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Understanding Taxing, Spending & Influencing Congress for Voters

Learn about taxes, government spending, lobbyists influencing Congress, and how lawmakers help constituents. Discover the legislative process and the impact on voters.

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Understanding Taxing, Spending & Influencing Congress for Voters

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  1. Unit 8Chapter 7, Sections 2-4 Taxing, Spending, Influencing and Helping Voters

  2. I CAN: • Define taxes and determine how the legislative branch can collect taxes • Analyze the two-step process of how Congress can appropriate money • Explain what a lobbyist is and what they do • Understand how Congressmen use pork to get reelected.

  3. Sec. 2: Taxing and Spending • Taxes- money the people and businesses pay to support the government. • Important work on taxes occur by the House Ways and Means Committee or Senate Finance Committee • Closed rule- forbids members to offer any amendments to a bill from the floor

  4. Appropriating Money • Appropriation- approval of government spending • The House and Senate appropriation committee handle all bills (13 subcommittee • Authorization bill-sets up federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for that program ($30 million a year) • Appropriation bill- provides the money needed to carry out the many laws Congress has passed

  5. Uncontrollable Expenditures • Some expenditures are uncontrollable because the government is legally committed to spend the money • Entitlements- social programs that continue from year to year (Ex: Social Security)

  6. Sec. 3 Influencing Congress • Representatives of interest groups known as lobbyists, try to influence Congress by convincing members to support policies that favor their particular group, which is known as lobbying

  7. Sec. 4: Helping Constituents • Pass public works bills to help bring jobs/money/economy to their district (Ex: Roads, bridges, Hospitals) • Sometimes legislatures pass pork-barrel legislation-when Congressmen provide money that will benefit their district and not the country as a whole • When two or more lawmakers agree to support one another’s bills, it is called logrolling

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