Model Senate Research Paper

As having the advantage of being able to attend the Model Senate; a lot of experiences were achieved. Having three days of being in an environment where it places you in a spot where you learn about how the senate debate and vote over bills. This paper will be about how a senate works and how my senator was impacted in the committee, party, etc. First a small recap of my senator in the Model Senate; my Senator was Bob Casey (Senior), senator of Pennsylvania. Currently, Senator Casey is serving his second term he is the first Senator in the history of Pennsylvania to be elected twice who is a democrat. Casey is a “pro-life” and believes that working for the people is the key to a better society not only for his state but for the United States.

The Model Senate consisted of meetings with the committees which Bob Casey was part of the H.EL.P Committee to debate over a try to pass bills on the floor, then later on both parties meet on the floor so each party could debate over the bill that was introduced first in the committees to the president.

When it comes to passing a bill to the floor we know that there are some rules and procedures. As the book "Congress and its members" state that "Congress rules protect majority and minority rights, divide the workload, help contain conflict, ensure fair play, and distribute power among member." (Davison, 205) By this quote we now know that there's a process when senator passes a bill as for example Senator Casey is a senior and because of his rank, he gets to use his power to talk in the committee and floor. So how this impact the senators? Rules and procedure are not enemies they are there to protect so in this case the majority who are Republicans don't abuse their power; is basically creating a balance in the Congress. When it comes to the introduction of Bills "only members of Congress can introduce legislation." (Davison, 206) Therefore Bill is passed in both house and Senate to later be introduced in the floor to be passed. An example that we see in Model Senate is how each Senator in the committee picked a very important

However even though Pennsylvania is state with "36.9%” as moderate" (Politicspa); they voted for Casey as he is an active worker who fight for the right of people as he has going further into what the state needs which an example is the Bill of agriculture in how he fought to make a better system for the farmers in Pennsylvania. At Model Senate Casey of course as a Pro-life is always in favor when it comes to the Democrats Bills and will basically vote no for the republican bills as they "don’t think" of the people who is need. At the committees especially in H.E.L.P the impact of the Democrats when it comes to decision-making was very strong in terms of "shaping" and coming to a "balance" so a bill could pass. As the book states "All members of Congress have the ability to shape public policy, although some members are far more influential than others."(Davison, 247) With this that is a including an "amendment" or reviewing the "wording" of a Bill. An example is how in the in the H.E.L.P committee the Democrats wanted to pass the bill of Health Care which was about an economic health care that citizens could choose and were able to afford. This Health Care is basically trying to give a service for the people who cannot afford a private insurance as they might go way high of their income. however Republicans