{"id":5643,"date":"2015-04-25T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2015-04-04T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T17:26:49","slug":"congressional-leadership-crash-course-government-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Leadership: Crash Course Government and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We\u2019ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leaders as well as the majority and minority whips in both the Senate and the House. As the leadership heavily influences assignments to committees and acts as the primary point of contact with the media, they wield significant power in influencing the public dialog.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L8urcMLGFyU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support is provided by Voqal:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.voqal.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voqal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.voqal.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YouTubeCrashCourse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YouTubeCrashCourse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YouTubeCrashC&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TheCrashCourse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TheCrashCourse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TheCrashCourse<\/a><br \/>\nTumblr &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/thecrashcourse.tumblr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/thecrashcourse.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/thecrashcourse.tumblr.com<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nInstagram &#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thecrashcourse\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thecrashcourse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/thecrashcourse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Craig Benzine explores the leadership structure of congress. We\u2019ll break out the clone machine to examine the responsibilities of the speaker of the house, the majority and minority leaders as well as the majority and minority whips in both the Senate and the House. As the leadership heavily influences assignments to committees and acts as the primary point of contact with the media, they wield significant power in influencing the public dialog.\u00a0 Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:\u00a0http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios Support is provided by Voqal:\u00a0http:\/\/www.voqal.org Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? 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