For this journal assignment, go to senate.gov and house.gov and find your representatives. You have 2 in the US Congress from California and 1 in the House of Representatives (you need to type in your zip code, and you may need to type in your exact address). Tell me who they are and what party they are from. Also- what are their issues that they stand for? Do you like them or no? why?
The purpose of this assignment is for you to know who speaks for you in Congress. We have a Representative Democracy, as you read about last week. This means that our framers set up our system so that we the people are the authority, but we use our voices through representatives who speak for us. Could you imagine the next time we need to take a vote and well all fly to DC? Not practical now and it wasn’t then either. Imagine hitching up your horse for that long haul. Plus, when started this nation, most of the population was uneducated. Were we able to make decisions and weigh in on policies that affect our lives? Most of us can barely, if at all, keep up with policy now, and we have the internet!
500 words, APA format please.