In the Model Senate Project in Humanities, we created a senate in the senior class in which we as students role-played as specific senators and proposed a bill that passed onto the senate floor. We worked on three different bills in three committees, which were committees for immigration, climate change, and college debt. Each student/senator paired up and created a proposed legislation for their committee, out of which one was chosen for debate on the senate floor. On the senate floor, each committee followed parliamentary procedure and completed engaged caucuses, debated within parties, and proposed amendments to the bill that were then voted on to pass or not pass. After that the bill as a whole was voted on and either passed or failed. During this project, I was Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and I worked in the Judiciary Committee (immigration). In this committee, I co-authored a bill with fellow Senator Ted Cruz called the Visa Reform and Enforcement Bill. Our bill dealt with making visas more attainable and enforce people from overstaying them. Our bill was chosen and brought to the senate floor where we made multiple amendments to it, three of which were Republican and one that was Democrat. The bill was mostly bipartisan and supported by both sides, although surprisingly the Democrats offered the most support to it as opposed to many Republicans who could not support it because of their personal positions on the matter. Although the bill passed through the senate with a majority vote, the President vetoed the bill and it did not pass into legislation. Although I'm a little bummed that the proposed legislation did not pass, our senate truly modeled what would occur in real senate. There was a great amount of unexpected, passionate debate, argument, and impromptu speeches that made the experience interesting, engaging, and an exhibition to remember. Furthermore, the President enacted her power as the executive branch and showed perfectly the checks and balances within our government.