Ben Cardin

Hayworth, William Life is not about where you started I began to know hardship at a very early age of 2 months; I was removed from my family and placed into foster care. My dad divorced my mom shortly after I was born and never looked back. I spent the next 15 years moving between foster homes. I became a bitter and rebellious child. I was kicked out of all the middle schools in my local school district in Detroit Michigan and placed in a mental hospital. I was mad at the world and felt…

The desire for political and civil rights have driven numerous societies to revolt against an oppressive rule in hopes to achieve a more democratic lifestyle. Thus, when Middle Easterners began becoming more fed up with oppressive regimes, the desire for a revolution emerged. The political outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings were different for each country involved. While civil war arose in some countries, other countries did not have substantial revolts; there were even states that became so…

I am requesting your support to repeal the Medicare therapy cap. This affects Medicare beneficiaries who most need rehabilitation services, like patients who have experienced strokes, Parkinson’s, amputations, spinal cord injuries, or osteoporosis. In 1997, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act to enact a yearly financial limit on physical therapy and speech-language pathology services, and another cap on occupational therapy for all outpatients. This action’s only purpose was to save money…

National Security Strategy and China Arthur Lykke, of the Army War College, modeled strategy with his simple National Security Strategy model. Lykke defined the pillars of National strategy as the ends (objectives), ways (methods used), and means (resources available) on which military and, ultimately, National Strategy are balanced. Imbalance of any pillar incurs strategic risk. Suitability, feasibility, and acceptability are the criteria from the pillars are evaluated. Suitability: can we…

Minimum wage has been one of the most contentious battles in economic policy in the United States. In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA was established to give workers fair workplace rights, including the introduction of the federal minimum wage. Today, minimum wage is very debatable as to whether an increase would benefit or do harm to the United States. There is a plethora of research to the controversial issue of minimum wage…

Ben Cardin, the U.S Senator of Maryland have stated, “Every time we’ve increased the minimum wage, we’ve seen a growth in jobs, not a loss of jobs.” This is simply saying that ever that since the increase in minimum wage, there has been a growth throughout…

Impact of Congressional Resolutions on Syrian Chemical Attack in 2013 Introduction The Syrian crisis has led to massive loss of life and destruction of property as government and rebel opposition forces fight each other to take control of different points within the country. International attention and concern has grown over rampant violation of human rights in Syria especially by government forces that deliberately attack its civilians with military weapons. However, Ghouta attack of august…

These agencies and their “varying rules and standards led to certain entities not being regulated at all, with others subject to less oversight than their peer financial firms organized under different charters” (Morrison & Foerster, 2010, p. 6). After the financial crisis, analysts pointed to the “many regulatory failures” and gaps in oversight as the reason unethical and illegal practices were overlooked or ignored (Madrick, 2010, para. 3). As a result, the provisions set out by…