Research Paper Please find answers to the following and then present the data in an argued essay.

A) Collect the data: 1. Find out who your House member and Assembly person is. House: www.house.gov Use your zip+4. Assembly: http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/districts/assemblydistricts.html 2. Research your US House member: Go to thomas.loc.gov and in the middle, click on "Roll Call Votes." Click on the 110th Congress, second session, under the House. Look over the bills listedare these of national interest or local interest? Find two bills or acts that are of personal interest to you. Read the Title/Description to get basic information about the bills. For each bill, click on the blue link in the Roll column to see the vote. Did the bills pass or not pass? How did your House member vote? Find your House member and note how they voted. Why do you think they voted that way? Visit their website to see if you pick up any of their issue positions. 3. Research your CA Assembly member: Go to www.leginfo.ca.gov. Click on the blue Bill Information button on the bottom of the page. For the Session menu, please click and pull down to (2007-208)PRIOR. Underneath, please click to select Keywords. Type a word for something you are interested in. (I.E. education or school) The screen will give you a list of all bills presented to the Assembly and Senate about that topic and the name of a representative that sponsored the bill. Look at the listare these of national interest or local interest? Click on two that interest you and look around at the information on the pages that come up. For most bills, you will see three sections: Bill Text, Analyses, and Votes. To find info on the bill, click on Introduced, under the Bill Text section. To find out how your Assembly person voted, click on Assembly Floor, under Votes. (If Assembly floor is listed twice, go with the more recent vote.) Did the bill pass? How did your Assembly person vote? Why do you think s/he voted that way? 4. Analysis Paper: Now that you have your data and your Janiskee and Masugi book ready, answer the following in an essay: Who represents you better, your House member or your Assembly member, and why? In your essay, answer the following as a part of your argument: What is the difference between how your House member represents you at the national level and your California member represents you at the local level? Is one better than the other? Are there institutional differences between the California and US legislatures that make it more likely that one will represent you better? Are there differences in how the US and CA systems were founded, and might that affect whether or not one system is better at representing you? Grades will be given based upon how well you show your research, both from the websites above and the book, so CITE, CITE, CITE! Use footnotes or end of sentence parenthetical, but tell me where the info came from.