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 * the congress person most like me is John Boozman. we have the same ideas about conserving energy. it is a really important issue and he is sponsoring bills to help improve the environment. keeping the environment healthy helps save money, makes the air cleaner and reduces health risks and just makes the environment better all around.**

**interesting facts about arkansas**
- arkansas has the only diamond mine in the country - they have a 35 member senate and 100 memeber house of representatives - mainly produce rice and livestock - 53,182 square miles in size - the state capitol is little rock - 27th largest state

**5 facts about my state that relate to my issues**
- each year as population increases the crime rate increases - in just 2009 alone, 247,994 crimes occured being in the topics violent, property, rape, murder, robbery, assualt, burgulary and theft all throughout the state of arkansas - in 2002 alone, 39088 illegal drug reports were recorded - arkansas is trying to decide what to do about the crime with guns and how they can decrease it without being unfair - many peoples ideas on the death penalty for crimes are split

**3 issues that are most important to you and positions on them**
====**- the last issue that i find important is poverty.**poverty: the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or mens of support, the condition of being poor. i hate the thought of people in poverty. some people say that people are in poverty because they are too lazy to work for money to live. in some cases, that may be true, but in others, some people might not be able to work. maybe they have a serious health problem or they have searched for a job and have been highly unlucky. i feel bad hearing about all the stories about homeless people and seeing starving people begging for money on the side of the road. some people treat them like they are savage animals and are afraid to go near them or talmk to them. i hate that because they are normal people just like every one else they just arent as lucky.====
 * -the death penalty is a really important issue to me.** i have very mixed felings about the penalty. i believe that taking a humans life being a criminal is wrong, so a harsh punishment is needed. i think though, that killing the person who committed the crime is really harsh because you are killing some body elses son, daughter, father mother, what ever the relation is so more then one person is being punished even though they are innocent. i dont think that is fair. i think the death penalty is just really harsh all around. i mean, what if the person had a really good reason for committing the murder? not saying murder is right, but the person who gets put on death row might not actually be a horrible person just because of one huge mistake.
 * - another important issue to me is voting.** many people of legal age to vote to do not excersize their rights. also, some people vote with little knowledge of what they are voting for. i think the legal age for voting should be reduced to age 16. this way, the students would still be in school and they could be talking to other students about their thoughts and talk to teachers and learn about the issue so the people actually know what they are talking about. im not really sure what i think about the number of people who have a right to vote but dont, im not sure their is a way to solve the problem because people just arent motivated enough.

**link to bill im sponsoring and explanation as to why people should support it**
http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/SB8 people should support my bill because it is to help the people. my bill is to add another class, for citizenship and justice system knowledge, into the curriculum. students should learn at an early age what it will be like to be a real citizen. they would understand the risks better of crime, which could decrease crime rate and deaths making the cummunity a safer place for everybody.

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