The choice is yours. Make it as big or as small as you wish. Students pick individual roles. Students research questions asked of them on committee pages. Committees form a decision on the legislation being presented.
Committees present the information to a mock conference.
Discuss the outcome as well as the process. Based on the HyperStudio stack and the presentation of the group research findings. In order to print the following form you must have adobe acrobat reader 3.0. A discussion of the possible frustrations experienced at the conference when the complexity of the issue became clear. I find students are brutally honest when it comes to giving everyone their fair share of points on long projects such as this.