2302+Online+Final+Spring+2010

Answer the following questions as fully as you can. I want you to refer to previous readings, as well as current event to answer these questions.

Email me your answers by midnight May 7, 2010.

1. Congress is now debating potential reforms to the financial sector. What reforms are they proposing? What groups are organizing for and against these changes? What tactics are they using? 2. Critics have called Republicans in Congress the "Party of No" for their efforts to stop actions from going forward in the legislature. What is the basis for their claim? Is this a fair characterization? What is the goal of this strategy and do you think it will be successful? 3. Now that Obama has been in office well over a year, commentators have attempted to describe his leadership style. Find a variety of these commentators and summarize the different comments made. Are there similar points each make? 4. Increasingly commentators have noticed conflict between Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts. Read up on this and comment on the nature of the dispute between these two men, and the two institutions they head. 5. As you know, John Paul Stevens is retiring. Read up on his retirement and detail what impact a potential Obama nominee might have on the behavior of the court. 6. And, comment on the organization of this class. What worked best? What didn't work at all? What changes woudl you recommend I make? What would you not like to see changed?