Healthcare
In the United States, many people purchase health insurance to help them cover the sometimes high cost of healthcare services.
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without some sort of universal healthcare systemConnecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care: The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States (June 4, 1999) and the proposed implementation of an American universal healthcare system has become one of the platforms of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign.BarackObama.com: Healthcare
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Sam Graves
An advocate of fiscal restraint, Sam Graves voted against the bailouts and stimulus bills passed in the 111th Congress.http://www.gravesforcongress.com/Groups/1000060519/Sam_Graves_for/Home/Issues/Issues.aspx Graves co-sponsored the Fair-Tax to implement a national sales tax in place of progressive income taxes, and he opposed the National Energy Tax that places a limit on carbon emissions.http://www.house.gov/list/press/mo06_graves/captrade.shtml Besides being chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, he is also a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400158
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U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives has legislative powers that no other part of government has.
- The House has the exclusive right to initiate revenue bills.
- The House has the exclusive right to impeach officials.
- The House has the exclusive right to declare and elect a president should an election be deadlocked.http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/14.htm
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Duncan D. Hunter
Hunter is focused on immigration issues and has introduced legislation to build a fence along the United States-Mexico border and for immigration reform. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Duncan_Hunter He has made issues of national security a primary objective for the upcoming 112th Congress and currently serves on the Armed Services Committee, which his father chaired during the 109th Congress. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Duncan_Hunter
updated 2010-12-14 03:25:11
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Devin Nunes
Congressman Nunes introduced the Turn on the Pumps Act in 2009, a two-page bill intended to alleviate the water shortage San Joaquin Valley farmers in his district were facing.http://nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=350eb49e-b0d0-fc95-f8bb-37ee86400e38 He has also introduced the American Made Energy Freedom Act, legislation designed to foster the development of clean energy technologies and energy independence.http://nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutDevinNunes.Biography In addition, Nunes co-sponsored the Patients' Choice Act as an alternative to the Health Care Reform legislation passed in 2010. Nunes believes the Patients' Choice Act would ensure quality health care for all Americans more efficiently and at a lower cost than the Health Care Reform Bill of 2010.http://nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=f1625ca4-b0d0-fc95-f891-0662d03d12be http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2520
Congressman Nunes opposes the Cap and Trade energy tax plan. He believes the plan would cause energy costs to skyrocket, have no real impact on worldwide carbon emissions and damage the U.S. economy by driving American jobs overseas.http://nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=d4a6135f-19b9-b4b1-1265-804cd5cd8cb4 Nunes also opposes the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. He supports adding personal retirement accounts to existing Social Security benefits.http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Devin_Nunes.htm Congressman Nunes voted along party lines 95 percent of the time during the 111th Congress.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/111/states/ca/
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David McKinley
McKinley is a Republican and his issue positions are conservative. He opposes gay marriage and federally funded healthcare, supports tax cuts for small businesses and opposes environmental regulation of the coal and natural gas industries.http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=117396 He also opposes any regulation of coal mining that will effect the industry economically, and believes that market-based strategies are the best means of solving America's energy and environmental problems.http://www.mckinley2010.com/index.php/theissues McKinley has expressed interest in positions on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee because of his engineering background and his state's coal-producing interests, respectively.http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20101106/pl_cq_politics/politics000003759326
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Sandra Adams
Some of the bills Adams sponsored or co-sponsored in 2009, while serving in the Florida House were:
- HB 7063--Administrative Trust Fund/DOChttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- CS/HB 7141--Seaport Securityhttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- HR 9009--University of Florida National Football Championshttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- HR 9075--Bay of Pigs Memorial Dayhttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- HR 9085--Ryan Lochtehttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- HB 7069--Federal Grants Trust Fund/State Courts Systemhttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
- HB 7073--Federal Grants Trust Fund/FDLEhttp://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/sponsoredbills.aspx?MemberId=4267&SessionId=61
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Nancy Pelosi
When Pelosi became the Speaker of the House of Representatives, she and the new majority Democratic Party set about a number of reforms in the "first hundred" business hours. The house condemned President Bush's troop surge plan for Iraq, passed a bill to increase the minimum wage and passed new ethics guidelines for members of Congress.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/ She has a record of supporting abortion rights, gun control and increases in medicare benefits.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/ Pelosi also advocates for civil rights such as gay marriage.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/
Pelosi met with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2009 during her trip to Italy. Pelosi has been criticized by Catholic leaders for supporting abortion rights.http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-02-18-pope_N.htm The Pope released a statement after the private meeting. He said that he had talked to Pelosi about "the dignity of human life from conception to natural death".http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-02-18-pope_N.htm According to the statement, Benedict told Pelosi that all Catholics should work for "a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development."http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-02-18-pope_N.htm
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2010 Census
While the first U.S. census was done in 1790, it wasn't until 1902 that the US Census Bureau became an official government entity. The bureau falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is conducted under Title 13 of the US legal code.
