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North Carolina Veronica Guastella Political party: Moderate Representatives- Walter Jones and Brad Miller

link to Brad Miller: [] I agree with Brad Miller the most because I believe we need to keep our environment clean. He is pushing for an alternative energy source, and searching for energy efficient technologies. I also believe that everyone should have good values, and Brad Miller has great values. He doesn't like the sneakiness that is in the government and uses his morals as a guide as a person of congress.

__**Facts about North Carolina**__ 1) It was admitted to statehood in Novemeber 21, 1789. 2) The Northern flying squirrel has been endangered in North Carolina since 1985. 3) Its economy is poultry, eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle, and soy beans. 4) In North Carolina if you abuse an animal it is a class one felony. 5) North Carolina has bad air quality because of the pollution. 6) North Carolina has 350 miles of coast line that is vital to the economy. 7) Pollution in North Carolina's water doesn't always come locally, the trash can drift and land in North Carolina.

__**5 facts about my issue- Homelessness**__ 1) Homelessness has been created a s a result of low job productivity. The economy is a big reason why many people are homeless today. 2) There are five distinct waves of homelessness. 3) The first wave is when England had to many poor people, so they transported a portion of them to the 13 colonies. The poor were denied settlement right there.The second wave happened after the civil war. 5) The third wave happened in the industrial expansion. 6) The fourth wave was from great depression to Word War II. It ended at World War II because many homeless people joined the army. 7) The fifth wave happened in the 1980s many temporary jobs were made and were unstable, also immigrants came in. There are currently 842,000. resources __**Issues**__
 * 1) Animal rights- In government there has been no legal rights in the past two centuries. There has been no laws set because it is arguable about how far the laws should go. People aren’t sure which animals these laws should apply to.
 * 2) Marine pollution- Pollution in the water can kill fish and other marine life if they ingest toxins, they can also die if the get tangled in trash. Through history people have been known just to dump things off ships when they don’t need them. This happened for years until we realized the damaged we were doing.
 * 3) Endangered Species- Scientists think there are 30 million species on the plant, and we only know of 5% of that. We have been trying to protect endangered species since the Roman times, but we made our first official law in 1966.

1) I think that animals should have rights. They cannot defend them selves from humans well. We already have animal protection law, but I think some animals are smart enough to have rights. I don't think that all animals should have rights. I think only the smartest animals should have rights because they will be the most conscious of our actions. 2) We should try to lower our marine pollution because it is killing our wildlife. We need to find a better more effective way to dispose of trash. By dumping trash into the ocean we are knowingly killing animals. I think it is wrong that we pollute, and I also think that it is unhealthy and unsanitary for everyone in the world. 3) We should conserve our endangered species before it is too late. Every animal plays an important part in our ecosystem. If we do not try and help endangered species, we could have drastic changes in our wildlife. We need to worry about this now before it gets to be too late for us to prevent. In most case we cause species to be endangered, so we owe it to the animals to help them refrain from becoming extinct. 4) Homelessness has always been around, but it has recently increased. I think this is because of our poor economy. No one can get jobs right now because of the poor economy, so as a result no one can make money. I think that instead of making temporary jobs for homeless people we should spend time creating more permanent jobs. Creating more permanent jobs takes longer, but what we have been doing hasn't been working.
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**http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/HB32**
Purpose My bills purpose is to stop cyber bullying. I'm planning to stop cyber bullying by making more severe punishment for cyber bullying. I believe this will lower the number of children who cyber bully. Cyber bullying can lead to teen suicide, or the killing of other students. Cyber bullying can have devastating effects on the students and families involved, that is why we need to stop it.

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