I want to thank every one of you for the support, that you have gave not only on the campaign trail, but also during my two years in the United States Congress, this term. As you know election season is around the corner, and I am hoping to have your support again as we being to campaign for my re-election for the great 5th District of Minnesota. I am writing to inform you all my successes, failures, routines, and what I was responsible for during my time on Capitol Hill. As your representative, I feel that is greatly important to provide transparency to my constituents. This allows for you to know how I am representing your interests. First it is important to describe my legislative activities during this session of Congress. Being a member …show more content…
Through the leadership of Minority Leader Don Beyer, we took a different approach in bringing the party together. In party caucuses, we as a party spoke of uniting as one to attempt to minimize the disadvantages we endured from past election results. We had less seats in Congress, so we as a party came up with a variety of ways to combat this issue, one solution would to find the weakest link in the Republican Party in attempts to sway their vote on key bills that we wanted to pass. I was a strong advocate for Bobby Scott’s “Parole and Probation Incentive Act. I felt supporting this bill was important to you all because overcrowding in prisons, not only in Minnesota, but the United States. The purpose of Bobby Scott’s bill was, “[it’s] a bill that would allow for those who are in probation, parole, or supervised release, on both the federal and state level, to receive a Good Time Credits for time they have followed the rules of their probation or parole (Bobby Scott’s Bill). Transparency is needed in government because it provides for a check against fraud. I want to mention to my constituents that I received two letters from interest groups that attempted to bribe me with monetary funds to change my …show more content…
There were bills sponsored by some of my colleagues that passed through their respective committee, but was not heard on the floor. There were also bills passes through committee and made it on to the floor for debate and vote, but ultimately did not achieve the necessary votes for passage into law. A bill that I wish would have been enacted was John Conyers the Law Enforcement Standards and Safety Act. The purpose of Conyers’ bill was. “to increase funding for law enforcement and set standards for state and local police departments, and for other purposes” (John Conyers’ Bill). This was one of my favorite bills that was proposed to Congress, and I feel we dropped the ball. Today the United States is facing a catastrophe of issues dealing with violence against citizens and violence against the police. This bill would have allowed for federal standards to be put in place. These standards would have provided solutions to end violence dealing with law enforcement. Another bill, that I felt would have been of great success and importance to you all was Bobby Scott’s Parole and Probation Incentive Act. Unfortunately, this bill died in
Members of congress have three specific goals. The one that seems to be the most important
It is obvious the Republican Party has no brains. If they elect Donald Trump to run for president, they are going to lose big time. They can blame themselves for being so stupid. The establishment runs the Republican Party. They are the ones who lose major elections. The leadership of the Republican Party shifts the blame to conservative wing of the Republican Party; however, it is the moderate wing of the Republican Party who loses elections. Does John McClain ring a bell? If the Republican Party hopes to win the presidency, they must run a conservative or face another trouncing in the next election. It is that simple. Therefore, the Republicans had better wake up fast if they want to
There has been much speculation whether political parties have become too strong in American politics and if that is a good or bad thing. My belief is that political party power in the United States is just about right where I believe that there are some instances where political parties have been in situations where they have too much power and instances where it is moderate. First off, political parties are crucial to our democratic government because it is composed of a group of people that the constituents elect to represent their issues or achieve a common goal. Being part of a group that shares your common interests or goals is more powerful than tackling an issue by your self. It gives you more voice and power in government. Also, political
Libertarians often called out the unethical and untrustworthy practices of the government. Most people who supports the Green Party are environmental conscious. The Green Parties supporters are for equality amongst all citizens and non-violence social reform. Both these parties called for a change from the unjust government practices, the representatives tap into the building frustration of its communities. Often casting blame onto the society that governs them. Although very few, we win office. They do caused a big impact on who could win office. Many voters vote for these representatives simply because they are tired with the current state of the nation.
A party’s platform is its official statement of beliefs and values. These platforms established from the view of a party such as Republic Party and Democrat Party. They have their own platforms to create their views on an issue. However, if the Democrat Party has their notions, Republican Party is not inherently related based on their true definitions. There are some similarities and differences between Republican Party and Democrat Party.
In today's day in age, the Democratic and Republican parties seem to be completely diverse. These two parties have completely opposing views on topics ranging from social issues, health care, tax policy, labor and free trade, foreign policy, crime and capital punishment, energy and environmental issues, and even education. Once upon a time however, these two groups were not as polarized as they have become. Both were once a single party known as the Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791. This sole party favored the idea of a decentralized, democratic government. They despised the idea of the U.S government becoming anything similar to England's monarchy system at the time. They also supported states’ rights as well as the literal and strict interpretation of the U.S Constitution. The group's purpose was to stand against the Federalists who were
In the United States we are divided by the left and right side on the political spectrum; even further divided into political parties such as Republicans, on the right, and Democrats, on the left side. These two political parties show philosophical differences through their viewpoints on major topics such as the economy, separation of church and state, abortion, and gun control.
