Congressional Panel Directions, writing homework help

Congressional Panel Directions

-Find a list of the congressional committees

• Google committees in congress.
• State they represent
• House (district they represent or senate)
• Party they belong to
• The committee they chair or they position within
• Education and a little background
• Answer this: Do you think this representative is qualified?

-Find 5 Committees that in theory would contain members with the appropriated awareness about “ Act to Change the Dietary Guidelines( here are 5 committees that you should use):

1-Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

2- Secretary of Education

3- Department of Health and Human Service

4- Secretaries Health and Human Services

5- Secretaries of Commerce

– Write a short description on the committee’s responsibilities and how it’s related to the correlation Between BPA and obesity.

-Choose 1 congressmen or women that sits each of your committee that have specialized knowledge relevant to the proposed bill ( I will send to you the Bill proposed)

-Make a list of your elected panel that include this to each one of them :

-Write a paragraph that will answer the following questions:

• -Why is it important for policy makers to be knowledgeable about topics that relate to the committee they belong to?
• -Do you think these people always have the best qualifications for the committee they are appointed?
• -Do you think politicians can have limited background on a topic yet make relatively informed decisions? How do you think they do that?
• -Do you think there are an adequate number of representatives with backgrounds in health care in federal office?
• -Do you believe politicians have the best interest of the people they represent at heart?
• -What would be the advantage to having more professionally diverse representation?

— How do you think that influences policy and the American people?

I uploaded an example of committee, but remember I need 5