Senate Research

Your objective today is to research a current US Senator and find the following information:
Go to senate.gov for list of all current US Senators
1. What state? and party?
2. List 5 things you think are important to know about the Senator's biography.
3. How many terms has the Senator served?
4. On what committees does the Senator serve?
5. Go to Thomas.gov find one piece of legislation that the Senator sponsored or co-sponsored. Find one that makes sense to you and summarized into a few sentences what the bill does.
6. Describe what the current status is on the bill. ( did it pass, fail, in committee, etc..)
7. Go to the Senator's web site and find a current news story that is of interest to you. Summarize into a few sentences the Senator's position on a current issue.
Do all of this in a gmail word document .
8. Finally pick an issue that your Senator feels passionately about and write a 30 sec sound bite, to be delivered in class, writing as if you are that Senator. The sound bite should be written as if your senator is answering a question from a reporter, so give the question then give your 30 sec answer.