The Republican Party was formed after the dissolution of the Whig Party in the early 1850’s mainly due to the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that nullified the Missouri Compromise and caused disagreements amongst the Party’s members. Anti-slavery activists, many Whigs among them, met in Wisconsin on March 20th, 1854 and formed the Republican Party. This new party was built upon a number of principles that were based on freedom and equal opportunity and it has consistently conveyed a commitment to the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These founding principles have led present-day Republicans to continue believing that each person is responsible for his or her own place in society . Therefore, the Republicans are against minimum wage and support programs and legislation that enable Americans to reach their fullest potential by going out and seeking the best possible opportunities available to them and if there are none, they must create them. Recently, the Party has been pressured by Democrats to abandon its founding beliefs by supporting a raise in minimum wage. This pressure has not yet been enough to sway many Republicans to permanently support a raise in minimum wage. By supporting a raise in minimum wage, the Republican Party would be abandoning its founding principles by supporting a system that does not enable people to put out their utmost effort when seeking employment and thus the Party must not support a raise in minimum wage as it is detrimental to society and the party could consequently lose support by abandoning its long-standing principles.
The proliferation of prison overcrowding has been a rising concern for the U.S. The growing prison population poses considerable health and safety risks to prison staffs and employees, as well as to inmates themselves. The risks will continue to increase if no immediate actions are taken. Whereas fighting proliferation is fundamentally the duty of the U.S. government, prison overcrowding has exposed that the U.S. government will need to take measures to combat the flaws in the prison and criminal justice system. Restructuring the government to combat the danger of prison overcrowding, specifically in California, thus requires reforms that reestablishes the penal codes, increases the state’s budget, and develops opportunities for paroles to prevent their return to prison. The following context will examine and discuss the different approaches to reduce the population of state prisons in California in order to avoid prison overcrowding.
Depending on the chamber of Congress where the bill exists, the procedures for floor action differ. I...
In the American political system, Congress plays a vital role. Whether it concerns legislation, finances and taxes, or investigation, Congress is a necessary entity for politics. With rules and regulations, Congress can effectively pass legislation that betters the United States. However, sometimes, Congress fails to answer and provide remedy to pressing issues that the United States face, which results in the failure of Congress enacting legislation regarding the most debatable and critical issues. Usually, congressional gridlock occurs when different parties are dominant in the House of Representatives and Senate, and the Houses do not come to conclusions on the issues.
Throughout the course of the Mock Congress project, organized by Ms. Sleighton, individuals began to understand the difficulty and challenges faced by congressmen. Prior to meeting with the committees, individuals had to construct a bill based off of one of the assigned topics, unique to each committee. In my situation, I completed my bill on reducing college tuition since I was a member of the Education and the Workforce- Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Once the bill was completed, the committees voted on which should pass and which should be terminated; my bill passed in our committee. Next, information about the passing bills were presented to the class, which was supposed to represent the House of Representatives,
Most people have the common view that the criminal justice system’s increasing arrests and imprisonment is an effective strategy for reducing crime. If the judicial system makes greater distinction among violent and nonviolent crimes, the prisons will have the vacancies to incarcerate the Jeffery Dahmers of the world in prison for life. By providing alternatives to imprisonment for nonviolent offenders will reduce the burden of taxpayer’s dollars for added funding for construction of new prisons. I know as a College Student I would like to see increased State funding for education system rather than the millions allocated to the prison system of Pennsylvania.
As both "conservatism" and "liberalism" have had various meanings sooner or later and transversely countries, the word liberal conservatism has been used in relatively different sanity. In political science, the word is used to pass on to ideologies that merge the support of capitalism, for instance value for contracts, protection of private property and free market require reference to validate with the principle in natural discrimination, the significance of religion, and the worth of traditional integrity need reference to validate in the course of a construction of inadequate, legitimate, representative government (Abdou & Zaazou 2013). It contrasts with traditional liberalism and particularly aristocratic conservatism, rejecting the belief of correspondence as a little in discordance with human nature, instead emphasizing the thought of natural inequality (Crozier. 2012).As the conservative thought in democratic countries hold typical liberal institutions such as the rule of law, private property, market economy, and constitutional representative government, the liberal factor of liberal conservatism
Many believed that the US state’s soaring expenditures and special interest politics are pushing states towards record budget deficits, causing a lack of funding towards education, health care, the poor, and even state correction system (Petersilia 2008). It is paramount that out government find ways to utilized government spending wisely towards all the principles mentioned, even towards state correction systems. Our government needs to put individuals in place to analyze prison systems and find ways to resolve the issues with recidivism. From the data collected, the government could learn the best methods of utilizing funding towards innovative programs to help with reform and