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=**__Representative: Louise Beckstrom__ __(on wiki Lucy33)__**= =**__State: Louisiana__**= =**__Political Party: DEMOCRATS!!__**= =**__Congress Person Most Like Me: Mary Landrieu__**=

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====We agree in the area of costal iusses, health care, and small businesses. We both agree that we need to do more to protect the envirnment. Also we both agree that the health care bill is a good decision. As for small businesses we agree that they need to be helped. I am glad that Mary Landrieu agrees with me, because many of my friends and others that I have talked to disagree fully.====

=**__5 Interesting Facts About Louisiana__**=

2. The offical colors are blue, white, and gold.
3. Holds the grounds of the 1812 battle. 4. The Brown Pelican is the state bird, which gives the state its nickname, the Pelican State. 5. It was the 11th state to the union.

=**__3 Issues That Are The Most Important to Me__**= ====1. Costal preservation- My postition is to protect them as much as possiable. We and the envirnment has destroyed so much coast that we are losing animals and plants. We have destroyed the coast because of building things, and with pollutents in the air. Nature has also destroyed the coast. This is because of storms. Such as hurricanes and tropical storms. Also nature and humans have both contributed to the loss because of global warming. This is because earth is, for some reason still unknown, holding greenhouse gas longer then it should. Humans are a cause of global warming because of the pollution.==== ====2. Health care- My postition is to let the bill pass. I believe that it will make a difference for the better. Some people will benifit by the bill. I think that more people will be helped by this bill then there are now. Yes, there will be people that will be uneffected and maybe harmed by it, but the bill's holes can be patched in the future.==== 3. Small Businesses- My postition is to help them as much as we can. They are being killed by the economy and are falling faster then the bigger businesses. People are starting to shop less becuase they are small. Also because many cannot efforde commercials they do not have very good ways to advertise. The bigger companies have an advantage because most of them can afforde it. Small businesses are then are invisable because people run to bigger places because they advertise that they have the best price in town. Those businesses sometimes do not, they just say that the prices cannot be beat and, is our price higher? Tell us and we will match the lower stores one.

=**__5 Interesting Facts About My Issues__**=

2. Also about the preservation of the coast, Louisiana is the state that has lost 80% of the coast loss total.
3. In Louisiana, as far as health care, there are 894000 residents that are uninsured and 241000 residents that have individual insurance, they all will gain affordable coverage through the bill. 4. There are 400000 small businesses in Louisiana, and that makes up about 98 percent of its businesses. 5. Forty percent of the small business owns are women.

=**HB78**= ====This is a link to my Bill. It is on Nuclear energy. I blieve that we use to much Nuclear Power. It's raidiation can cause cancer. It also has alot of pollution to it. it fix this problem my partner and I are proposing that we have a hydroelectric power plant put into the states that have a strong water source, and a turbine in the states that do not have this water source. You should vote for this bill because it will create change for the better. It will be a step into the furture of power. This bill will help us get to a energy efficent way of life.==== =**__10 Resources that I used__**=

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