111th United States Congress

As per distributed media reports, work pioneers, including authorities at the AFL-CIO, Change to Win organization, and others, are making entry of the Representative Free Decision Act ("EFCA") their top administrative need in the new 111th Congress set to start in January 2009. In its present structure, EFCA would adjust the National Work Relations Act ("NLRA") to: (1) Require the National Work Relations Board ("NLRB") guarantee a union based upon a dominant part card check (rather than ensuring

First of all, there is me, we also have someone in our band named Brody Bauer, and we just needed one more person in our band but we couldn’t find anyone! So one day we had "tryouts", our "tryouts" did not have very many people there so we put signs up that night for the next morning and there was so many people there. We were looking for the perfect person for it, but then they realized our age and about half of them left, at this time we were only 11. After the interviews, we finally found someone

would later appoint Brat as a member of his Advisory Board of Economists this development would get Brat’s metaphorical “foot” in the door of politics.(Brat David,2017) From 2005 to 2011, Brat worked as a special legislative assistant to Virginia state senator Walter Stosch in the area of higher education. In 2006 he was appointed by Democratic governor Tim Kaine to serve on a bipartisan economic advisory council. (Brat David,2017) In 2011, Brat announced he was running for the Virginia House of

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a highly controversial act of the United States government commonly referred to as ObamaCare. Designed to “ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care,” (Patient Protection) this bill has received a large amount of opposition for a variety of reasons, but it is also widely supported, therefore garnering it attention from interest groups. Many interest groups, including religious organizations, attempt to change laws and

the Congress as House Joint Resolution 42 on March 31, 2009. The lead sponsor was Rep. Pete Hoekstra. “The amendment contained five sections. First, the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right. Second, the parental right to direct education includes the right to choose public, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one’s child. Third, neither the United States nor any

Polarization in Congress: A Dichotomy of Unity and Division within the Legislative Branch POLARIZATION OVERVIEW: Polarization occurs when members of both political parties consistently vote along ideological lines. Ideological differences in Congress today are quite staggering. Congressmen have increasingly been moving away from moderate stances and adhering more to party ideologies. The issue with polarization arises when there are two incredibly differing ideologies where both sides feel

territory of the United States. The islands of Puerto Rico were acquired by the United States in 1898, where Spain ceded the islands to the U.S. In 1917, the Jones Act declared Puerto Rico to be an “organized but incorporated” territory of the United States, and granted US citizenship to all the residents who wanted it. An “unincorporated territory”, according to the US Supreme Court Insular Cases, of the Unites States is ‘a territory appurtenant and belonging to the United States, but not a part

to fully understand how they were able to reach our possession. The uproar of clothing made in sweatshops overseas by under aged laborers fills the newspapers and protest are seen worldwide on the issue, but the truth of the matter is that the United States have a child labor issue right here in our own backyard and a simple internet video, Veggies Gone Wild!!! by the Human Rights Watch organization on YouTube led to research a scenario that is not usually considered as middle class families sit down

Assessment of the Legislative Roles in Health Policy Introduction Implementing health policy in the United States combines powerful legal, ethical, and societal factors that can have lasting ramifications for everyone involved. Throughout history, various campaigns to insure the United States citizenry have faced defeat on numerous occasions. During the Truman era, the idea of national insurance gained momentum until Senator Taft likened it to communism and socialism, thus dooming it on all fronts

The United States government system is very interesting and complexly designed. The state and federal government is a mirror of each other when it comes to the generics of the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch, however, internally the state government has major differences on how the branches are conducted. Throughout this paper we will discuss the greatest difference between state and federal, which is the state cannot change or remove laws passed by the federal government