JVonRoden

JvonRoden

Jannick von Roden, West Virginia, Democrat

The Congressperson that I most agreed with from the State of West Virginia is [|Earl Ray Tomblin], who is the current president of the West Virginia Senate. He is the person I most agreed with because he has made lots of important decisions that I even thought about including in our bill.

The five most interesting facts about West Virginia are the following:

1. It has 30 representatives 2. It was one of the states that seceeded in 1861 3. The delegates that opposed secession formed their own government 4. The first permanent White Settlement on Mill Creek was established by Morgan Morgan 5. 75% of the state's area is covered by natural resources like oil, natural gas, and hardwood forests

Now I am going to demonstrate the five most interesting about my state that relate to Environment and Energy:

1. The mission of the West Virginia Environmental Council is to faciliate communication and cooperation among citizens in promoting environmental protection in West Virginia 2. Different groups of people in West Virginia try to help maintain the environment by particpating in several projects 3. The State of West Virginia funded over $1,741,000 total for environmental purposes 4. People in West Virginia try to encourage other people to do what they are doing to spread the help used for the Environment 5. Several industries in West Virginia make special offers to help people save money on things that are harmful to the environment such as fossil fuels, oil, and nonrenewble resources

Here are the three problems that I am the most concerned about:

Issue Number 1 Energy and Environment

Position: I think we should invest our money in things that can help us save our environment like windmills and things that enable to use more solar and hydroelectrical energy. By doing this, a lot of people would get jobs, which will provide an immediate boost to the U.S. economy. This will also help other countries fight global warmong by taking our actions as an example for theirs. In my opinion, this should happen as quickly as possible, otherwise, it will be too late.

Issue Number 2 Criminal Justice

Position: I am against the death penalty because it seems unfair to me to pay for a crime with one's own life. It was found that an average inmate had to spend 13-30 years on death row. Croug Haney, a proffesor of psychology, said," People on death row live under the threat of death, which is of extraordinary psychological trauma, and they are denied most of the ways that people make life in prison more tolerable; meaningful social acticity, programming of any kind, activities." U.S. Supreme Court Justice John- Paul Stevens, in a case involving a prisoner who had spent 29 years on death row wrote," The delay itself subjects death row inmates to decades of especially severe dehumanizing conditions of confinement."

Issue Number 3 Reproductive and Personal Rights

Postition: I think cloning should be forbidden in all parts of the United States because it may damage or even kill the individual being cloned. Also, every person on this planet should be its own individual and should not be replaced by a clone. Another thing that should be forbidden in the majority of this country is assisted suicide. Unless people suffer from very great pain and really don't want to live anymore, just to escape this terribleness, I see no reason why the most valuable thing on earth should be taken away, other than by its natural cause; a human's life.

My Bill - SB18 The purpose of my bill is the invest in clean energy sources such as wind and solar energy to help keep the environment clean and help break the addiction to foreign oils. It will also help preserve the fossil fuels be decreasing our use of them.

I researched all of my information that can be found on this page and the page of our group's bill on the following sites:

"Obama, Barack: Address to joint session of Congress (2009)." //American History//. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 8 May 2010. .