During her campaign for United States Senate in 2020, Ellie Equitable promises that if elected she personally will guarantee that by 2022, the United States will have a federal law requiring employers to publish salaries paid to present employees by job category and gender (excluding each individual employee's name) to ensure transparency and mitigate against discriminatory pay practices.Assume further that Ellie is elected and that you have complete faith that Ellie will make every effort she can to keep her promise.Discuss the reasons why Ellie cannot ensure that her promise will not be broken by focusing on the steps required to enact a statute, including the role of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government in that process.

On November 10, 2020, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Texas v. California, a case once again challenging the constitutionality of the ACA.Identify (1) what action Congress took in 2017 and (2) how that action is being argued as a basis for challenging the ACA as no longer supported by the enumerated power under which the Act was upheld in Sebelius v. National Federation of Independent Businesses in 2010.