111th United States Congress

Saturday Night Live Satire Through, the use of parody and low comedy; the producers of Saturday Night live expose the behavior and habits of our Candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In this certain episode “Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Debate Cold Open” the actors embody their role quintessentially. Everyone knows Donald Trump's phrase “Wrong” and the fact that he likes to speak nothing but ludicrousness when addressing certain situations. During the episode the actor…

Each of the bills was introduced at very different times in American history. It seems like every year immigration reform is on the table for Congress but no one agrees perfectly on how to do it. The IRCA demonstrates the two parties at least willing to be able to cross party lines for immigration reform even if it is not perfect. The failure of the 2007 bill begins to show the darker future of non-partisanship in which the two parties go far left and far right digging in their heels stopping…

Divided government is the result of one party controlling the White house and the other controlling either or both chambers of Congress. The past four decades have made this more of the norm than an exception. Divided government is a safeguard against abuse of power through power sharing, support, and forcing governing from the center. Splitting the power between the two parties creates incentives to compromise. The essence of divided government is having both parties responsible for governing,…

Morris P. Fiorina, who wrote The Rise of the Washington Establishment, is a political scientist who received his education from the University of Rochester as well as Allegheny College from 1968 to 1972. At the age of 70, he is currently the Professor at Stanford who teaches political science. He has multiple writings that converse about the government and even has an award for these writings. The Rise of the Washington Establishment discusses that the federal bureaucracy has taken over and…

Alyssa Mattson 2A Current Event #3 Despite mutual agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties, the Senate still could not pass a bill enacting criminal justice reform. It was believed that this overhaul bill would be the “bipartisan success story of the year”, according to New York Times writer Carl Hulse. However, this was not the case. Some Republicans Senators disagreed with the idea of reducing minimum sentences, as well as providing President Obama with a “legacy victory”…

Claudius in Hamlet states, “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go,” and this applies to any age in…

years Political Scientists have considered institutional power as the bases of the United States. Political Scientists also consider institutional power as the core of the government, churches and corporation behaviors. For Example Art.1 section 8 Clause 18, explains that the power that the constitution gives to Congress is the “necessary and proper clause”, this clause is important because the words gives congress the right to make laws that is necessary and proper for carrying out the power…

I completely agree with everything you said, I feel everything that you do. Presidential election is all about the big promises and the bigger the better. Promises from the Presidential candidates are like bribes to pull us in, the bigger and shinier the promises are the more of us get pulled in. The sad part is neither Trump or Hillary has pulled me in, when those two talk all I hear now is blah blah blah. I don’t believe a word either one of those two says. I am a little afraid of what’s…

Since outmoded times, the Prime Minister’s (PM’s) roles have largely remained unchanged but their manners of execution have been influenced more by practical circumstances than the materiality of the roles themselves. The conventional view of the PM as being ‘primus inter pares’ seems quite anachronistic considering the apparent increase in PMs’ power. Nonetheless, the tenability of this view will be determined in the analysis of the PM’s and the Cabinet’s roles and their relationship before the…

On Sept. 24, Pope Francis gave his first address to the United States Congress. The speech, which pushed a message of peace, environmental responsibility and economic justice, did not go over well with House Republicans. House Majority Leader John Boehner invited the Pope to speak, but the pontiff's politically-charged address condemned many policies the GOP promotes and called out the House for refusing to enact meaningful change in America and around the world. The Bishop of Rome issued a…