Strategy Of Persuasion

In the simulation today, we split into the House, the Senate, and the Executive Branch. In the House, we split into the Internal Matters Committee, Government Operations Committee, and the Budget Committee, where the first two committees reviewed today 's mail, took notes on the mail, and reviewed and formed stances on the legislation written about in the letters. All of the members of the House then joined together with the Budget Committee members and discussed the budget. We finalized the proposed budget by the House and then joined with the Senate Budget Committee to discuss the budget and made compromises on the final budget Congress will propose to President Millworth. Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House was in discussions with the President …show more content…
I observed the strategy of persuasion between the President, the Speaker of the House, and the members of the Senate who are not on the Senate Budget Committee. These players would attempt to persuade players of the opposite political party to encourage the passing of certain legislation in their chambers by acknowledging how this legislation would benefit the public interest and would help with our deficit created by our increased spending. I also observed the strategy of compromise between the House Budget Committee, all of the other members of the House, and the Senate Budget Committee. While attempting to create a final draft of Congress’ budget to propose to President Millworth, members of both political parties wanted to keep their interests afloat. However, both parties were willing to decrease the budgets or not increase the budgets of certain governmental areas as much as they wanted to in order to pass a …show more content…
The House continues to push for the passing of Bill 247, which would expand the right to Freedom of Speech because the concept of hate speech would no longer be applied. This would allow for groups that genuinely believe in the superiority of one race over another to express these views and advocate for the elimination of races they deem inferior. However, in light of the recent attacks on African American churches and on homosexuals, the democrat-dominated Senate and the democratic President all refuse to even acknowledge this bill. This encourages the House to act stubbornly and to not pass legislation which would promote Democratic interests. The talks about passing certain pieces of legislation which would generate revenue for the United States federal government led only to disagreement. These pieces of legislation discussed are favored more by the Democrats than the Republicans. While passing these bills would generate revenue and lessen the blow of our increasing deficit, the Republican-dominated House refuses to pass these bills since they benefit the Democrats more than the Republicans. As a result, the various governmental institutions who called for an increase in their budgets will either have a decreased budget or a budget which remains the same, lessening the abilities of these governmental areas to