Senator Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden was was born in 1949 in the small town of Wichita, Kansas in which he lived under the roof of two Jewish immigrants who fled from Nazi Germany. Wyden grew up in Palo Alto, California and he later joined the Palo Alto varsity basketball team. In his college years he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later transferred to Stanford University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the year of 1971. 
    Wyden withal accommodated as the director of the Oregon Legal Accommodations Center for the Elderly, which was a nonprofitable law accommodation. In the fall of 1980, Wyden ran for the house of representatives and crushed his opponent assuming his position as the senator of Oregon. 

Senator Wyden fixates on many key issues that the US is currently facing such as healthcare, the environment and maintaining a free internet. As Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Wyden withal has perpetuated to push for a national energy policy that fixates on domestic engenderment, renewability, carbon reduction and protections for energy consumers.  

Committees:

• Committee on the Budget
• Committee on Finance
• Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
• Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
• Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness (Chairman)
• Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Chairman)
• As Chairman, Senator Wyden is an ex-officio member on all subcommittees.
• Cull Committee on Astuteness
• Special Committee on Aging
• Joint Committee On Taxation

     
Questions for the Senator?
a) What made you want to run for the Senator of Oregon?
b) How do you keep up with all the committees that you are involved in?
c) Why didn't you ride out your basketball scholarship if you were good enough?

H.R. Haldeman

General Watergate Source:
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H.R. Haldeman:

Harry Robbins Haldeman was born on October 27th, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. He served as the White House Chief of Staff while President Richard Nixon was in term. Haldeman is famously known for his involvement with the watergate scandal in which he was imprisoned as a result of his acts. He was tried for accounts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and perjury. When Haldeman was younger he joined the Naval Reserve but was denied any warfare or active combat. After he served his minimum years in the Navy he left and attended University of Redlands college and many more colleges after until he settled down at UCLA. In 1962, Haldeman ran President Nixon's campaign for governor until Nixon was elected to be our president in 1968. Nixon then chose his trusty side kick to be the Chief of Staff. In 1975 Haldeman was convicted and was sentenced to serve 18 months in Lompoc Federal Prison. He was later released from prison in 1978, and later that year he co-authored a novel called The Ends of Power. In the discussion of the book, Haldeman had used this phrase, "Bay of Pigs," which he said was a direct reference to the assassination of JFK. In his later years he began suffering many abdominal infections and soon he began rejecting the treatment which later caused his death on November 12, 1993. 

Essay #3 The Constitutional Meaning Is Changing

One formal method for integrating an amendment to the constitution is with the approbation of two thirds of both the House and the Senate. The proposed amendment must then be ratified by three fourths of the state legislature. Another method for fixing the constitution requires the supposed amendment to be voted for by two thirds of both the House and the Senate, same as afore. But the amendment must then be ratified by three fourths of state ratifying conventions. Informal methods commonly include rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court via a judicial review. This is where the Court rules on cases brought afore them predicated on today’s perception of the constitution. Brown v. Board of Inculcation in 1954 is an example. In this case, the Supreme Court overruled the precedent findings from Plessy v. Ferguson and eliminated the “separate but equal” doctrine, finding it unconstitutional. This was not a formal amendment process; however, it altered the definition of the 14th Amendment. An executive order by the President is another informal method. During wartime, the president has the potency to make decisions that transmute the construal of the Constitution. In WWII FDR’s confined all the Japanese Americans that lived in the western parts of the U.S. believing that they may be a threat to the country. This breaches the 5th Amendment, however no formal amendment was ever drafted. Informal methods are utilized more often than formal methods because they are more expeditious and more facile. The formal amendment process was designed to be lengthy and arduous to obviate dispensable and undesired alterations. It is littered with checks and balances and some formal amendment forms have historically never even been utilized. With informal methods, the regime can cut corners to expedite the process in times of need, albeit that was not what the founding fathers had pristinely envisioned.

