Committee Topics and Briefings

The following list contains the topics and briefings for each of the committees in which students may participate at HMCE 2009. Please note that we are in the process of editing our briefings and preparing them for web publication; if there's no link to a briefing you'd like to see, please check back in a few days.

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Domestic Programs
House I	Senate I
Gasoline Prices	Human Trafficking
Housing Crisis	Net Neutrality
House II	Senate II
College Funding	US-Iran Relations
US-EU Relations	Hate Crimes
District Court	National Security Council
Booker v. Goose	Chinese-African Relations
State of California v. Sulky	Homeland Security
Rebel v. Edwards et al.	Nuclear Proliferation
Supreme Court
Byron v. United States
California v. Wells
Sandberg v. City of Burlington
Schwartz v. United States
International Programs
Group of Eight	World Bank
Energy and Trade Policy	Gender Inequality and Poverty
Foreign Aid to the Developing World	Poverty and Agriculture
Group of Fifteen	World Trade Organization
Developing Nations and Climate Change	Intellectual Property Rights
Food Insecurity in the Developing World	Trade and the Environment
World Health Organization	UN Security Council
Genetically Modified Organisms	Crisis in Darfur
Neglected Diseases	Modern Maritime Piracy
Non-Governmental Organizations
Amnesty International
Greenpeace International
Oxfam International
The Red Cross