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Play LawCraft: Goal experience the amendment process and the frustration of party politics. 

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Play LawCraft: Goal experience the amendment process and the frustration of party politics. 

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https://www.icivics.org/games/lawcraft
To show me you played screen shot your passed bills and insert them in the corresponding column.

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Address the debate: Should congressional earmaks be banned from the legislative process?

Hit the plus sign bellow "more pork" or "I'm going vegan" to contribute your comments in the appropriate column. Keep it under 7 sentences and incorporate one of the authors points into your argument.

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Pork has the benefit of allowing bipartisan support for bills through trading votes for pork. It also can be a tool to solve issues with spending

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Pork has the benefit of allowing bipartisan support for bills through trading votes for pork. It also can be a tool to solve issues with spending

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on programs that will help the communities of congressmen. The defense contracts, for example, help legislators to get reelected and can provide a stable legislature over long periods of time, allowing politicians to build experience and work toward their goals.

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Pork is a good way to incorporate society into government more. The people have an incentive to pay more attention to politics since their representative will bring funds back home such as for bridges, roads, etc if they support their ideas. Porking also connects the local government to the national government by giving national money to local communities that need it for projects in order to please their district. If there’s a member of Congress that is up for re election and isworthy of it, porking can supply them with an incumbency advantage as well. Finally, with projects coming into local communities, this creates more job opportunities for the public to fulfill these tasks!

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Goldberg^^^^^^ that was mine I forgot to put my name on it

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Goldberg^^^^^^ that was mine I forgot to put my name on it

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Pork is good because it contains the benefit for districts for congress. The  idea of  reward for   teamwork encourages cooperation and social interference between the people.
The public will be more involved as it gives  money  to locals to which can so work on projects and issues each state is facing  and  working on. The ideas and projects from the states need workers ,as they idealistically supply more jobs to create a work force. What benefits the states ,benefits the people living there, that  motivates themselves and incentivizes teamwork.
Ultimately the people seek only benefits from the idea of  PORK.

Nathaniel Nguyen

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Bao

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Pork is essentially the allocation of federal funds to projects or incentives with the aim of targeting a congressman.
While pork barrel maybe seen as a form of bribe or corruption, it can help local communities extensively. The extra funding can be used to pave way for better infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, ultimately creating new job opportunities. It could also personally provide financial assistance to those in need, wether it's a poor farmer or a student on financial aid.
In other words, it helps support a local population and economy by stimulating it with more money via pork barrel.

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I believe that congressional earmarks should definitely be banned from congress. They take away funds  from what is more important. For example,  the government took away millions of dollars that were supposed to go to rebuilding damage coming from hurricane Katrina. We are supposed to support the nation as a whole which is the main purpose of congress. They should not be a way politicians use taxpayer's money to campaign for their home states and make constituents happy by putting money aside to do small projects in their area.

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Pork, or earmark, is devasting to the democracy of America. As James Miller says, " it's outragous that you've got to have such political payoffs to get Congress to do the nation's business"; the projects in pork are supposed be executed by the congressmen because they are beneficial to the communities that they represent. Making these projects "political payoffs" can hold up their processes and decrease the government's efficiency. Furthermore, pork is a form of corruption and patronage, which is what we try to prevent in today's political system. It causes shady relationships to build among those who govern and prevent those who are more capable and diligent from better serving the people. Therefore, to enable  the govenment to run faster, we need to cut off the fat and stop consuming pork.

Yibo Bao

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Blake Li

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I think more pork is the way to support you and the sates, because the important things is to offer the things that public like what the public interested in, that could help you get more supporter to vote you and that ring the benefits to the people and states. Also there will be the negative side of the impact like the unnecessary cause, what i think is that your purpose is to get vote and support the nation.

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political pork has both pros and cons because it can promote bipartisan bill while at the meantime it can also deteriorate the political environment in the form of bribery. People should beware of the fact that political pork has benefits for the congress which people often tend to ignore. it can promote bipartisan solution to a problem. People from republican and democratic party tend to see things from aslightly different perspective. Therefore, combining both perspective can offer a good solution to a problem.

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Political porks have both postive and negative impacts on the United State government systems, it has pro that break down the different party lines which provide a better communication enviroment. It also benifits the congress bringing public attention. People from both republican and democratic parties so that there are no obstacles for communicating from different point of views of people, combine these multiple perspectives i believe it will bring more postive influence to the US Government and public.

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Pork is the most effective way for politics to process the work. Pork financially benefits both politics and society, so people can participate more actively with pork. Pork can support the policy if needed, and it both benefits republican and democrats, so more porks should be added

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Pork is essentially leverage. Pork is used by politicians to show their people, their voter base that they are actually getting things accomplished in Washington. It gets grubby politicians re-elected. That is where the leverage comes in; politicians that want to get larger, more significant legislation passed must get a majority on board. If your party does not have 60 senate seats, the you basically need to give the opposition party "pork" or incentives to get them on board. Otherwise, the opposition party has no incentive to support legislation from the opposition party, and no bills would pass.

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Porking has set a dangerous precedent in the U.S. It is now considered normal for politicians to have to be bribed with personal favors and pork in the form of new infrastructure or funds to make their constituents happy, these bribes are just in order to get politicians to vote on a bill that may be best for the country anyway. Essentially porking has let the politicians hold the general welfare of our country hostage, in many cases they are not voting for a bill based on how much they agree with it, they are voting for the bill because something is in it for them.

Liam Garry

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Pork, a form of bribery, can be used in office as a way to demonstrate productivity to voters and to also gain leverage. Depending on how you see it, it can be viewed as a good or bad thing. Looking at pork from a political perspective, it is just another way of using strategy in office to accomplish the goals or needs of the American people. Pork spending should be kept the same, not limited. If needed, the deficit should limit pork spending a little. Overall, pork is being used to gain incentives from both political parties, smooth out the difficulty of legislating everything, create jobs, and meet the local and national needs of the American people.

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Pork is one of the most important tool in legislature, because when you give or get pork everybody wins. Whether it the legislators who are finding a beneficial way to get their laws passed, or the public who benefit as a result of the deal. Pork helps the American people thrive either indirectly, by allowing helpful legislation to be passed, and directly by contributing to local economies with the financial benefits.

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Wildman

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Wildman

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Pork has helped with several governmental efforts such as repair and funding. The major problem with pork is that it isn't democratic. The entire idea of America's economy is free market, and large government involvement defeats the purpose. American taxpayers fund most of the governmets projects, so the fact that the government needs to pay private business to work under them is irrational.

Ryan McWhorter