The United States is divided into 435 congressional districts, four being in Kansas. Each with a population of about 710,000 individuals. Each district elects a representative to the House for a two-year term. Representatives are also called congressmen/congresswomen. The four Kansas representatives are Tim Huelskamp, Lynn Jenkins, Kevin Yoder, and Mike Pompeo. They are all four Republicans and represent the four different districts in Kansas. Tim has the first district, Lynn the second, Kevin the third and Mike the fourth. Harvey County is located in the fourth district. Tim Huelskamp was elected into office on January 5, 2011. He learned the value of hard work and responsibility working raising cattle, wheat, milo, soybeans, and other crops …show more content…
Growing up on a dairy farm near Holton, Kansas, Lynn Jenkins learned the values of hard work, keeping your word, and the importance of serving your community. Those are the same values that led her to public service and still guide her decisions as she represents the Second District of Kansas. Congresswoman Jenkins currently serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, the chief tax writing committee in the House of Representatives. As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, she serves on both the Health Subcommittee and Trade Subcommittee. During Congresswoman Jenkins’s time in Congress, she has developed a track record for supporting fiscally responsible public policy to promote job creation and economic growth, working to improve transparency in Congress and backing a strong national defense. She continues to oppose wasteful government spending and is working to reduce the record deficits and national debt. Congresswoman Jenkins is a Certified Public Accountant by profession and brings nearly 20 years of experience helping individuals and small businesses manage their finances to the House of Representatives. Jenkins graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and has two children, Hayley and …show more content…
He graduated first in his class from West Point in 1986 and then served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He also served with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the Fourth Infantry Division. After leaving active duty, Mike graduated from Harvard Law School having been an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mike later returned to his mother’s family roots in South Central Kansas and founded Thayer Aerospace, where he served as CEO for more than a decade providing components for commercial and military aircraft. He then became President of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment manufacturing, distribution, and service company. Mike serves on two major committees: Energy and Commerce, which oversees energy, health-care, manufacturing, and telecommunications, and the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees America’s intelligence-gathering efforts. In Congress, Mike has focused on freeing private enterprise to succeed as well as defending our individual Constitutional rights. Mike has been at the center of debates regarding fiscal responsibility and halting regulatory overreach, particularly with respect to production agriculture, and reducing the imposition of burdens on entrepreneurs and small businesses. Mike and his wife Susan have been active leaders in the community and are both involved in many activities in support of Susan’s alma
Kevin McCarthy is a Republican and Majority Leader in the House of Representatives. He has been in Congress for five terms, which is ten years. Recently, there have been rallies against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act Stimulus Package, and American citizens in Bakersfield, California want Kevin McCarthy, their representative, to fight to keep it.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was created by Henry Clay. This compromise would benefit both the Northern states and the Southern states. This compromise had occurred when the territory of Missouri wanted to become an official state. The only problem with this was that Missouri wanted to be a slave state.
Republican Louie Gohmert, currently serves as the representative for the first district of Texas, which includes 12 counties located in East Texas. Being first sworn into Congress on January 4, 2005, Gohmert is now proudly serving his seventh term as Representative. In his early years, Gohmert attended Texas A&M University where he received his undergraduate degree, while also being on active duty commitment to the Army. Afterwards, he attended Baylor School of Law and graduated as Class President with a numerous amount of awards from the Moot Court Society, in which he was also President. He now serves on many House committees and subcommittees in the House of Representatives. Including, Vice Chairman of the House Natural Resources
Congressman Steven Palazzo has been in office since the fifth of January in 2011. He is Congressman over the fourth district, which includes the Gulf Coast and Pine Belt. Steven Palazzo is a veteran of the National Guard, Certified Accountant, Republican, and a previous small business owner. He serves on a numerous of committees: Chairman of Subcommittee on Space, Vice Chairman Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Subcommittee on Research and Technology, and Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.
