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Some questions your paper should address include:

Question 1. What are some basic background facts about your representative (e.g., What party does the representative belong to? How long has he or she been in office? Did he or she win the last race by a close margin or was it a landslide?) and his or her district (e.g., Is the district urban or rural? Relatively racially/ethnically diverse or homogenous? Rich or poor?, etc.)

Question 2. On which committees does your representative serve? What issues fall within these committees' jurisdictions? What sorts of issues does the representative introduce and cosponsor bills and resolutions about? Is there correspondence between committee assignments and the content of his/her activities? Do these assignments and activities seem to match up with issues of particular relevance to the constituency?

Question 3. Does the Congressperson's website describe his or her constituency service? What types of things does the member do for the district?

Question 4. How do these activities map on to the general strategies of advertising, position-taking, and credit-claiming?

Question 5. Based on the various standards discussed in class, is the member "responsive"?

Attachment:- House of Representatives.zip