THIS PAPER MUST BE 6-8 PAGES IN MLA FORMAT

NO GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OR PLAGIARISM UNLESS YOU HAVE TO USE QUOTATION. PLEASE TRY TO WRITE EVERYTHING IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

YOUR JOB IS TO ANALYSIS THE TWO LAWS i’VE PICKED FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.

TWO Laws I’ve picked are

H.R.1238 – Securing our Agriculture and Food Act

H.R.2051 – Agriculture Reauthorizations Act of 2015

YOU NEED TO BE DETAILED, SPECIFIC , AND DESCRIPTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO THE LAWS. YOU NEED TO BE SPECIFIC WHEN IT COMES TO POLICY CHANGES( CONSEQUENCES)

Using legislative data from Congress.gov, begin by briefly describing the two laws that you have selected
and the most important policy changes that were implemented by each. To find bills that have been
referred to a specific committee, students should use the Congress.gov website—
https://www.congress.gov/advanced-search/legislation. The advanced search option allows users to search
for legislation using multiple criteria. To find all of bills that have been referred to a specific committee,
click on the appropriate House or Senate committee, leave the search box blank, and click search.

Apply the “stages of policymaking” framework used in our textbook to develop a cogent description and
analysis that surveys the differences and similarities in the enactment of these two laws. The stages of the
policymaking process are: 1) setting the agenda, 2) formulating policy, 3) adopting policy, and
4) implementing policy (Davidson et al. 2018, 401

With regard to setting the agenda, describe your understanding of how this issue emerged on the
congressional agenda. Were external events influential? Did the leadership of policy entrepreneurs help
move the policy reforms forward? Why did legislators decide to address this problem when they did?

With regard to formulating policy, read the committee reports for each bill and study how the measures
evolved during committee hearings, markup, and debate. What were the main goals of the bills? What
considerations did the committees in each chamber have when debating these policy changes? Were
certain dimensions of conflict evident or did a broad consensus exist? What role did partisanship play in
the process? Were other legislative alternatives seriously considered?

With regard to adopting policy, summarize how each piece of legislation made its way through both
chambers. This timeline should cover when the bills were introduced, the sponsor and co-sponsors, the
committees of referral, major committee actions, major floor actions and amendments, roll-call votes, and
any post-passage bargaining. Also, describe to what extent the president and congressional party leaders
were involved in the legislative process for each bill. Who were among each bill’s primary supporters and
opponents?

With regard to implementing policy, describe how you expect each law to be implemented. What
executive actors or institutions are involved? What specific steps would be taken in order to actually
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implement the policy change? Did Congress delegate discretionary implementation powers to executive
officials or do the laws direct specific executive actions in detail?

PART TWO OF THIS PAPER

The second part of the paper should provide a detailed comparison of legislative paths each bill followed.
In what ways were the progressions of the bills similar? Discuss obstacles that each bill encountered and
how the bills’ supporters were able to overcome them. Despite the fact that the bills focused on similar
sets of issues, there were likely some notable differences that existed in terms of how the two bills worked
their way through Congress. Identify some of these differences and make an argument that might explain
why these differing circumstances developed. Based on your assessment of these two laws, what general
conclusions can be drawn regarding how Congress has dealt with the policy you’ve selected?

FORMART!!

This assignment must be typed using one-inch margins in 12 point Times New Roman font.
Papers should be 6-8 double-spaced pages in length. Also, required is a works cited page that properly
cites all references and resources. The works cited page does not count toward the required page total for
this assignment. Students should include their name and student number at the top of page one. A cover
page is not required.

Papers should not be written in the first person. This means avoiding words such as I, me, my, and so on.
Your academic writing should also avoid using slang or contractions. Failing to adhere to the format
requirements, as well as grammar or spelling mistakes, will result in a lower grade. Please proofread and
revise your paper before turning it in.

Any time you quote, paraphrase, or reference
ideas, data, or other material from a resource, it needs to be cited at the point in the essay where it is
mentioned. Most often, this is done by using footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations. It is not
sufficient to simply have a works cited page at the end of the essay. More information on citation styles
can be found in a writing handbook such as the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers or at this
website: http://chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

In general, material from sites such as Wikipedia, blogs, and other websites not recognized as reputable
news sources should not be cited in your paper. It is usually fine to conduct research on the web to
provide background information for your analysis, but the material cited in your essay should consist of
credible resources.

Papers will be graded by the following criteria
Law descriptions (20 pts) Comparative analysis (15 pts) Works cited( 5 pts )Academic writing style 10( pts)