators-take-aipacs-word-over-u-s-intel-community/

http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/american-senators-conflict.html

Good viewing on the history of US-Iran relations (optional): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WVtpao0KSM&safe=active


From class
Congressional leadership roster: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/

Intelligence committee influence on Obama's NSA speech: http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014/01/ahead-obama-speech-congress-intel-leaders-want-little-changed/77048/?oref=d-channelriver?oref=d-interstitial-continue

Congressional Sportsmen Caucus: http://www.sportsmenslink.org/caucuses/congressional/

Boehner's SuperPAC (video - 8th period hasn't seen this yet): http://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2012/07/get-to-know-a-super-pac-congressional-leadership-fund.html

Jan. 15 reading

Peruse the different House and Senate committee descriptions

http://www.house.gov/committees/

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm

http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/


Read this short description of the committee process: http://www.ushistory.org/gov/6c.asp


Net Neutrality: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/court-kills-net-neutrality/

Unit 6 syllabus/study guide

The Unit 6 syllabus/study guide can be found here.

Jan. 13 reading

Revolving door - http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/private-equity-washington-102049.html

Redistricting - http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/funkhouser/col-florida-legislative-congressional-redistricting-gerrymandering.html

Gerrymandering 101 can be found here.  If you didn't watch/finish it in November, do it now.

Gerrymandering game

http://redistrictinggame.org/

Jan. 9 reading

Filibuster essay distributed in class on Friday, Jan. 10.

Filibuster

Rand Paul
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/rand-paul-filibuster-john-brennan-cia-nominee-88507.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/25/poll-shows-huge-support-for-rand-pauls-filibuster-stance-on-drone-attacks/

Bernie Sanders
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/bills-blocked-by-republican-filibusters

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-holds-old-school-filibuster-against-obama-gop-tax-cut-deal/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBBzXixioc

Congressman John Lewis at Powell's Books - Sat. Jan. 18

Congressman John Lewis

Congressman John Lewis is an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March (Top Shelf), a graphic novel trilogy (in collaboration with cowriter Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell). March is a vivid firsthand account of Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Book One spans John Lewis's youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

Preorder a signed edition of March .

Saturday, January 18th @ 12pm Powell's City of Books on Burnside
1005 W Burnside (800) 878-7323

Alternate FRQ

Individuals often form groups in order to promote their interests. The Constitution contains several provisions  that protect the rights of individuals who try to promote their interests in a representative democracy.

(a) Explain two provisions in the Bill of Rights that protect individuals who try to influence politics.

(b) Interest groups engage in a variety of activities to affect public policy. Explain how each of the following is used by interest groups to exert influence over policy.

• Grassroots mobilization  

• Lobbying of government institutions

• Litigation  

(c) Describe one specific federal governmental regulation of interest groups.

Jan. 7 readings

http://www.house.gov/capuano/services/casework.shtml

http://www.house.gov/capuano/services/casework_examples.shtml

http://www.stratfordstar.com/15665/murphy-recovered-1-2-million-for-constituents-in-2013/