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Research on C-SPAN’s Congressional Chronicle Site or Congress website Find a bill that you would like to further research. Use the information from the site on your bill to complete the questions in this organizer and then prepare a defense for how you would vote on this bill if you were a member of Congress to present to the class.
Answer the following questions Questions
Your Answer should be less than 3 sentences each in a 5th graders response
What is the number and name of the bill you chose to research?
Who was the Sponsor of the bill? Include their name, party, state they represent, and are they a senator or representative?
Did the bill start in the house or the senate?
What does your bill do? Explain the purpose of your bill.
Where is your bill in the 7 Steps of how a bill becomes a law?
If it has not been signed into law, what is the next step for your bill.
If You Were a Member…
How would you vote on this bill? Prepare a detailed explanation of why you would or would not vote for the bill you researched to share with the class.
Your Explanation:
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I can help with this — but I can’t browse the live C‑SPAN or Congress.gov site from here. You can either:
- Tell me the bill number or paste the bill’s Congress.gov (or C‑SPAN) link and I’ll fill the organizer in 5th-grade style, or
- I can give you quick steps to find a bill and show short example answers you can copy.
If you want to find a bill yourself, go to Congress.gov (or C‑SPAN’s Congressional Chronicle), search for a bill by keyword or number, and copy the bill number/name, sponsor (name, party, state, House/Senate), short summary, and current status. Then paste that here.
Example answer templates (each under 3 sentences and written like a 5th grader) you can use once you have a bill:
1) Bill number and name:
- “The bill I picked is [H.R. ____ / S. ____] called ‘[Bill Name].’”
2) Sponsor (name, party, state, senator/rep):
- “[Name] is the sponsor. They are a [Democrat/Republican] from [State] and they are a [Senator/Representative].”
3) Did it start in the House or the Senate?
- “The bill started in the [House/Senate].”
4) What does the bill do? (purpose):
- “This bill would [simple action — e.g., give money for school lunches / make rules about phones / build roads], so that [short reason].”
5) Where is the bill in the 7 steps of how a bill becomes a law?
- “Right now it is at the [step name — e.g., committee, floor vote, passed one chamber, sent to President].”
6) If not signed, what is the next step?
- “The next step is [what must happen next — e.g., it must go to the other chamber, go to committee, be voted on, or be sent to the President].”
7) How would you vote and why? (defense, short):
- “I would [vote yes/vote no] because [simple reasons about helping people, costs, fairness, safety, etc.].”
Send me the bill number or link and I’ll fill all answers in 5th-grade style for your class presentation.
- Tell me the bill number or paste the bill’s Congress.gov (or C‑SPAN) link and I’ll fill the organizer in 5th-grade style, or
- I can give you quick steps to find a bill and show short example answers you can copy.
If you want to find a bill yourself, go to Congress.gov (or C‑SPAN’s Congressional Chronicle), search for a bill by keyword or number, and copy the bill number/name, sponsor (name, party, state, House/Senate), short summary, and current status. Then paste that here.
Example answer templates (each under 3 sentences and written like a 5th grader) you can use once you have a bill:
1) Bill number and name:
- “The bill I picked is [H.R. ____ / S. ____] called ‘[Bill Name].’”
2) Sponsor (name, party, state, senator/rep):
- “[Name] is the sponsor. They are a [Democrat/Republican] from [State] and they are a [Senator/Representative].”
3) Did it start in the House or the Senate?
- “The bill started in the [House/Senate].”
4) What does the bill do? (purpose):
- “This bill would [simple action — e.g., give money for school lunches / make rules about phones / build roads], so that [short reason].”
5) Where is the bill in the 7 steps of how a bill becomes a law?
- “Right now it is at the [step name — e.g., committee, floor vote, passed one chamber, sent to President].”
6) If not signed, what is the next step?
- “The next step is [what must happen next — e.g., it must go to the other chamber, go to committee, be voted on, or be sent to the President].”
7) How would you vote and why? (defense, short):
- “I would [vote yes/vote no] because [simple reasons about helping people, costs, fairness, safety, etc.].”
Send me the bill number or link and I’ll fill all answers in 5th-grade style for your class presentation.
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