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Name: Tyler Finkenthal  State: Vermont  Political Party: Democrat  Senator: Patrick Leahy  Patrick Leahy link: [] Link to my Bill: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/SB36 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ **Why I Agree With Patrick Leahy:** __1. Patrick Leahy believes that we should find new ways to produce energy and that is what one of my mane issues are.__ __2. Patrick Leahy agrees with the clean air act and so do I.__ __3. I want to keep land clean just like Patrick Leahy.__  _  **__Five Facts About Vermont__**  1. Vermont was the first state added to the union after the 13 original colonies.  2. Unites States president, Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont.  3. Vermont's capital Montpelier, contains less than 9,000 people. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4. Vermont's largest employer is IBM. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. Forests cover more than 3/4 of the states. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Five Facts About Vermont Relating To My Issues:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1. The Vermont land truss has saved over 500,000 acres of land. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2. The conserved land includes over 700 working farmers. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3. The Vermont land truss creates many jobs for the working people. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4. In Vermont 72.3% of electricity is created by nuclear power, 22.4% from hydroelectric energy, 5% from wood and wood derived fuels, and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> .2% from wind energy. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. Vermont uses no fossil fuels for electricity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Nuclear Power Issue:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Vermont uses a large abundance of nuclear energy to make electricity. 72.3% of the energy is produced by nuclear power. This is a a good and bad thing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some bad things are that nuclear power is very expensive and it gives off radiation, just like it did in japan.A good thing about nuclear power is Vermont needs to cut down on nuclear <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> power and switch over to more environment healthy ways to produce electricity. All though nuclear energy is very effective, it needs to be <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> slowly stopped to help the environment. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Energy Conservation Issue:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Over the past few years, Vermont has been trying to promote energy conservation. I think this is a good thing. Ways to promote energy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> conservation is to buy hybrid cars to cut down on the usage of fossil fuels and this would also help the environment. Another benefit of hybrid <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> cars would be that oil and gas prises would decrease because there wouldn't be such a high demand for it. Another idea is to use renewable <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> resources to create energy. Energy conservation would be a good thing for the state of Vermont. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Climate Change Issue:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Climate change is a problem because it can affect humans, plants, animals and the environmentally. Ways to stop global warming is <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to stop pollution because that is the thing that is said to cause it. Ways to stop pollution are to cut down on the use of fossil fuels and to find alternate energy sources. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Link To My Bill: http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/SB36 ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Why People Should Support My Bill:** Everyone in the U.S.A. should support this bill because it will cut down on Co2 emission from cars because less fuel will be burned if the MPG is higher. The effect of this will be an increase in the health of people and also this bill will create jobs because of the workers needed in the scrap metal facilities. Over all this is a bill that will help everyone out and everyone should vote for it. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**10 Resources:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1**. Henderson, Harry. "Nuclear Power: Overview." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** 2. Stockdale, Nancy. "Energy Conservation: Overview." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** 3.<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 32px;">"About the Vermont Land Truss." // Vermont Land Truss //. Vlt.org. Web. <http://www.vlt.org/about-vlt>. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** 4. "Vermont Trivia." // Vtliving //. Vtliving. Web. <http://vtliving.com/trivia/index.shtml> ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** 5. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">// Patrick Leahy - United States Senator for Vermont: Home //. Web. 19 May 2011. <http://leahy.senate.gov/>. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px;">6.<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Stockdale, Nancy L. "Climate Change: Overview." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;">7. Newton, David E. "Environmental Justice: Overview." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;">8. Vermont: Overview." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">United States Geography //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;">9. Vermont." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 19 May 2011 ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px;">10. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">Vermont Fast Facts and Trivia." // 50states.com - States and Capitals //. Web. 19 May 2011. <http://www.50states.com/facts/vermont.htm>. ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">