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Name: Sarah Pierce State: South Carolina Political Party: Republican Lindsey Graham []

Five interesting facts about South Carolina are; 1.South Carolina was named to honor king Charles I. 2.South Carolina was home to several famous people which include Vanna White, Andrew Jackson, and Chubby Checker. 3.South Carolina is the fortieth biggest state in the Untied States. 4.South Carolina, before it was The Palmetto State, was The Iodine State. 5.The state flower is the yellow Jessamine.

Five facts about heath care in South Carolina is: The population that is uninsured is 736,800 or 16%. Children that are unisuerd is 147,500 or 13%. 50% of employees get health care from their jobs. 20% of people have medicaid. 17% of the people have medicare.


 * __Three Issues of important to me: Heath Care, Environment, Education.__**

Heath Care: I think that Heath Care is too expensive even though people that are poor or that does not have money could get Medicaid to help pay off thier bills. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable care act on march 22,2010.The House of Representatives passed the American's Affordable health choice act from a 220- 215 vote. Environment: I think that if people pick up more garbage that they throw down or see when they are walking the enviroment will be better. I also think that there should be some signs in front of the parks that said "make the park a better place throw your garbage away in a garbage bin."(we need the earth to be cleaner) (CHEJ) is a national evironmental organization that works to protect communities from toxic substances in the water, air, and soil.

Education: In different citys Education is different from ours. Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) This act was the largest federal ais package to an education program. this was available to all but 5% of American school districs.They set aside $1.3 billion in Federal Funds

This purpose is to get people to stop smoking around their children. If you smoke when you're pregnant the baby can have health issues. While a child is around a person who smokes they can be affected by having asthma, bronchitis, and other illnesses. If a child has an illness like cystic fibrosis they may have trouble breathing, short of breath, coughing, makes you feel sick, the smell can make you sick and many other side effects. The worst kind of smoking is secondhand smoke because you breathe it in when it's in the air. Children will breathe in secondhand smoke when they are around people who smoke. If you are a smoker do you want your kids to breath all that bad secondhand smoke and might die becouse of lung canser, or do u want them to breath safe clean air and be able to stay alive for a long time.
 * Health and Safety- Smoking Around Children**

If you dont want kids to get sick, or get harmfull illnesses I think that you should do somthing to stop people from smoking. I think that people should stop smoking around children becouse how much chemicals are in a cigarette, and how bad all of that can harm a child. [|http://www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu/secondhandsmoke/index.asp] This site can help people learn about second hand smoke

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