<p>I'm starting Model Congress this year and I wanted to know whats a good way to start off. Any tips or websites would be nice.</p>
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<p>Like Congressional Debate/Student Congress? National Forensics League?</p>
<p>^ I don’t really know what you mean… o.O</p>
<p>Like Model U.N. but Congress …</p>
<p>Well, I’m a part of a debate league within the National Forensics League, and one event is Student Congress. I am unfamiliar with the Model UN format.</p>
<p>Well, thanks for attempting to help. :]</p>
<p>Were you given any information or a website? If so, you can send it to me and see if we’re talking about the same thing.</p>
<p>I won best distinguished speaker at yeshivah league Model congress in Tri State area of NY, NJ, PA. I recommend you actually look up current laws in your committee (mine was banking, housing and urban affairs), and see if there is a need for a new or better law. the best Bills proposed are the most thought out and comprehensive ones,</p>
<p>here’s a copy of my bill, sorry have no better way to post other than copy and paste, (also it doesn’t show, but I did nice fancy formatting, private message me for your email address and I can send you other materials like a template)</p>
<p>Yeshiva League Model Congress 2010</p>
<p>Yoni Miller / Yeshivah of Flatbush </p>
<p>Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee</p>
<p>A BILL
To reform the way we make transactions, and encourage good business practices, by making it more favorable, particularly for small businesses and individuals to conduct trade.</p>
<p>Preamble (purpose of the bill):
Provide a government model, that will encourage private corporations to innovate the way they proceed transactions, speed up transactions and the legitimacy of contracts in order to encourage simplified standard for increased spending by both [small] businesses and consumers; Thus boosting the economy.
Be it enacted by the Model Congress, and soon in Congress…</p>
<p>SECTION 1. Transaction Reform and Innovation.</p>
<p>This Act may be cited as the The balances worth in an account will be worth whatever its digits display. </p>
<p>SEC. 2. A Dollar should and will from now on represent…a dollar.<br>
Transactions will be conducted in real time just like everything else in life, using real time technology such as I.B.A.N. Under status quo, E-Transactions take 2-3 days to process, and checks can take weeks if not months to process.,</p>
<p>(2) No longer, will people have to waste time, money and effort on misleading balances in their banks, or spend money to pay for what is not their fault. </p>
<p>Accountability is key here, because part of what led to this economic crisis was lack of transparency and or accurate bank balances. Both corporations and individuals will be held accountable for their purchase and investments, since the picture will be more accurate than it was under status quo. </p>
<pre><code> SEC. 3. Banks and other loaners cannot base their profit off unfair practices.
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<p>(1) Despite the fact that every industrialized nation offers modernized forms of transactions for free, we in America still let Monopolies like MasterCard, Visa, American Express and numerous others charge us way above what is acceptable in a functioning market. </p>
<p>(2) Under status quo, banks make blatant profits for everything, from the very act of making a transaction, to service fees, to checking how much balance a person and even to bounced checks that were formerly cleared by the bank and or loaner. </p>
<p>(3) In addition to the provisions made in the Credit Card Act, enacted last February 22nd; Banks and other loaning corporations will be banned from instilling fines, as under the new system they will simply block a transaction if it does not clear.</p>
<p>SEC. 4. Clearing the road for trade and business </p>
<p>(1) By protecting the consumers and small businesses in particular pay up their debts and conduct trade more frequently, because all data will be accurate and conducted in real time. </p>
<p>(2) International trade that is impossible now, will be possible and quite profitable in the future, under this bill.</p>
<p>SEC. 5. The timetable will be enacted in real time as well…
(1) In 1 year from now, this bill will be hereby enacted in its plain format or approved amendments; The government will do this for non profit, but overall it will boost the consumerist society that america is, with paved methods to consume and sell both in and out of America. </p>
<p>Private Companies will be subjected to all regulations as prescribed in SECTION THREE.
Private Loaners are free and encouraged to come up with alternative solutions that comply with all existing laws and SECTION THREE. </p>
<p>(3) This bill in no way intends to punish large loaning entities or banks, but rather encourages profit through means of extended trade and transactions, and not fines or other pork fees, like it has under quo status.</p>