KTKondik

Representative Kate Kondik State of Virginia Republician [|Eric Cantor]

INTERESTING FACTS:
 * 1) Became the 10th state to enter the union on June 25, 1788.
 * 2) Seven Presidents were buried in Virginia such as: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Tyler, James Monroe, William Taft, John Kennedy.
 * 3) Size in land area is 39,594 square miles
 * 4) Virginia is known as "The birthplace of America"
 * 5) More than half the battles that were fought in the Civil War took place in Virginia.

ISSUE RELATED FACTS:
 * 1) Beginning in 2011 children will have the option for a full time virtual learning
 * 2) Virginia high and middle schools are fully accredited if students reach the pass rate of 70%
 * 3) Schools don't test kids according to race or ethnicity.
 * 4) Child identification kits; child protection kits
 * 5) Nutrition and physical activity best practices database.

3 IMPORTANT ISSUES:

__death penalty:__ I believe that the death penalty should be approved. If someone is responsible for taking the lives of multiple people, it us only a fair punishment for the government to take their life from them. Also i do not think that the criminal should have the decision to stay their life in jail because they are just beginning to waste the money and space of the jails that need to be used for other crimes that are taking place.

__illegal immigration:__ I believe that illegal immigration is an issue because they are taking away job opportunities away from the people that our actually living under our government and America loses money on taxes.

__environment:__ I believe that the government should make taking care of the environment more seriously. we currently have a high amount of pollution taking place and could use more help of the residents to be recycling and to not waste paper items. Also we need to be cautious about cutting down trees in the forest for more paper items because it is taking the lives of many animals living in the wild, some are even becoming extinct.

[[HB65|BILL: The bill that I am writing for Mock Congress is under the issue of education. This bill proposes that students in middle-high school should not be given a certain amount of homework every night so they can be given more time to focus on studying for tests, finding time to get out and get exercise to fight obesity, relieve stress so they do not have to worry about completing all work, and with the less amount of work to do kids can get to bed earlier so they are prepared for the next day.

]] link to this bill: BILL65

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