NAME: Ian Hanchett, Florida
TITLE: Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and all associated reconciliation acts.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: United States, doctors, insurance providers, private citizens both with and without health care insurance.
SUMMARY: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed to improve the health of the US population by decreasing the uninsured population and lowering the cost of healthcare. Unfortunately, the bill will result in high cost to the taxpayers for a program that will decrease healthcare access while increasing the cost.
Proposal #486
Jul 8
Proposal #195
Jul 8
NAME: Jacob Smitley, Michigan
TITLE: A proposal to create a national conference to promote healthy lifestyles for young Americans.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Young people, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and state governments.
SUMMARY: “Along with fighting childhood obesity, the conference will also push against smoking and other bad habits that could lead to potentially dangerous situations.”
Proposal #533
Jul 8
NAME: Stella Marie Kibin, Marshall Islands
TITLE: US Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Countries that are Potential Nuclear Testing sites (Including the Marshall Islands), Countries that have Nuclear Weapons (including the US, which has over 5,110), and Countries that would like to have Nuclear Weapons.
SUMMARY: TBD
Proposal #26
Jul 8
NAME: Lexi Gibson, Texas
TITLE: A Constitutional Amendment to force the members of Congress and the President to forfeit their salary, on a per diem basis, for every day past the end of the fiscal year that a budget for that year remains unbalanced.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Congress, President, Constitution, National Debt, Economy
SUMMARY: “A Constitutional Amendment that forces the President and members of Congress to forfeit their salaries, on a per diem basis, for every day past the fiscal year that a budget remains unbalanced will provide not only this needed accountability, but also an incentive to ensure that the Federal outlays do not exceed the receipts at the end of each fiscal year.”
Proposal #202
Jul 8
NAME: Jack Johnson, Tennessee
TITLE: A proposal to institute a mandatory death penalty for prisoners over the age of 70, who are in jail without a chance of parole.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Prisons
SUMMARY: “Incarceration rates of the state and federal prisoners continued to rise. At midyear in 2003, the number of sentences inmates was 480 per 100,000 US residents, up from 476 per residents on December 31, 2002. … Overall, one out of every 140 US residents was incarcerated in prison or jail. And these numbers are only continuing to increase.”
Proposal #243
Jul 8
NAME: Sean Donohue, North Carolina
TITLE: Establishment of INSITE Clinics in major US cities.
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: The US Health care system and major urban hospitals, poverty rates, crime rates, overdose and HIV infection rates, urban police departments, National Institute of Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the US Federal Drug and Food Administration.
SUMMARY: “The INSITE Clinics strive to treat drug addicts as people that are simply sick, rather than as trash or lesser human beings. Dr. John Blatherwick of Vancouver Coastal Health simply states, ‘The reason people should care is… because people are dying.’”
Proposal #223
Jul 8
NAME: Forrest Rogers
TITLE: Restructure, Reform and Revise the Policies of Affirmative Action
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Education, Employment, Selected Processes
SUMMARY: “It is unjust for an upper class American of a minority status to be favored in selective processes over an impoverished member of the majority group. This policy may have once been justified by the social ills that minorities must overcome, but now the greater disadvantage is due to financial class. Society more fairly views all ethnicities and this equality is protected by standing legislation. Therefore, advantage should be given by economic status as opposed to race.
Proposal #302
Jul 8
NAME: Ameen Merchant, California
TITLE: To Implement an Automatic Government Stimulus Program
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: Average citizens, legislators, American businesses
SUMMARY: “When the economy is not doing well, most economists concur that some form of government spending should take place in order to alleviate the problem. However, in the present day, representatives worry about tying themselves to a stimulus package because it may affect future campaigns for re-election. Having a system in place that saves money and spends it wisely would prevent monetary flow during periods of financial stagnation and would allow for representatives to not receive negative publicity.”
Proposal #242
Jul 8
NAME: Kyle Leopard, North Carolina
TITLE: Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty in the United States
MAJOR AREAS TO BE AFFECTED: United States Coast Guard, International Seabed Authority, the environment, oil industry, freightliners, and marine life.
SUMMARY: “Because of the degradation of marine life on the high seas, the availability of certain fish has dwindled causing the price of these fish to rise because of scarcity, which hurts the Americans who cannot afford higher prices.”