LINKING ASSIGNMENT PART 1
For Part 1, you need to find out some basic information about your CA State Senator (the person who represents your CA State Senate District in the CA State Senate), your CA State Assemblyperson (the person who represents your CA State Senate District in the CA State Assembly), and your U.S. Congressperson (the person who represents your U.S. Congress District in the U.S. House of Representatives)
Please submit the assignment in the following format: ———-
Linking Assignment Part 1
Your name
Political science ”POSC” 100 – Intro American Government
I. Your address:
II. U.S. Congressperson:
A. District:
B. Party affiliation:
C. Length of service in this office: (year first elected to this office, or number of years in this office as of 2012)
D. Previous work experience:
–include government and other occupations
–do not include committee work, etc. that is done as part of the person’s current position (eg., House Committee on Homeland Security)
III. California State Senator:
A. District:
B. Party affiliation:
C. Length of service in this office: D. Previous work experience:
IV. California State Assemblyperson: A. District:
B. Party affiliation:
C. Length of service in this office:
D. Previous work experience: ———
Where can you find this information? You can find your California representatives by going to: http://www.assembly.ca.gov (State Assembly) or http://www.sen.ca.gov (State Senate). Information on the U.S. House of Representatives can be found at: http://www.house.gov. The Statewide Database (http://swdb.berkeley.edu) also has helpful links, as does Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org). Most representatives also have their own web pages. Alternatively, you also can call your representative’s local office.
*Do NOT simply cut and paste material that you find on the Internet into your assignment; re- phrase the information in your own words. If material is cut and pasted without citation of your source, it is plagiarism, and will result in an “F” for the assignment.
LINKING ASSIGNMENT PART 2
For Part 2, you first need to find out how well your representatives are representing your views.
POSC 100 students: For this part of the assignment, you will choose two issues that you feel strongly about and research the public statements, voting record, and interest group ratings of one of the three representatives that you looked at in Part 1, with regard to your issue.
Please submit the assignment in the following format: ———-
Linking Assignment Part 2
I. Your representative’s name, title (State Assemblyperson/State Senator/U.S. Congressperson), and district number
A. Issue #1
1. Your view
2. Your representative’s stance on the issue.
a) Public statements
b) Specific legislation that s/he has sponsored, or voted for or against, as well as legislation that is currently pending. Include the bill number(s), as well as a brief description of what the legislation would do. If there has been no legislation on the issue, make note of this.
c) Relevant interest group ratings. Include a description of the interest group’s stance on your issue, and explain what the group’s rating means.
B. Issue #2
1.Your view
2. Your representative’s stance on the issue…(continue with the outline detailed above)
Go over the sliced one by one in order .