Lobbying in the United States

that the Pipeline would cause the United States to increase its dependence on foreign oil. In addition to the numerous environmental concerns, such as oil spills and water contamination, there is concern about the “current eminent domain laws and federal and state regulations will manage the pipeline’s construction.” In January of 2014, the United States Department of the State issued an executive summary of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Within the summary, the State Department listed off various…

lobby for stronger drug and immigration laws along with longer sentences to accompany these laws. These new laws result in the United States having five percent of the world population but housing twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. (Liptak, 2008) The effects of lobbying mean that as a country we lock up more people than any other country. The United States as of 2013 has 1,574,741 people incarcerated. Of these inmates forty-five percent were charged with a non-violent crime. (U.S.…

Movement and the Cold War The Civil Rights Movement in the United States coexisted with Cold War and the anti-colonial movement in Asia and Africa. From the ending of WWII, in which African Americans and some Whites were determined not to have what they’ve seen in Germany happen in the U.S., to the beginning years of the Cold War, the African American Freedom Struggle advanced by developments. These developments included legalism, lobbying, Black labor unions that involved labor and social…

influence in constituency with the candidate when it comes to making decisions on certain policies and movements. This allows interest groups to have a hand in policy making without even holding a particular office themselves. Interest groups use lobbying tactics to gain influence in policy making by hiring professional advocates to argue specific pieces of legislation usually in the house…

healthcare in his platform. Many presidents had pushed for the idea of healthcare. In 1965, President Johnson was the first to successfully introduce Medicare to America. This was the very first successful issuance of a type of healthcare plan for the United States. Similar to the ACA, in 1993 the Clinton Administration was working for a healthcare…

Simulation Report (Russia) The UN Security Council in class simulation was a sufficient interdictory to the process of international mediation and dialogue. Students representing the participating nations were able to engage in dialogue while lobbying for their nations cause. In this process it became very clear from the on set that the five nations on the UN Security Council who had the authority to vote on and veto resolutions held the most power and leverage over the simulation . Therefore…

groups were granted the right to vote. Now, there is increasing debate as to whether convicted felons should be allowed the right to vote both during and after their sentencing. Many states have laws that prohibit this, but they have proved only to be detrimental to American democracy. Therefore, it is time for these states to repeal their disenfranchisement laws in the name of human rights and liberty. Voting is a right that every U.S. citizen enjoys when they finally turn 18. A fundamental…

arrested for drunk driving was George Smith in London in 1897. In 1910, New York became one of the first states to create the no drinking and driving laws. By the 1930’s, National Safety Council had created tests to determine the level of intoxication of a person. In 1938, 0.15 was the first legal limit for BAC (blood alcohol concentration). Around the 70’s drunk driving laws became stricter due to lobbying from the groups MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and SADD (Students Against Drunk…

Midwest, the United States, and the rest of the world. Our world relies heavily on fossil fuels to power our everyday actions. Driving, cooking, heating homes. Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing. A revolutionary advancement in the collection of natural gas. The best part about it, America is sitting on top of biggest untapped pockets of it in the world. Potentially giving America a new seat of power on the world stage. Although the process is new and untested, is it worth the risk? For the state…

Privatized Prison System With the United States being the land of the free, you would expect to see very low incarceration rates, but this isn’t the case. Crime rates in the American metropolis areas are blown completely off of the scale when compared to other countries around the world. Which leads to the question, “ why does the United States incarcerate more people than any other country?” through the duration of this essay I will attempt to reveal and provide possible solutions to the…