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\nWhat are the branches of state governments?
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\nThe purpose of this web quest is to become more familiar with the legislative and executive branches of state governments by focusing on the details of certain states.
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\nFind your full zip
\nhttp:\/\/zip4.usps.com\/zip4\/welcome.jsp<\/a>
\n19054-3605
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\nFind Your State Rep
\nhttp:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/find.cfm<\/a>
\nHouse District Representative
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\n140 John T. Galloway
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\nWhat committees is your rep on?
\nAppropriations Committee
\nCommerce Committee
\nHouse Majority Policy Committee
\nLabor Relations Committee
\nState Government Committee
\nPick one committee and identify what its purpose is. Appropriation Committee
\n\u2022 Develop an annual General Fund Budget
\n\u2022 Prepare and monitor budget- and tax-related legislation
\n\u2022 Review the fiscal impact of all legislation; prepare fiscal notes
\n\u2022 Examine state budget proposals, line by line
\n\u2022 Review and make recommendations on key fiscal issues
\n\u2022 Identify alternative sources of revenue
\nKnowing what you do about your area, why do you think your rep chose this committee to be on? Bucks County area is consisted with a mixture of residential and commercial occupancies. The local government\u2019s revenue heavily relies on the taxes paid by the local businesses.
\nBeing on the Appropriation Committee, it would help to balance the needs of the local residences that are mostly blue color working class and the local businesses.
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\nFind Your State Senator
\nhttp:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/find.cfm<\/a>
\nSenate District Senator
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\n10 Charles T. McIlhinney
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\nWhat committees is your Senator on?
\nLabor & Industry
\nLaw & Justice
\nRules & Executive Nominations
\nTransportation
\nGame & Fisheries , Vice Chair
\nState Government , Chair
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\nPick one committee and identify what its purpose is. Law & Justice
\nInformation not provided.
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\nKnowing what you do about your area, why do you think your Senator chose this committee to be on? Bucks county is probably one of the safest areas in the national where you don\u2019t even have to lock your car at night. Once a while the neighborhood children might do some funky things in your mail boxes, but that is about it. There has been one murder case in the past 20 years, and the accusers were, of course not from the Bucks county area.
\nCould that be the contribution of our Senator being on the committee of Law & Justice?
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\nPick an issue and email your senator or state rep. Copy the message here.
\nDear Senator:
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\nI personally find that public records are difficult to obtain in Bucks county, such as copy of the deed, zoning map, marriage certificate etc. Can we do a better job on that? Most counties in PA have electronic systems that are easy to use.
\nFacing great difficulty in getting public records, your residents are wasting years of their lives getting agitated.
\nThank you very much for your consideration.
\nSincerely,
\nRebecca Young
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\nPick a state out of the hat. What state did you get?
\nMississippi
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\nYour State
\nWho is the governor?
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\n Haley Barbour
\nAccording to your book, what is an executive order? Page 244.
\nExecutive order is \u201cA directive issued by a chief executive to administrative agencies.\u201d
\nExecutive orders are often issued to deal with public emergencies or disasters, or political messes that require the suspension or removal of a public official.\u201d
\nFind an executive order your governor issued.
\n EXECUTIVE ORDER
\nNO. 932.
\nDESIGNATION OF THE NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS)
\nWhat is the topic and what have you found that it is it in reaction to?
\n Establishment of the National Incident Management System.
\nAccording to your book, what is a State Cabinet.
\n State Cabinet, \u201ccomposed of the heads of the major executive departments, advise the governors in most of the state.\u201d
\nList some members of your governor\u2019s cabinet.
\nAmanda Jones Counsel to the Governor
\nAndrew Ketchings Legislative Affairs
\nAshley Edwards Deputy Director of the Office of Recovery and Renewal
\nBeth Bryant Executive Assistant to the First Lady and Deputy Director of Boards and Commissions
\nBuddy Bynum Director of Communications
\nCandice Whitfield Policy Advisor
\nCharles Pittman Constituent Services and Special Projects
\nColby Lane Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel
\nC. Daryl Neely Policy Advisor
\nDan Turner Press Secretary
\nDarlene Ratliff Executive Assistant to Policy Advisors
\nDebbie Carney Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel and Legislative Aide
\nDorothy Kuykendall Executive Assistant to the Governor
\nEt al.
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\nBudgeting
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\nOutline the process, as presented in your book, of state budgeting.
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\nCheck to see if your state had any recent budgeting controversies. If not, use PA as your case study.
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\nWhat item or items was the controversy over?
\n \u201cMississippi: Senate diverts $1M from prison budget. The Senate passed a bill, SB 2746, which moves $1 million from the corrections budget to pay sheriffs for more than 1,200 state prisoners in local jails.\u201d
\nhttp:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/accounting\/budget\/914661-1.html<\/a>
\nWas the budget passed? When? Yes. In 2002.
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\nPowers of the Governor
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\nAccording to your book, what are the legislative powers of governors? Page 245
\nThe legislative powers of governors include \u201cinitiating major statewide legislative programs,\u201d and \u201cagenda setting.\u201d
\nFind a law that your governor vetoed and the justification of the veto. Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour vetoed House Bill 803. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 11-27-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT USE OF THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN EXCEPT FOR A PUBLIC USE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
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\nHe issued his statement on his veto of House Bill 803 on March 24, 2009, which stating the flaws of the law and reasons why enabling the law would do harm and damage.
\nhttp:\/\/www.governorbarbour.com\/news\/2009\/<\/a>
\nmar\/Eminentdomainveto.htm
\nWhere does the power of governorship of PA rank in relation to other states? PA ranking by percent-31
\nhttp:\/\/www.stateline.org\/live\/ViewPage.action<\/a>?
\nsiteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15158
\nWhere does your governor rank?
\n Mississippi ranking by percent- 46
\n http:\/\/www.stateline.org\/live\/ViewPage.action<\/a>?
\nsiteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15158
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\nConclusion:
\nClick on the link below:
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\nhttp:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=505&invol=833<\/a>
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\nWhat is the topic of this case?
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\nAbortion clinics and physician challenged, on due process grounds, the constitutionality of the 1988 and 1989 amendments to the Pennsylvania abortion statute.
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\nWhat is the ruling?
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\n\u201c (1) the doctrine of stare decisis requires reaffirmance of Roe v. Wade's essential holding recognizing a woman's right to choose an abortion before fetal viability; (2) the undue burden test, rather than the trimester framework, should be used in evaluating abortion restrictions before viability; (3) the medical emergency definition in the Pennsylvania statute was sufficiently broad that it did not impose an undue burden; (4) the informed consent requirements, the 24-hour waiting period, parental consent provision, and the reporting and recordkeeping requirements of the Pennsylvania statute did not impose an undue burden; and (5) the spousal notification provision imposed an undue burden and was invalid.\u201d
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\nFrom what you learned from your book and your web-quest, why do you think Bob Casey was named in the case?
\n505 U.S. 833
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\nRobert Casey was one of the defendants in the initial law suit file at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was then one of the appellants who brought the case to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before a Certiorari was granted, having the case heard in the Supreme Court.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}