Bill Vote
Data Collection Assignment Your task in this assignment is to collect a series of congressional votes. Specifically, you need to locate the following: Votes on three (3) bills. The bills may be in the House or in the Senate, but you may not mix the two. You will need to have a complete record of how every member voted on each bill -- be sure to include this in your final results. For each bill used provide the following information: 1. Detailed description of each bill (150 word minimum, no quoting) 2. Bill number 3. Bill’s sponsors (state and political party) 4. Legislative committees responsible for the bill 5. Final vote (by member and breakdown by political party) 6. Consequences of the outcome for each bill 7. A full citation of the website (URL) in Turabian format for where you obtained your data. (Note that it may be necessary to use more than one website to provide the information for this assignment. Websites that publish roll call votes may not include a detailed bill description or information about committees that reported out the bill.) Potential resources available for this assignment United States Senate website http://www(dot)senate(dot)gov United States House of Representatives website http://www(dot)house(dot)gov Washington Post Votes Database http://projects(dot)washingtonpost(dot)com/congress/?nid=roll_housesenvote Project Vote Smart http://www(dot)vote-smart(dot)org
Bill Vote
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Social Sciences
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May 5th, 2013
Farm Bill
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