POLI SCI 104 Lecture 9: Poli Sci 104 week 5, 2
7 Jan 2019
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Tension inherent in congressional organization and functioning: lawmaking (national) vs. representation (local, aggregating preferences. 6 week exam will be on tuesday. Review session sunday october 7 van vleck. Scheduled vote tomorrow on cloture (a procedural vote that ends any potential filibuster) Lengthy new york times report trump"s financial history showing that he received hundreds of millions of dollars from his father: trump opposers: i knew it trump supporters: and so? . Functions as a representative, law making, and oversight body: law making as a national interest, representation of local interests can be decentralizing, oversight a crucial function with few direct benefits to members, accountability is diffused. Yet, in 2016 97% of house and 87% of senate incumbents who ran for reelection won. The short answer: people evaluate congress differently than they evaluate their own representation and senate. Congress is also unpopular, and almost always runs a distant third in public opinion about national institutions.
