Monday December 15 2014 Agenda Review Last Weeks

Monday December 15, 2014 Agenda Review Last Week’s Material Interest Groups and Lobbyists How a Bill Becomes a Law Video Homework/Announcements Write 1 Paragraph in which you: Create an Interest Group of your own dedicated to a specific cause. What is that cause? What does your group hope to accomplish? How could your interest group bring attention to your cause and how could it affect the law making process? Progress Reports go home Tomorrow. How a Bill Becomes a Law Quiz on Thursday

Civics and Economics Day 75

Review

Who Represents Us? 1. 2. 3.

Gerrymandering What is Gerrymandering? Why does gerrymandering happen?

Does this District seem gerrymandered? Why or why not?

Biased and Unbiased What is a bias? How does this Picture show bias? How can bias affect things?

Campaign Financing How much does it cost to win an election? Where do they get this money? What is “Citizens United” and how did it affect elections? What is a Super PAC?

Lobbyists and Interest Groups Notes

Interest Groups A group of people banded together for a common purpose. Examples: NRA- National Rifle Association. NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People AARP- American Association of Retired People.

Lobbyists • Lobbyists – Someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for legislation – Often these are people paid to try and change how people vote.

Example: Interest Group: ACS CAN Lobbyist: Mr. Neanover

Another Example:

Lobbyists and Interest Groups: Are they good or bad?

Good or Bad? Good Bad Bring attention to specific issues Lobbyists work for organizations that know more about issues than a lot of politicians. People listen to who give them money Ex: ACS CAN Contributions come with strings attached.

Explain this?

Homework Write 1 Paragraph in which you: Create an Interest Group of your own dedicated to a specific cause. What is that cause? What does your group hope to accomplish? How could your interest group bring attention to your cause and how could it affect the law making process?