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 Legislative Coalition Building (540.0K)Alliances between factions are powerful and influential. Legislators must consider the effects of the laws they enact on those they represent. They must further their own agenda, while maintaining the favor of those who elect them. With new laws, concessions are sometimes made in order to maintain support and appease objectors. As a committee chair, you must analyze the law you are purporting to pass, and its ramifications. Consider the benefits of the law to your agenda, and identify the concessions you are willing to make, before beginning to bargain. Can you win the support of others by representing some of their interests as well as your own? Can you write a law that will have something for everyone included? How a Bill Becomes a Law (262.0K)
Often laws are written to redress existing problems, or to address new ones. As a member of Congress, you must evaluate the severity of the problem that has been identified, and the effectiveness in addressing this problem that the proposed Bill offers. Trace the process of how a Bill becomes a law. Learn the problem, initiate action, and present it to your colleagues. If others agree that your bill will correct a perceived problem fairly and efficiently, your bill may become law. If your argument if not effective you face failure to pass n congress, or Presidential veto. Enact a law that addresses a real problem, proposes a solution, and does not conflict with the interests of your colleagues.
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