The old joke

If pros and cons are opposite, what is the opposite of Congress?

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diff --git a/PROGRESS b/PROGRESS
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--- a/PROGRESS
+++ b/PROGRESS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+- Write up INTA study guide
+    - Take other people's study guides
+    - Take my study guide
+    - Take INTA test
+- US Chapters 3 and 4, plus study-notes and questions on 1-4
+- Math Chap 2 + HW2
 + America and The Great War lecture
 + The Reactionary twenties lecture
 + Aug 31 lecture (INTA)
@@ -6,9 +12,8 @@
 + Sep 9 lecture (INTA)
 + Sep 11 lecture (INTA)
 + Sep 14 lecture (INTA)
-- Sep 16 lecture (INTA)
++ Sep 16 lecture (INTA)
 + Sign of Four + Other portrayal of Sherlock
-- Math Chap 2 + HW2
 + HIST readings (3 posted in the Canvas post)
 + Reading Journal: Compare Sherlock in Sign of Four with others' depict
 - Revision Activity
@@ -17,7 +22,6 @@
 + The Island of Dr Moreau 1-10
     - And lecture
 - Reading Journal 3 (refer to announcement)
-- (Optional) Breakout group
 - "The Surgical Theater: Black Bodies in the Antebellum Clinic"
 + INTA quiz
 + History chapter 2 and quiz
diff --git a/rich/15_congress b/rich/15_congress
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--- a/rich/15_congress
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         - Despite the quantity of these, things fall through the cracks
             - Ex: FEMA officer during Katrina lied on his resume.
         - There is a lot of legislation and officials.
+        - These leaders are super important because quality trickles dwn
+5) Public education
+    - Agenda setting: what Congress cares about/addresses/investigates
+    - Town halls are often representative -> constituent info
+        - Email campaign
+        - CSPAN
+    - American public not actually very receptive to education
+6) "Conflict Resolution and Accommodation"
+    - Discussion, debate, hearings, compromise
+
+Congressional Elections and Voting
+- Factors influencing outcomes
+    - Advertising is huge
+    - Electoral design (future class)
+    - Presidential elections
+        - "Coattails" = popular president makes party more popular
+            - Evidenced by swinging elections towards pres. party
+            - "Short" or "long" coattails
+    - Money!
+        - Spend on increasing turnouts
+        - Spend on constituents
+        - VERY helpful but not sufficient
+    - Big incumbent advantage (3 reasons - Mayhew)
+        - Built-in offices and staff on the Hill
+        - Network connections for a campaign
+        - Committees and credit for working towards constituents
+            - Universal credit = corona/cancer research, ex
+            - Personal credit = stamp of approval on funds for district
+        - Parties support reelections (money, ads) for tenure
+        - Since 1968, >75% of incumbent senators are reelected and 90%
+          of incumbent Representatives are reelected.
+- Congressional Reapportionment
+    - Redistricting for House, like Census-based.
+    - Movement from North, NE southward and westward
+    - Governors help control reapportionment, help control election
+Permanent Reapportionment Act of 1929
+- Didn't want to favor "urbanized" areas
+    - Republicans in 1920 against "overrepresentation" of areas like
+      Detroit
+- Limits House to 435 (zero sum representation)
+    - Encourages gerrymandering, district design
+    - Restrict debate a bit, changed power-grab dynamics