Creating Civic Footprint

I used congress.gov to find the bill because when we had a class meeting with the librarian we were told that congress.gov was a beneficial website to search for bills.

Senator Royce West is the name of my chosen state-level legislative representative. He is a Texas state senator of district 23 from the capitol, his district location is in Dallas Texas. Mr. West is an African American male and also a Christian and a member of Good Street Baptist Church. Senator Royce West represents the Democratic Party and I share the same party preference as a Democratic. Senator Royce West has been in the senate office for twenty- four years, he has be serving since 1992 and as of 2016 still strongly represents Texas.

In 1991, he was elected Senator of Washington, D.C. He has been promoting “voter registration and the get-out-the-vote campaigns, universal health care, equal administration of justice in all communities, sufficient

For example, in the 2016 election, residents of Arvin, CA, my hometown, successfully campaigned and passed a measure to build a community college campus in our city. This was a significant accomplishment

Two years later, he was elected to the U.S. Senator of Massachusetts and served this position for 28 years. He was also the Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee. His last position before he became the Secretary of State was the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he worked on foreign policy and national security issues that the United States are facing, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, nuclear nonproliferation, and global climate change.

I chose Barbara Boxer as the Senator to research. I am a resident in the Sacramento area so I chose is Ami Bera, the Representative of District 7, for the member of member The House of Representatives to research. Three issues that I have become recently interested in are issues pertaining to abortion, California’s drought and gun control.

My name is Kevin Keller and I live on Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina. I am a senior at Richland One Middle College and I am writing to you to express my concerns about the wellbeing of my family due to the poor conditions our roads are in. Senator, you represent South Carolina well albeit, it seems that you have become oblivious of the accidents occurring on the roads that you represent as well. These roads are slowly crumbling apart and leaving potholes and cracks big enough to cause tragic accidents in your state. South Carolinians and I are flustered with your lack of response to this issue and believe that right now, your roads need to be

Frank Pallone Jr. shows up on the website house.org when entering the zip code 08901. Frank Pallone, Jr was born on October 30, 1951, in Long Branch, NJ. Pallone was raised, attended public schools and grew up in Long Branch, where he still resides. Pallone attended local public schools and earned an academic scholarship in Middlebury College. After graduating from Middlebury in 1973, Pallone received his master 's degree in international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1974. He earned his law degree at Rutgers University in 1978. Moreover he has been admitted to the bar in four states, which are New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. Pallone is a Democratic member and New Jersey’s Sixth District representative for the United States House of Representatives. Before Pallone become a member of the United States House of Representatives, he began his political career in his home city of Long Branch. He was first elected as a council member of the Long Branch City Council in 1982, and served total six years till 1988. A year after he became a council member of the Long Branch City Council, he was first elected a New Jersey state senator from the 11th district, from 1984 to 1988. In 1983, “he defeated incumbent Republican State Senator Brian T. Kennedy 50%- 49%. In 1987, he won reelection with 60% of the vote, defeating Councilwoman Gerri C. Popkin of Neptune City”(Wallye). At that same year, he was elected as a United States

 Senator Marco Rubio   ® started 2009 campaign with an unexpected win in Florida. Senator Rubio has many accomplishments; Special Committee on Aging, Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Foreign relations, Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on small business and Entrepreneurship, He is focused on reforming the government and keeping Americans safe. Some of his top priorities are fighting poverty, higher education to all Americans and the VA Employee

A meet-and-greet and tour with State Representative Tana Senn of the 41st Legislative District on Thursday, November 17 at 10:00 am at the ICHS Bellevue Clinic. Rep.Senn, Vice Chair of General Government and Information Technology, and a committee member of the Appropriations Committee, and Early Learning and Human Services Committee.

Congressman Lynch has been elected to the eighth district in 2012, 2014 and 2016 (Lynch, 2013). Being a part of these committees make Congressman Lynch very important within the House of Representatives. With serving on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the primary investigative committee of the House of Representative, the Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security and the United States Agency for International Development, Congressman Lynch has focused on conducting meaningful oversight of political, economic and security developments abroad that would impact U.S. national security. Also as senior member of the House of Financial Services Lynch has helped craft the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. These actions has helped create consumer protections, has ended government bailouts of the financial system and imposed transparency and accountability requirements for the most complex markets (Lynch, 2015). With this much responsibility and importance within the House of Representatives his actions has lead to his multiple re elections.

Kim, S., & Lee, J. (2017, January). Citizen Participation and Transparency in Local Government: Do Participation Channels and Policy Making Phases Matter? In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Congressman Ruiz serves under the southeastern area of the 36th district of California. The district is located near two small towns called Hemet and Blythe California. The issue of access to state of the art hospitals and facilities would be high on the list of concerns for people living in this area. Small towns like these do not have the funding as the bigger districts. The less people living in the area, the less money is allocated to that district.

Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer represent the county of Los Angeles in the Senate (Hickey 128). Brad Sherman represents the congressional district of San Fernando Valley (the 30th district, or known as CA 30) in the House of Representatives.

I have been in Texas from ten months for pursuing my further education. The place where I am currently dwelling i.e. 3225 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas is numbered as district 16. 1 As per the research, I found that Don Huffines represents district 16 in the Texas senate. It is full of diverse population providing several opportunities to its citizens. 2 Around 846,307 people are living in district 16 in which 7.2% of the total population are below five years old, 17.1% belong to the age group from 5 to 17, 65.8% of the total population includes people of age from 18 to 64 and 9.8% are the age group above 65 years old.