Samantha Sloop - Homeless

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

This bill is for the welfare of the people of the United States of America that are homeless or unemployed, to try and help them. This bill became a public law.



Goal of Action:
Declares that the government should intervene with the number of unemployment and homeless people by making jobs and securing them.




Specifics/Means of Goal:

“Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.”





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 is an implied power which is not stated directly in the Constitution, but is under the Elastic Clause. This allows Congress to do whatever is "necessary and proper" and they believe in helping out the population that does not have a job or a home to get one so they can become dependent and stimulate the economy.






Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)
Yes I think that congress should do this because if they don’t, who will? Congress should be concerned with the well being of Americans and help them out so they can survive in our struggling economy.