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In Massachusetts the two Senators are **John F. Kerry** and Scott P. Brown. Kerry happens to be a Democrat and Brown is a Republican. Of the two Senators I agree most with John F. Kerry on the multitude of issues he believes to be most important. A list of these issues can be found on Kerry's website [|kerry.senate.gov/contact/] (scroll over "At Work For You in Congress" and click "List of All Issues"). Some of the things I agree on that Kery has brought to the public's attention are that we must work further on creating clean energy, we must provide further unemployment insurance and create more jobs for those people who have lost theirs, and that we should continue to help and support the small businesses in America because they currentley are the majority of all businesses.
 * Cameron Goldston**
 * State-//Massachussets//**
 * Political Party-//Democrat//**


 * Interesting Facts: Massachusettes**
 * 1.)** Massachusettes is named after the Algonquian Indian word //massachusett// meaning "great hill place".
 * 2.)** It's nicknames are The Bay State and The Old Colony.
 * 3.)** "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only by liberty" is the state motto
 * 4.)** About 88% of students are high school graduates
 * 5.)** The largest amount of land use is forest land, making up 49.9% of all massachusettes.


 * 5 Facts-Issues in Massachusettes**:
 * 1.)** In Mass. alone, small businesses bring in more than $25 billion in revenue.(Small Business)
 * 2.)** Small businesses employ approximatley 1.5 million people throughout the Bay State.(Small Business)
 * 3.)** Massachusettes is home to some of the first public schools in the United States and leads the nation to this day in educational achievements like being one of the winners in Obama's "Race To The Top" competition. It hopes to share its good fortune in education by helping other public schools throughout Mass. and America get proper funding and resources. (Education)
 * 4.)** After 9/11, funding from preventing street crimes and crime within communities became much smaller as it went to funding the national guard. An act introduced in Mass. called the "Protect Those Who Serve Act" intends to renovate, construct and improve local police departments. These will help with preventing smaller crimes within cities. (Public Safety and Crime)
 * 5.)** A crime bill created in 1994 greatly lowered crime rates in Boston, Mass. and in other cities throughout America. We need to continue to use such actions to continue to decrease crime rates. (Public Safety and Crime)


 * Most Important Issues:**
 * 1.)//Small Businesses//**- I believe that small businesses in America are a key part of our economy. In my mind it would be a wise choice to create further forms of an act, bill, or funding that will support these businesses so that they can continue to prove useful for America by the job opportunities they create and the products they produce.
 * 2.) //Education//**- I've always felt that a good education is the building block to a successful life. It's only fair to give each and every child a proper eductaion no matter the situation they come from at home. Everyone deserves the chance to succeed and getting an education will only further ready the next generations for the responsibilities they will have to take in the future to mold America into a better country.
 * 3.)//Public Safety and Crime//**- After situations like 9/11 and other crimes involving the nation as a whole, the focus of our coutry has turned to improving our national gaurd system. Truthfully I think that if we cant first deal with crime within our own cities and communities we will have a difficult time defending our nation from threats. It is an intelligent idea to better improve the funding and resources of our public law enforcements so that crime rates within cities and communities may decrease so that in the long run we wont have to worry as much about the "smaller crimes" and focus on the bigger national threats.

**Bill Link**-SB37
The bill my partner and I have created is called "Specialized Learning Classes in Large Schools". Our bill focuses mainly on education and the hard work and participation of city residents to improve education and lower the amount of dropouts in the United States even more. This bill is a plan to seperate the four core subjects (math, science, language arts and social studies) into subdivisions based on the 3 main types of learning methods(auditory, visual and tactile). By doing this we hope to give students throughout the U.S a method to fall back on during highschool when they cannot understand their lessons, rather than giving up, failing and dropping out. Everyone should support this bill because a proper education is key to every child's success and dropping out of highschool does not allow them to get this proper education to achieve success.

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-// High School Dropouts Say Lack of Motivation Top Reason to Quit  //  By: Gewertz, Catherine, Education Week, 02774232, 20060308, Vol. 25, Issue 26