Compose a transcript of your public policy speech.

• Select a specific example of public policy from one of the following fields:
  • Economic policy – for example, U.S. budget deficit spending.
  • Education policy – for example, the implementation of charter schools.
  • Environmental policy – for example, the Clean Air Act.
  • Foreign policy – for example, the interplay between civil liberties and the Patriot Act.
  • Healthcare policy – for example, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
  • Welfare policy – for example, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
• Select a department, administration, or agency within the Federal Bureaucracy that addresses your public policy concern.
  • Select the President’s proposed federal budget for the upcoming year from the Office of Management and Budget.
• Write a brief, persuasive speech advocating for increased funding for the federal department, administration, or agency due to its active involvement with your public policy issue.
  • A persuasive speech is a type of speech when the speaker seeks to convince an audience based on a spoken argument. Persuasive speeches are composed of three components: an appeal to logic, an appeal to emotion, and an appeal to credibility.
    • An appeal to logic is when you persuade an audience with reason. (Learning, n.d.)
      • Example: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” – Abraham Lincoln
    • An appeal to emotion is when you elicit an emotional response from the audience. (Learning, n.d.)
      • Example: “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • An appeal to credibility is when the speaker’s status or authority on the subject persuades the audience. (Learning, n.d.)
      • Example: “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.” – Lloyd Bentsen
    •  The National Constitution Center compiled the ten greatest speeches in U.S. history. From Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech to Ronald Reagan’s Tear Down This Wall speech, great oration significantly affects public policy (NCC, 2017). Included on this list is Martin Luther King, Jr’s I have a Dream Speech. Newsweek, an American news magazine, has the video of the speech and The New York Times has an excellent analysis of the speech.
• Within the speech please include the following:
  • State the public policy concern.
    • Include either a logical, emotional, and/or credibility appeal.
  • Explain the current finances of your federal department, administration, or agency.
  • Describe how the federal department, administration, or agency can positively affect the public policy concern with increased funding.
• Support your analysis with information from the text and at least two additional academic source