Blog Number 3

I am reading this site as I am blogging so all of my reactions are actually occurring as I read. As i first glance over the site i have no idea what is going on. There are a ton of references to different acts, some of which i am familiar with and some that i am not. there are also a large number of abbreviations. Overall it seems to look like when i was on my schools student senate and the secretary took notes of what happened during the day, and the agenda of what the meeting was to look like. Also reading through all of the bills that were to be addressed and other thoughts of the members there are a lot of phrases, and dialogue that i don't understand (goes right over my head!).

Once getting past everything that i don't understand i find it funny that there are time restrictions on certain things. when it states that the first 30 minutes will be dedicated to this party, and the second 30 minutes to this party, and the final hour split between the two parties, but no one can speak for more than 10 minutes i though that was very specific. i understand that it needs to be otherwise I'm sure the arguing could last forever, but i didn't think that 435 highly educated people would have to be given such restrictions!

I am also surprised in the fact that the dialogue is so informal. For example, "I'm gonna have to cheat a little bit on the committee hearings schedule today, because I've got to get to bed earlier than usual and get up early tomorrow." http://www.congressmatters.com/storyonly/2009/5/26/1030/-Today-in-Congress. This is interesting because it makes it easily read by say me, but its surprising because i expected it to be much more hard to follow i suppose. Its also amazin how many things that they are expected to get through in one day... i counted and they have what i interpreted as an agenda with 26 things to get through.

Then when comparing the House to the Senate it seems like senate is much more consise and the house is a lot more broad. the senate seemed to get strait to the point and have things on a strict schedule. this however doesnt surprise me at all for the pure fact that its easier to manuver around 100 people than it is around 435 people. The items that they have addressed is similar to one another, but the senate just seems a little bit more organized than the house.