Charles (Chuck) Schumer (Senator)
Party Affiliation: Democratic Party
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Senate Committee on Finance.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Basic Overview: Chuck Schumer is the NY state senate along with Kirsten Gillibrand. Chuck is extreme democratic, he is pro-choice and receive a lot of recognition from Pro- choice foundations. Chuck is all about reproductive freedom , he voted for all health and reproductive care to promote the liberty of choice. During 2004-2009, he had become more environmentally concerned, he invest himself in multiple wildlife conservation efforts and voted on the bills in preserving wildlife funds and national park. Also Chuck Schumer is all for civil union, but
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Senate website, Throughout Kirsten’s time in Congress, she has been committed to open and honest government. When she was first elected, she pledged to bring unprecedented transparency and access to her post. She became the first Member of Congress to post her official public schedule, personal financial and federal earmark requests all online. Kirsten’s notable achievements are provide permanent health care and compensation to the 9/11 first responders and community survivors who are sick with diseases caused by the toxins at Ground Zero. leading the fight to end the sexual assault epidemic on our college campuses. strengthen the 2012 Farm Bill for New York by strengthening specialty crops, expanding rural broadband and improving recovery efforts from natural disasters.
She also led a fierce, but unsuccessful fight to stop billions in devastating cuts to nutritional assistance for struggling children, seniors and
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In 2004, he passed a law to create five eating disorder centers across the state to help those who suffer from illnesses including anorexia and bulimia. His obesity and diabetes fighting initiatives were recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama. As a result, his obesity concepts became part of the Affordable Care Act.
CARLOS MENCHACA (Local Legislature)
Party affiliation: Democratic Party
Committee on Immigration
Basic Overview: Menchaca is a New York Council Member who deals with Immigration affairs, He is also a LGBT activist participating in many marches and public speech deliverings.Carlos represents an incredibly diverse district of communities in New York: a large Chinese and Latino immigrant population, the second largest public housing development in the City. After hurricane Sandy many reparation efforts are made by Menchaca
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Major Accomplishments (Not Limited To):
Creation of the $16 million (2,000 homes) Neighborhood Revitalization NYC Mold Treatment Program after Hurricane Sandy.
Won passage of the New York City Council “Sandy Tracker Bill”
Securing a pledge of $1.2 million in emergency relief funds for undocumented Sandy victims from the NYC Commission on Immigrant Affairs.
Passing of Municipal ID law (IDNYC) in New York
In my opinion, Dianne Feinstein is a very liberal Democrat senate because she strongly supports bills that ban gun sales and military assault rifles. Also, she is very liberal on her opinions on abortion rights and same-sex marriage couple’s rights. She gives great care minorities like abused women around the world, African Americans, American Laborers and Gay couples.
Royer, Jordan. “Hurricane Sandy and the importance of being FEMA”, Crosscut.com, Crosscut.com, Web. 1 Nov 2012, 3 May 2014.
A consumer and senior citizen advocate U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky has fought throughout her career for economic and social improved life. She is support of universal health care coverage for all Americans, to investment in public education, and
In his lifetime he: “was the highest- ranking Senator in the Majority Party, known as President as Pro Tempore, served as the senior member of the senate Appropriations Committee, was the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittees, and had cast more than 18,689 roll call votes- more than any other senator. He even has a 97 percent attendance record out of 50 years!”
Roger F. Wicker was elected to the United States Senate on November 4, 2008, and currently serves with Senator Thad Cochran representing the state of Mississippi (www.senate.gov). Each state always has two senators in the Senate regardless of its population size. Since there are fifty states that means there are one hundred senators currently serving in the Senate. Out of the one hundred senators, one-third of them come up for election every two years, because the terms are staggered. The interesting fact about the Senate seats is that senators who seek re-election usually win with a ninety percent success rate (www.wikipedia.com). The United States Senate has the responsibility to advise and consent to the President's government appointments, it must ratify all treaties with foreign governments, it tries all impeachments, and elects the Vice President in the event that no one gets a majority of the electoral votes in an election. Senators are elected to represent the state from which they are elected. They are assigned to serve on committees and review bills or proposed laws. Senator Wicker currently serves on five committees. Most of Senator Wicker’s policies that he sponsors centers on creating jobs, reducing spending, limiting federal overreach, and maintaining a strong nation...
