jglockner

Name: Jake Glockner State: Louisiana Political Party: Moderate

-The Congress person from Louisiana that is most like me: -Rodney Alexander ([] ) -We both agree on these issues: -the second amendment: Both Rodney and I believe that Americans need to protect our right to bear arms -solving America's energy crisis: We both believe that us as Americans need to find new and better ways to create energy so that America can be less dependent on foreign oil -on National Security: Both of us agree that we need to do everything that we can to protect America and its citizens so that we can prevent another disaster like 9/11 from happening again -on reducing taxes: We both believe that in these hard economic times, people should have lower taxes to pay for things like food and education

-5 interesting facts about Louisiana: -the state motto is "Union, Justice, and Confidence" -the state insect is the honey bee -Louisiana is the only state that doesn't have counties <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Louisiana's population is 4,468,976 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Louisiana's nickname is "The Sportsman's Paradise"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-5 facts about Louisiana that relate to the issues and that are most important to me: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Louisiana is the 10th highest Carbon Dioxide polluting state in the U.S. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Louisiana has a great bio energy potential compared to other states because of its productive agriculture and forestry industries <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Louisiana is the U.S.'s second largest natural gas producer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-Adults with a permit can conceal and carry in Louisiana <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-One of Louisiana's main industries is petroleum and coal

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">3 three issues that are most important to me: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Protecting the Second Amendment __: People and organizations tried, try, and will try more to ban American's right to own and to carry guns or to make owning a gun so expensive that only wealthy people would be able to own one. This issue is important to me because it is every adult American's right to carry and own firearms.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Solving America's Energy Crisis __: America is in trouble right now because of oil. Prices of oil are getting high and many feel that America's dependency on oil is also too high. This issue is important to me because coal and oil will not last forever and because we need to find a non-polluting way to power things like cars.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">-__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">Reducing Taxes for American Citizens __: Recently, the economy has been bad and many people have been out of work. Because of that, many people are short on money and have a hard time paying high taxes. This issue is important to me because if Americans have more of their own money, the economy will grow stronger.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This is a link to the bill that I am sponsoring:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">http://mockcongress2011.wikispaces.com/HB16 __

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">People should support this bill for the sake of our youth. Many under-aged teenagers are using tobacco and this bill will help prevent that in the future. Currently, people can begin to use tobacco when they turn eighteen, and that means that the eighteen and nineteen year olds that are still in high school can legally have it and if they are irresponsible enough, they can easily give it to the younger and under-aged teenagers who would use that tobacco to start a terrible, lifelong habit that will slowly kill them. If this bill passes, it would help to prevent tobacco from entering our high schools and it would help prevent teenagers from developing an addiction to tobacco. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"Louisiana Energy Data." //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">ERedux Energy: Sustainable Geoscial Products and Services Network //. Web. 22 May 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"Louisiana Facts." //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Louisiana Secretary of State //. The State of Louisiana, 2011. 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