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Allie Prusha,South Carolina Representative,Moderate Conservative Republican [] Joe Wilson-Joe Wilson is a representative like me. First,he is a republican,which I am too. Second,he also believes that we should secure our borders more and create fair laws for immigrants. Third,he also believes in national security. Fourth,he believes that our veterans should have high respect.Finally,he wants to fix the job problems.

__About South Carlolina~__ 1.State Capital-Columbia 2.State Amphibian-Spotted Salamander 3.There are about 30 million visitors every year 4.40th Largest State 5.Motto-Dum Spiro Spero (While I breathe, I hope)

__Five facts that relate to my issues:__ 1.Failing septic systems can pollute water 2.Pet waste can pollute water 3.11.9 million plastic surgery procedures were done in 2004 4.$387 is the average cost for one single Botox injection 5.70 to 80 million people in the US own guns

__Issues~__ 1.__Cosmetic Surgery__-Cosmetic surgery is an issue that has grown 147% since 1997. Its main reason was to help soldiers from WWI to return home with a "normal face" after injuries, so they could return and not stand out. Nowadays, cosmetic surgery is very popular-especially for women. Actually, 90% of cosmetic surgeries are done on women today. The most popular of them are liposuction,nose reshaping, eyelid surgery and tummy tuck. I think that this is an issue that should be solved by only using these type of emergencies for only what they were intended to do-fix any battle wounds.

2.__Marine Pollution__-Marine pollution includes oil spills, heavy metals, toxic chemicals, debris from marine vessels, and radioactive wastes. Oil spills are the most well-known. Only few laws have been passed about dumping harmful matter into the ocean. Some of the marine debris dumped into the water includes glass,plastic,metal,and other materials-even human waste from cruise ships! I think that the water ecosystems need help with this issue.I believe that we should help,its the easiest thing to do, just stop putting things like that in the ocean.

3.__Gun Control__-Assassinations of people like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. mattered to our country. What is the resolution? Gun control. Between 1999 and 2005 schoolyard shootings has raised a lot. There is a lot of debate between the Second Amendment and how it protects law-abiding citizens to bear fire arms. I think that there should be a few more laws to help stop these killings and to prevent any more incidents like these from ever happening in America again.

My Bill-HB3-Did you know that 35 states have average teacher salaries that are below the national average? Since the 3.1 inflation in money, teachers' salaries were only raised 2.3. Some teachers have to get another part-time job to fulfill their need for money.This bill is to give a pay a public school teacher deserves based on his/her teaching skills. Teachers need to be paid/hired according to how well they teach because America needs the best educators to create tomorrow's jobs. This not only concerns the good teachers that deserve a good pay, but the students who deserve good teaching.This bill states that teachers should be paid upon how well they teach, which is graded upon by government workers. Each worker travels to ten school districts to judge how well a teacher teaches his/her curriculum and how much they should be paid. If they receive a higher score, this results in higher pay or being hired. If you receive a lower score, they could get paid less or even fired.The reason you should vote for this bill is because fair pay for teachers means fair teaching, and fair teaching leads to good students and higher levels of education, which helps create new jobs for our future. For more information,click on the link.

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