Analyze the political background of your congressional district for the last 25 years and your U.S. Representative.

Researching your Congressional Delegation will be accomplished in two steps.
1. Analyze the political background of your congressional district for the last 25 years and your U.S. Representative.
2. Analyze the political background of your state for the last 25 years and one of your U.S. Senators. You are investigating your United States Representative and Senator. Do not use members of your state legislature.
Your paper will address the following questions:
· What is the political history of your district and state for the past 25 years?
· How has your congressional district and state voted in presidential and congressional elections for the past 25 years?
· Does your district or state lean Republican or Democrat?
· Are the political parties relatively even, or does one party dominate the elections?
· Does your district and state have a long tradition of supporting one party, or has it been changing in recent years? Why?
· How did your representative and senator come to power? (Briefly describe their political backgrounds.)
· What are examples some legislation your representative and senator have sponsored or co-sponsored in the last four years? Did your legislators include this legislation in their platform when they ran for office? How does this legislation align with biblical principles? Explain use specific verses of scripture.
· How do the interest groups – ADA, ACLU, ACU, and CC (or FRC) – rate your representative and senator? (Note: If the Christian Coalition score is not available, you may substitute the Family Research Council score. Include the exact scores from each of these groups.)
· Based on these ratings, would you classify your representative and senator as conservative or liberal? Justify your answer.
· In your conclusion explain how your congressional delegation does, or does not, reflect your values.
In answering these questions, please note the following:
· Do not submit your paper in the form of a series of questions and answers. Organize this information into a standard research paper (paragraph form with level headings) utilizing the current APA format.
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