Censorship-Adam Crawford

Background: the President should seek international agreements to protect Internet freedom; and (2) some U.S. businesses, in assisting foreign governments to restrict online access to U.S.-supported websites and government reports and to identify individual Internet users, are working contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests.

Goal of Action: The government should only be able to censor art when they are funding the exhibition themselves.

Type of Power: Implied power

Analysis: I think that government should only be able to censor art only when they are the ones funding it. This would be great because freedom of speech comes in to account when your able to make whatever you like since we have such freedoms its only fair if we have both government funding exhibitions and private funded so we can have two different points of view.

Perry D'Angelo- Volunteering

Background:To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to improve the educational awards provided for national service, and for other purposes .Latest Major Action: 4/22/2009 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

Goal Of Action: To make make the educational award amount the average cost for a four year college.

Specifics/Means of Goal: To promote service in the community and make kids want to win the award so that they can go to college for close to nothing.

Type of Power: The power to amend would a expressed power by congress.

Analysis: I think that it would be a good thing for congress to pass because it would for sure promote high school students who can't afford college to want to do this service and try and win an educational award to get rewarded for their hard work.

Trevor Setterlin

Background:

They want to create a designation for National Animal Rescue Day. This will create awareness in animal rescue programs, spaying and neutering pets, encourage people to adopt from shelters and the importance of adopting. This will increase knowledge of animal rescue in the United States.

It went to the House Committee on oversight and Government reform. The House of Representatives passed it.

Goal of Action:

To create a designation for National Animal Rescue Day

Specifics/Means of Goal:

The House has to support it to be passed.

Type of Power:

Legislative

Analysis:

This is a good bill because it will create awareness throughout the United States about animal rescue programs, and the importance of spaying and neutering pets, and why it is important to adopt from shelters.

Chris Bifsha - Public assistance (S.609 )

Background: Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Nonprofit Capacity Building program requiring the Corporation for National and Community Service to award matching grants to intermediary nonprofit organizations for the delivery of organizational development assistance to small and midsized nonprofit organizations, especially those facing resource hardship challenges.Directs the Corporation, to the extent practicable, to award such a grant to an intermediary nonprofit organization in each state.Requires grantees to raise their share of the costs of providing such assistance through contributions from third parties, except where the grantee is a private foundation or specified charity.

Goal of Action: To help take the problem of money from newly found charities.

Specifics/Means of the goal: The government would help new charities that need money to start and give them grants and funds to help them get going. Also the money would not be granted to the privet charities.

Type of Power: Congress is using implied power in this case because these evolves the country's money and it needs to be regulated so that we are not wasting money.

Analysis: yes. congress goes have the implied power to make the country's budget and things like this bill are taken into account when it is all put together. But the most important step is that the president must sign the budget plan. if not then it goes back to committee to be reviewed and revised.

Andrew Wagner

PART A - DUE TUESDAY MARCH 9TH:

Using the Congressional engine on Thomas, identify a congressional action related to your capstone project and fill in the following information.

- Copy and paste the following in a new blog post.
- Label your entry with the topic of your Capstone.

Background (What circumstances necessitate Congressional action?/What happened to the Bill in Congress? Did it pass, or die in committee?):

THIS BILL IS SAYING THAT ALL RESIDENTS OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH BY EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. ALSO THEY ENCOURAGE KNOWING OTHER LANGUAGES. THEY DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO LOOSE THEIR CULTURE BY LOOSING THEIR LANGUAGE. THEY ALSO WANNA CONTINUE TO OFFER SERVICES IN OTHER THAN ENGLISH.






Goal of Action:

TO IMPROVE EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF ENGLISH



Specifics/Means of Goal:

CREATING MORE FOCUS ON ENGLISH EDUACATION


Type of Power (Is Congress acting according to an expressed or implied power? If it is implied, what expressed power grants it? - Check the Constitution to figure this out!):

LEGESLATIVE





Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)

YES, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE POWER TO REGULATE THE EDUCATION STANDARDS

O-H...

You have been exploring the powers of Congress this week. Your Representative, Mary Jo Kilroy has been working on the following:

H.RES.1047
Title: Commending The Ohio State University Buckeyes football team for its victory in the 2010 Rose Bowl.
Sponsor: Rep Kilroy, Mary Jo [OH-15] (introduced 1/27/2010) Cosponsors (26)

ALL ACTIONS:

1/27/2010:

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

2/23/2010:

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

Mr. Pierluisi moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1203-1205)

3/9/2010 4:40pm:

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 1047.

3/9/2010 4:53pm:

At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Pierluisi objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.

There was a 40 minute debate about this resolution. You can link to the debate below:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r111:3:./temp/~r111YZKSrk::

Is this an expressed, or an implied power of Congress? Should Congress be spending time on this type of work?

Healthcare

ABSENT

Title: To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assure comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage for all Americans through an American Health Benefits Program.

Background (What circumstances necessitate Congressional action? /what happened to the Bill in Congress? Did it pass, or die in committee?):

H.R.2399

The healthcare debate has been going on for a long time but has increased in the last two years. There have only been minimal references to the bill by the Speaker, Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the House Ways and Means. The bill did die down due to the lack of support from others in the House.

Goal of Action:

Goals of this bill are to create a health care system that ensures insurance and care for all Americans. It would create yet another bureaucracy in our government by establishing independent Health Benefits Administration. In addition to establishing another government bureaucracy, to make sure that the bill would be carried out correctly another bureaucracy the Health Benefits Commission.

Specifics/Means of Goal:

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a premium on individuals enrolled in a qualified health plan under SSA title XXII, which shall be reduced by the amount of government contribution; (2) allow a tax credit to covered individuals equal to the sum of the aggregate amount of premiums paid (other than government contributions) with respect to the individual's coverage, and the applicable premium subsidy; (3) impose on every employer an excise tax equal to the applicable percentage of the wages paid employees; (4) allow a tax credit against such excise tax for periods during which an employee is covered by qualified employer-provided coverage; and (5) impose a tax on hospital revenues.

Type of Power (Is Congress acting according to an expressed or implied power? If it is implied, what expressed power grants it? - Check the Constitution to figure this out!):

This bill would be an expressed power because it is not stated in the U.S. Constitution that every citizen in America must be covered by insurance and have healthcare provided by taxpayers.

Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)

I do not think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers because is creating a socialist environment. It is not fiscally responsible to have every single American fully covered by insurance and have accessibility to healthcare. The idea of the bill sounds great and is a very broad viewpoint of how our healthcare system should be. The bill is specific about the people who are covered but not about those American’s that are paying for other’s healthcare benefits. By working and earning my money, I certainly do not want to be taxed higher than I already am because I have to help other’s healthcare. The taxpayer does not get any type of compensation for their taxation, thus I disagree with this Bill and Congress should not use their constitutional powers.