...econd quadrennial homeland security review: Setting priorities for the next four years. Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/02/the-second-quadrennial-homeland-security-review-setting-priorities-for-the-next-four-years
The category 3 storm changed the lives of the residence who lived there forever. The storm in combination with the fault of the man-made flood protection walls (levee’s) resulted in the death of at least 1,300 people (1). With nearly half the victims over the age of 74, deaths were caused by; drowning, injury/ trauma and heart conditions (2). Hurricane Katrina was one of the most costliest storms to land on American soil, costing around US$135 billion in damages (3). Although the number of deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina are not as high as other natural disasters, Katrina displaced a massive amount of people from their homes, around 85% of the population were displaced directly after the storm hit (6). Being one of the most devastating natural disasters to hit the United States, Hurricane Katrina impacted not only the residence of New Orleans by also many of the surrounding
Hurricane Katrina was a major travesty to the gulf coast; high winds took down buildings, large rain flooded streets and buildings that still stood. Weeks after the hit of Katrina the media would show images of SOS signs on roof tops, civilians waist high in filthy flood water guiding rescue boats to survivors, and of pets needing help. Because of this there were many health issues that would arise and need rectifying to the good of the people. With any disaster as large as this one there are many health issues that have to be taken under control: Displacement, drinking water, growing viruses, emotional state of survivors or toxic contamination (Public Health News Center). The health problem in regards to the displacement of civilians that had to leave their homes is where will they sleep, what will they eat, and also how are they dealing with the disaster. And the most critical issue with thousands of displaced civilians is having access to clean drinking water (Kellogg Schwab, PhD, co-director of the Center for Water and Health.
Obesity in children is a growing crisis in our society. It has become an alarming concern for both communities and health care organizations. There are a number of ways to improve eating habits and encourage healthier choices. Making healthier foods accessible in groceries stores is one example. Our First Lady, Michelle Obama used the following quote during her speech in Chicago to call attention to the lack of healthy food stores in some communities in Chicago. She proclaims that it is a community matter and every one must be involve to make changes. Without change in the community individuals will not have opportunities to make healthier food choice .
By Michelle doing this it made us healthier, more active and also decreased America’s obesity. Hopefully Michelle’s influence carries on for future generations because we do not want to all be unhealthy and obese if there is something we can do about it.
... people trying to stock up for the storm. Since people did this, some people with not much money had to scavenge for food because when they got to the super markets they, had no food. Some long terms effects of sandy were; people’s homes were destroyed, just imagine if your house was destroyed in the middle of a hurricane and you had no shelter, you would have wind blowing in your face and have rain dripping down your face. It would be traumatic and very miserable. 3.5 billion Isn’t that a lot? That’s how costly it was to clean up sandy. Further on, this impacted New York, because 3.5 billion is a lot of money, perhaps they could have been more prepared for sandy. If they didn’t spend so much they could have put this money to better use like; fixing highways, they clean up the city, better transits, donate some of the money, and build nice parks that are safe.
"Hurricane Sandy: One Year Later | FEMA.gov." Hurricane Sandy: One Year Later | FEMA.gov. N.p., 28 Oct. 2013. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. .
During his presidency, he did many things like, healthcare. Healthcare is a very important thing for many Americans. He made a statement “… It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance for those who don’t. And it will slow the growth of healthcare costs for our families, our businesses, and our government.” -President Obama addressing the Joint Session of Congress in 2009. In 2010 Obama created the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on March 2010, by doing this it increased the coverage of healthcare insurance for many Americans.
There has been a greater focus on the nutritional of school lunches. Michelle Obama has joined the battle of obesity war in America by implementing stronger standards in school lunches. In 2010 the first lady introduced the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. The purpose of this act is for schools to serve more nutritional lunches and snacks to students. When school districts opt to participate in the National School Lunch Program by agreeing to supply children with healthier meals and snacks. They also receive incentives from the federal government School districts are not required to participate in the program. Each district choose whether or not they wish to enroll or not. If they do agree to participate and do not see it to be beneficial they are allowed to opt out of the program. “Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act." Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2016.”
On early morning of August 29th, 2005 on the Gulf Shore near New Orleans, a devastating hurricane struck. It wrecked havoc, demolishing anything in its path. Leaving nothing but mounds of trash. The surviving people were forced to leave due to massive flooding and the destruction of their homes. New Orleans was not the only place hit by Katrina but it was one of the areas that was hit the hardest. Millions of people were affected by this tragedy and the cost range was up in the billions. Crime rates went up, no one had a place to stay and water was polluted. The damage done by Katrina affected New Orleans and the other areas hit years after it struck. Restoration for the areas hit was going to need support from all of America and support groups across the country. No one was ready for this tragedy or could ever predict the horrible outcome.