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=Welcome to the page of Senator Cameron Gorman, State: Kansas= =Everything Moderate Party=

**I am Most like Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas.**

 * Here is a link to his page. []**

Link to Bill Page
For your consideration of what makes my state, Kansas, unique, here are ten interesting facts about the state of Kansas that you might not know!

** 10 Basic facts about the state of Kansas **
· They have four Representatives · There are 105 counties in the state of Kansas. · The capital city of Kansas is Topeka, Kansas. · The population of Kansas in 2009 was 2,818,747 · The abbreviation or postal code is KS. · The area of Kansas is 82,282 square miles. · In 2003 the state earned about $93 billion. · Kansas was the 34th state · The major businesses/industries in Kansas are agriculture, aircraft making, and automobile (car) making. · The states that border Kansas are Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.

** 10 Interesting facts about the state of Kansas **
· The state song is actually “Home on the Range”. · Adam Stowger invented the dial phone was from Kansas. · Pizza Hut first started in Wichita, Kansas. · Sumner County in Kansas is the wheat capital of the world. · The state flower is the sunflower. · The word Kansas comes from an Indian word that means “People of the South Wind.” · The first woman mayor in the U.S.A. was Susan Madora Salter of Argonia, Kansas. · The motto of Kansas is “ad astra per aspera” which means “To the stars with difficulties. · Once it was illegal to serve ice cream on top of cherry pie in Kansas. · Kansas has the biggest number of wild grouse in North America.

**Five Issue Related Facts**

 * === To relate to Oil Drilling- Kansas produces 35 million barrels of oil anually. ===
 * To relate to Gun Control,a bill that allowed people to carry concealed weapons on Campuses was passed in May 2010
 * To relate to Civil Rights Issues (Money for the Blind)- Kansas has a Kansas School for the Blind that has been open since 1867.
 * Relating to Values and American Society- Over the last nine years, there have been 72 child fatilities due to abuse and neglect in Kansas.
 * Again, to relate to Oil Drilling and the Enviornment- Kansas has been drilling for oil for nearly 150 years commercially.

**My positions on three issues.**
- Civil Rights- I think that in order to have a full rights of the disabled, we must make it easier for them to have a functional life in the world. I believe that disabled people should be given a full chance to have the same full and rich life as the rest of us who are not disabled. Do I think that those who are impared should be left without assistance? No. But I do think that disabled people should be allowed to have a chance at a better lifestyle. One way that I propose we do this is to put Braille on American Currency. This has been a long debated issue, and I believe that it would benefit the visually impaired community. Is it fair that independent blind people are sometimes scammed out of their money? I will not let this continue.

-The Enviornment- (and oil drilling) I think that the state of our enviornment is very important indeed. The enviornment needs to be protected because once it is gone, there is nothing to be done about it. We must conserve and protect the enviornment as best we can. It is, in fact, very important to Kansas as we are a large agriculturally outputting state. One particular issue that I think needs to be resolved is that several senators and other people want to drill for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve. (ANWR) It is argued that oil drilling in this area will create more jobs. Personally, I believe that if more jobs can be created in this fashion, we can create more jobs by opening more job opportunities up in the field of renewable energy.

-Enviornment (Carbon Emissions)- I think that there should be a limit to how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses a buisness or factory can emit within one year. It can put a firm and final law down to finally cutting emissions. We can take steps to a better future with slowing down global warming. It would no longer "You should cut your emissions. We should save the planet while we can." It will be, "You must cut your carbon emissions. It is the law." Sometimes people must be told what to do if they are to do it.

=SB47- Keep The ANWR Clean = Purpose: The purpose of this bill is to stop and further prevent all oil drilling in and around the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, as it is proposed to loxer America's tremendous oil dependency. This bill would also promote the production of green energy and construct wind turbines, hydro-electric plants, etc. as alternative energy sources. It will preserve fragile ecosystems and wildlife and help to shrink America's large dependence on polluting fossil fuels while providing new jobs on-site as rangers in the ANWR and in the energy plants. This bill will also am t help America move forward, as a whole, in the direction of clean energy being typical. People should vote for this bill because we need to shift off of our oil dependency. The price of oil is rising every day, and is currentley at nearly 98- 112 dollars //**per barrel. ** // This rise in oil prices is forcing America to take drastic measures. But they need not be such drastic measures such as drilling for oil in a //**wildlife refuge. ** // We can use this challange to take a step to greener energy. What better a time than TODAY to start something for the benefit of the entire country. Bibliography

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