2014 The Honorable Susan Davis 1526 Longworth House Office Building United States House of Representatives Washington‚ DC 20515 Dear Representative Davis: My name is … and I am writing as your constituent in the 53rd Congressional district of California. I am writing to ask you to cosponsor Rep. John Conyers’ Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act (H.R. 676). United States House of Representatives Bill Number 676 is the proposed U.S. legislation to establish single-payer health care‚ improved
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through elected representatives. The United States’s system is a democracy where the people’s votes‚ opinion‚ and action make a difference. Every four years we hold an election to select who will be our succeeding president. When our country was being developed we had a group of white‚ well-educated‚ and most part wealthy males who were known as the Framers. The Framers of the United States created a system called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of representatives of each state
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PARLIAMENT IN INDIA AND SHORT NOTES ON OTHER PARLIAMENTS By‚ T.Vishnu‚ IX A. The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. The parliament house originally known as ’Council House ’‚ founded in 1919‚ the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and
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The United States is a representative democracy. The goal of a representative democracy is to allow new blood to flow through the government each election cycle. This goal‚ however‚ is achieved less and less in modern times due to the re-election of many career politicians. These career politicians then spend their next term engaging in activities that will better their chances of re-election‚ rather than helping their constituents. For this reason‚ an overwhelming majority of incumbents at the national
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Education of New York State. Over three thousand entries were received‚ and William Tyler Page was declared to be the winner. James H. Preston‚ the mayor of Baltimore‚ presented an award to Page in the House of Representatives Office Building on April 3‚ 1918. The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the commissioner of education of the state of New York accepted the Creed for the United States‚ and the proceedings relating to the award were printed in the Congressional Record of April 13‚ 1918. It
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Could you imagine what the United States would be like if our government didn’t protect us from tyranny? Luckily‚ due to the constitution our founding fathers created‚ we don’t have to worry about tyranny happening any time soon! Written in Philadelphia‚ 1787‚ the constitution was made to replace the articles of confederation which were too weak to hold the government together or to be effective. Their objectives for writing it was to ensure that the government was strong nationally and able to run
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. Compare the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution. Which document did a better job of protecting liberties? Running a government? Explain your answer with specific examples. The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution are only six years apart in history. Knowing this you would think that they have very few differences but it is the complete opposite. As soon as the Articles of Confederation were ratified‚ it got everyone thinking about how to create a good system of government
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candidate who switches his issue points is never a good thing. In my eyes‚ it is foreshadowing that the President may not follow through with their campaign promises. Gene McCarthy was an American politician‚ who served on the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms and the U.S. senate for three more terms. McCarthy was very similar to McKay in the sense that he was the Democratic candidate challenging incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson. However‚ this was different to the movie in the sense that
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care reforms * Authority spread across several committees * Involvement includes regulatory‚ programmatic‚ financing‚ and oversight 2) How does Congress operate? The United States Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the Washington‚ D. C. in the U.S. Capitol. Each state has two members representing it in the Senate‚ regardless of the population of the state. The Senate has certain powers that the House does not. These include accepting
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American people to vote intelligently‚ thus casting an informed ballot. It is logical to examine the résumé of those who represent us by examining the political history and more importantly the voting record of those who represent us. Our votes for representatives in Congress are particularly important for it is the Constitution that gives us our responsibility. There are reliable sources (e.g.‚ votesmart.org‚ The Almanac of American Politics) which can provide a plethora of information without exerting
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