Model Congress

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1 Summary
2 Preparation
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Summary

Model Congress gives students a chance to engage in a role-playing simulation of the United States Congress. Such events are hosted by the Congress itself^[1], Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. Model Congress is a normally high-school club that consists of a bicameral legislature, as is the Congress. Members can be on any of the Senate or House committees, or, in larger model congresses, these, as well as a Supreme Court simulation, a press crew that reports on the Congress, or the Executive Committee, which is the Cabinet and the President.

[edit] Preparation

Once a school picks its delegates, they each must pick a committee and then write a bill apropos to that committee's jurisdiction; for example, a member of the House Science and Technology Committee might write a bill on nuclear reprocessing. However, a member of the Energy Committee would be able to write on this topic as well. There is, as in Congress, overlapping. The bill must be sent in usually a month beforehand, in order that it may be printed and included in the "docket," which is the master agenda for the committee, and includes an ID badge, the schedule, the bills, lists of members of every committee, and background information on the Model Congress. It is given out when Awards are available for outstanding delegates.