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huckfinn

Hallo,

Ik heb elders op een forum een aantal vragen gesteld over de Am. politiek. Dit in verband met een onderzoek naar het optreden van Amerika tegen het ICC.
Er wordt op het andere forum niet gereageerd, vandaar dat ik het hier probeer:

ALvast bedankt voor het antwoorden!

Howdy,

Im a student from the Netherlands and beloved reader of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Anyway, I have to do this research on the American Service Members Protection Act which is - pathetically - called the Hague invasion Act over here.

The questions might be very basic and children in elementary school might know them already, but I'm not familiar with American politics and it's very hard to get to know more about the American political climate in general and the way of going in the S. and H. of R. in particular then just the superficial knowledge of the 3 seperated powers and how the founding fathers came up with the senate as an alternative.

My questions are these:

* What is the political climate in the senate and House of R. ? Are there - for example - people in it who want America to go in in isolation again ? and therefore rebel againt this ICC ? Is there a clique that has powers to dictate the way of politics?
* Are the people in the S. and H.R. really the representitives of the people or are they the wealthier lads that can afford campains, flight tickets and time and have connections etc.. ?
* Can a president (or executive power) and people in the S. or H.R. have a 'private-chat' relationship and does that effect foreign politics ?

Hopefully one can answer this question!
My thanks are greater than the sins of the pope

Maarten, unfortunately from the Netherlands
#1 - 03-10-2004, 19:50 uur

xerxesc

Hallo,

Ik heb elders op een forum een aantal vragen gesteld over de Am. politiek. Dit in verband met een onderzoek naar het optreden van Amerika tegen het ICC.
Er wordt op het andere forum niet gereageerd, vandaar dat ik het hier probeer:

ALvast bedankt voor het antwoorden!

Howdy,

Im a student from the Netherlands and beloved reader of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Anyway, I have to do this research on the American Service Members Protection Act which is - pathetically - called the Hague invasion Act over here.

The questions might be very basic and children in elementary school might know them already, but I'm not familiar with American politics and it's very hard to get to know more about the American political climate in general and the way of going in the S. and H. of R. in particular then just the superficial knowledge of the 3 seperated powers and how the founding fathers came up with the senate as an alternative.

My questions are these:

* What is the political climate in the senate and House of R. ? Are there - for example - people in it who want America to go in in isolation again ? and therefore rebel againt this ICC ? Is there a clique that has powers to dictate the way of politics?
* Are the people in the S. and H.R. really the representitives of the people or are they the wealthier lads that can afford campains, flight tickets and time and have connections etc.. ?
* Can a president (or executive power) and people in the S. or H.R. have a 'private-chat' relationship and does that effect foreign politics ?

Hopefully one can answer this question!
My thanks are greater than the sins of the pope

Maarten, unfortunately from the Netherlands


1) The political climate in the Senate is pretty bitter right now (what's new????)  The republicans have a sligh majority in which they most of the times fail to pass any in their respective views pieces of legislation (bills) that they would like to see pass (you need 67 votes to pass a bill in the senate and the president's signature for it to become law); The democrats have the same problem, but they are a minority right now, the power they have is to obstruct any judges the president appoints to either U.S. district courts or probably later in the next term if Pres. Bush wins the General Election the judges that he'll appoint for the U.S. Supreme Court.  I believe there are senators in the Senate that would want an Isolationist position regarding the U.S. in the world, it really depends, because Isolationist could mean, we stay out of all wars or we unilaterally take care of our business without the U.N. or N.A.T.O.  I believe that the majority of senators (democrate and republicans) are against an International Court deciding fates of U.S. Citizens, Politicians, "War Criminals", etc.  The U.S. in this regard is definitely sovereign, and you probably will never see a change in this attitude (thank God, in my opinion).  I don't believe there is a definite clique in regards to the decision of not joining the International Court in the Hague; I believe there might be a real small minority of Senators and House Representatives (for both parties) that would agree with joining, the majority is against it...

2) this is a rather normative question that you would get varied answers on instead of factual answers.  The Senators and House of Representatives are directly chosen by the People, for instance this coming election on November 2nd I will vote for my U.S. Senator Boxer (incumbent Senator for the Great State of California) and my House of representative Waxman (district 30 (Hollywood, West Hollywood, etc), because that is the district I live in, in the Great state of California), the majority of senators are wealthy, help finance their campaigns but get a lot of money from contributors like myself, whether they will actually represent me is always the question, and thank god, I can help vote them out if we're not happy (U.S. Senators have 6-year terms (2 senators each state for the U.S. senate and House Representatives have 2-year terms, there are no term-limits for both of these positions!).  There are examples of less wealthy people becoming house of representative members or senators, in the case of senators this is rather rare, in the case of House of representatives not, because you run your campaign in your district!!!!)

Yes, the president, senators and house of representatives members are aloud to have private conversations in all manners about any subject, but if it would affect foreign policy, this would have to be made clear to congress, a bill would be created which the people can read, interpret and form opinions on, congress votes and president can take action regarding foreign policy.  All information eventually falls under the Freedom of Information Act, and foreign policy has to always be clear for congress, thereby it becomes clear to the people, the way this info becomes clear is through bills, which you can read on http://thomas.loc.gov/; this way you can look bills up by HR or Senate representatives, their status, etc.

The people can contact their senators and representatives by phone, e-mail, letters, etc and let them know how they want their representatives (both senate and house) to vote.  Sometimes it coincides with the peoples will, sometimes it does not because senators do have a leadership role as a representative in the senate and can go against the people's vote, this might be a reason why a senator or representative would be voted out of congress in a general election.

of course in practice, it's a much more complicated process, but hopefully I answered your questions.  If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask

mazzeltov,


Xerxes :)
#2 - 03-10-2004, 22:57 uur

huckfinn

Thanks a lot for the reply (and all the way from California too!)

Your answers were clear enough for me!
Maybe you can help me out with this question too: Do you remember how the ASPA (servicemember protection act) of 2002 was received by the American people and what kind of significance do the government and the press give to this act?

And what is the general opinion of the US people and gov. about Europe and the ICC if there is a 'general' opinion at all...

Thanks again!
Maarten





#3 - 03-10-2004, 23:34 uur

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