APetersen

SB2 APetersen, Republican

The state that I am representing is Texas and the representitive that I am most like is Joe Barton. [|www.joebarton.com]


 * __Five interesting facts about Texas[[image:http://jessesublett.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/joe_barton090318.jpg align="left"]]__**


 * 1.** Has 215 cities with a population of 10,000 or more


 * 2.** 10% of Texas is covered by forests


 * 3.** Has a population of 24 million people


 * 4.** It has 23, 292 farms with 100 acres or more


 * 5.** 70% of the populaton lives withiin 200 miles of Austin the capitol of Texas


 * __Five Interesting Facts about Texas that Relate to my Issues__**


 * 1.** On estimate half of the immigrants in Texas are illegal


 * 2.** About 75% of citizens in Texas own guns


 * 3.** Most citizens in Texas own guns for sport shooting


 * 4.** Biomass is the third largest energy sorce in Texas


 * 5.** Half of Texas's population is Mexican

I think pass my bill for many reasons. But the main reasons is because it will cut down by a lot on the illegal immigrants getting into the country. This will lower the ammout of drugs getting into the country with illegal immmigrants also it will cut down on crime and there will be more jobs for Americans. That is why my bill should be passed.
 * __Why my Bill should be passed__**

The major problem in our state is that a large portion our immigrant population is illegal. We are asking poeple in our state to turn in anyone that they know of that is illegal and that will help out in the long run but we need to do something now and rid this from Texas quickly. One of the solutions that I have is to increace the size of the border police, that way no immigrant will be able to pass through the border without proper papers.
 * __Issue #1: Immigration:__**

Even though in Texas the third most used energy sorce in Texas is biomass still the most used method of producing energy is fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is poluting our nation and the rest of the world, but it is also slowly depleating our countrys natural recorces. I think that over the course of twenty to thirty years we should slowly decreace the use of fossil fuels and increase the use of renewable recorces. This will help stop polution in Texas and in our nation.
 * __Issue #2: Enviroment and Energy:__**

Just about 75% of the citizens in Texas own firearms. So we need to lay down some strict boundries on what firearms citizens can and cant have and what kind of features on firearms they can and cant have. I belive that automatic firearms should not be allowed neither should high power semi automatic rifles. Also guns should not be allowed to have a larger magazine size than seven. Also absoultly no military grade firearms should be used to civilans. These are just some of the laws that should be put in place. All these laws will help keep the population of Texas safe.
 * __Issue #3: Gun Control:__**


 * __10 Sources:__**
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