The Missouri Compromise has impacted America today greatly for many reasons. One of the few reasons include, “It marked the beginning of the … conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War.” (Encyclopædia Britannica, Missouri Compromise) Currently territories south of the Ohio River and the Mason Dixon Line were considered pro-slave states. A significant portion of Missouri is north of the Mason Dixon Line, but many citizens of Missouri were still slaveholders.
The “Transcript of Missouri Compromise (1820)” is a written copy of the Missouri Compromise. The primary source is divided between eight different sections, with each section stating an agreed term for Missouri to accommodate with. Section one states that people who live in the area involved in the Missouri territory may create a constitution and state government that will be accepted in to the union. In section two it states the boundaries of the new state and the circumstances it must following with the jurisdiction of the boarding rivers. Section three states the voting and right to be voted for qualifications along with day in which one may be voted in according to counties. Section four states rules and regulations of representatives
Kansas’s Motto is “Ad Astra Per Aspera “( translation: to the stars through difficulties). This ‘ catchphrase truly captures the can-do, all-may–be-conquered mantra that established hard-working, pioneering state.
The two house congress is compose of the House of representation, is based on population. The House of Representatives has 434 member, one from each district of the fifty states. In order to serve in House of representative, he or she must have to be 25 years old, a citizen for seven years and a resident of the state one wants to represent. Representation is determined by population. The senate has two senators from each state for a total of 100. To be a Senator, one must be at least 30 years old, a citizen for nine years and a resident of the state one wants to represent. Senators were chosen by the state legislature which meant they tend to be politically important members of the state’s elite class. However, this changed with the 17th amendment,
Wichita, Kansas is situated in Sedgwick County. The result was a 56.1% vote for Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton received 36.9% of the vote. Gary Johnson received 4.9% and Jill Stein received 2.1%. Similarly, the overall Kansas state vote was as follows: 57.2% (Trump), 36.1% (Clinton), 4.7% (Johnson), and 2% (Stein). This is from both Politico and Wichita newspapers. The significance of an overwhelming vote for Trump reflects the correlation to economic divides, as voters may feel attached to the ideals of a better economy.
This takes us to the necessity of speaking about the collision of the north and south interest in the Kansas territory. Decades before the outbreak of the civil war thousands of Indians were pushed to go to the northwest by the white settlers who expanded west ward after the American Revolution. After that, during the Jacksonian era, other Indian tribes of different backgrounds were obliged by force to abandon their mother lands Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri in order to move to the Indian Territory Kansas. These events forced the encounter of whites with red Indians who established a very strategic trade of fur making the Kawsmouth
On November 2, 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected as the 45th Governor of Wisconsin. He was sworn in on January 3, 2011, and immediately set the state on a path toward economic revival, fiscal order, and government reform. He inherited a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit, $800 million worth of unpaid bills, and the loss of more than 133,000 jobs from the previous administration.
Marty Knollenberg, a GOP State Senator from Troy, Michigan, is learning this lesson first hand. According to Bossip, this last Thursday, Knollenberg, was addressing an education committee in Lansing, Michigan, along with the state's school reform officer, Natasha Baker and Karen McPhee,
In the book What’s the Matter With Kansas by Thomas Frank, a phenomenon has been happening which many people do not understand. In the sixties, Kansans were voting for democrats during the election. This was seen as typical and normal since democrats are meant to help lower and middle class people. This did not stay for long since shortly after Kansans started to vote for republicans which goes against the belief of what is assumed. Republicans are known for trying to lower the tax on the upper class and are against of many things things such as abortion. The author tries to understand why in person the views that Kansans have match with democrats yet when they vote it is for republicans. The reason this is happening is due to religion.
Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk bed go to the Sternberg Museum in Hays.Michael J. Everhart is a shark hunter and he found a shark skull which was under sand and gravel The chalk was a good material for trapping and preserving
What is the political dilemma presented by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its role in bringing on the civil war? The reason for this act was railroad expansion. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the most essential law in the United States prior to American Civil War. The act sets in motion events that led directly to the conflict over slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act may have been the single most remarkable act leading to the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the third and last of the series of compromises it was put into a law prior to the United States Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise, which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. Fighting and violent events would become so terrible.