Essay #2 Political Participation

There are quite a few different forms of political participation that can range from simply voting, to protesting. Organizing or participating in a protest is an unconventional, yet efficacious designates of political participation. If it is done correctly, it sanctions for the public as well as a desired political party to aurally perceive your concerns or opinions on a topic rather clear. Organization of a group to protest the same cause is additionally benign because it is able to depict the fortification the cause has. For example, if thousands of people amass to protest the same conception, such as the occupy wall street protests, the regime is able to visually perceive the mass amount of people that support that notion.
     In todays technological world, campaigning is facile, yet expensive. It is estimated that hundreds of millions if not billion of dollars are spent across both federal and verbalize elections. Despite cockamamy expenditures, there is mundanely a link between financial backing and victory. Fiscal donations are a great way to assure that the party or cause that you fortify or benefits you is put in potency. If a company stands to gain if a certain party is in potency, they may make an astronomically immense donation to that party to avail in their hopeful prosperity. Furthermore, through the utilization of a 501-C4, a company or individual can fortify a candidate or party anonymously.

Essay #1

 The House of Representatives was the most closely tied part of the government to its citizens because this branch allowed its citizens to vote for the leaders they wanted. This allowed the people to vote for the representative that they really wanted to get the things they want. This created a much stronger bond between the people and its representatives.

   The Constitution regulated the majority rule by allowing one branch of gov to be affected by majority vote. This prevented one powerful group with checks and balances from taking over the government, and it also limited what the government could do. The constitution wouldn't allow the states to do many things such as regulating commerce without regard to how the majority voted.

 In the beginning when the primary elections were made, the wealthier and more powerful people had less power than they did before. The power in turn shifted to the middle class people. Leaders would choose a representative that could meet their needs and expectations to make them and their bond stronger. When the 17th amendment was created it allowed the majority of each state to be able to pick two representatives and each representatives would debate, structure, and execute a presentation with the information given to them by the people. The presentation would consist of the peoples' wants, needs, desires, and ideas. 
 
   There are quite a few different ways to become a part of the political process. One way would be to run for office yourself. An easier way to get what you want across would be to take part in public political demonstrations, such as holding signs on the corner of the street with fellow comrades who share the same belief. 

Ideology Survey

I generally incline to take a more liberal stance on issues regarding politics. My household is gun free and we believe that homosexuality is not an issue, we support it but do not attend or follow homosexual issues. We also believe that abortion is not a right to be taken away, it's the parent who brought made the decision to bring a life into this world, but it's also their decision to take it out of this world especially if it their own. In the survey we took yesterday i was ranked as a minivan moderate. WIth my rather straight forward liberal views, i am somewhat surprised that i received such a moderate ranking. I don't believe that religion has anything to do with the way people should deal with politics. I also believe that guns are also another human right that needs a little more rules and regulations therefore we might be able to slow down or slim down the amounts of school shootings and things along those lines. It is my opinion that regime should avail those in need, whether that is financially or medically. Despite my democratic support, i do believe it is very consequential to maintain a vigorous military to fore fend our country. Regime spending, in my opinion, is obligatory to our moral obligation to bulwark americans and that raising taxes on the affluent would be a great fiscal plan. I also cerebrate exploring "green" energy and believe that it would be quite beneficial to our environment. Overall i believe that my ranking was just about right with a few minor faults.

Are public opinion polls a benefit or a curse to American politics? What influence do they have on campaigns? On governing? What do critics point to as the key weaknesses of public opinion polls? Do you agree? Explain. 

Public opinion polls have their pros and their cons that pertain to American politics. In some ways they can accurately depict what the public thinks of a certain subject; however, they can be perceived as much more intelligent than their realism. In campaigns they hand out political power and  help to make the decisions of choosing a campaign leader. These public opinion polls have an  impact on the way a state or district is governed as a conclusion of the popularity in the polls. Critics have said that polls are generally changing very quickly from day to day, and ever so often a small sampled amount of voters are involved in a poll. I do accede, but only if the majority of the population is not involved in a general poll, and only if the polls are 100% spontaneous and desultory; they do not constitute a formal vote. and thus can not be utilized as such.