United States Senate election in New York

rights and women rights are human rights once for all" (Clinton) during the U.N conferences set in Beijing, China. During her time as the first lady, Hillary Clinton gave this speech on Women Rights as it was leading concern to her. Furthermore, the historical significance, delivery, organization, and persuasive techniques were apparent across her speech. The major historical significance at the time of Clinton 's speech was important factor and event in which influenced her speech impact. Set in a controversial time, the speech itself timed in with China 's recent arrestment of Harry Wu, Chinese-American activist. Concerns from Congress, White House Administrations, and State Department feared that Clinton 's presence and critical speech would be seen as a threat to China and United States ' already weak diplomatic ties (Chozick). While this was an initial concern, Hillary Clinton presented herself on the 4th U.N Conferences on Women with the hopes of promoting and establishing a change. The speech itself was about Women Rights, while the intended audience was aimed towards everyone specifically lawmakers or those in political power to change the status quo. In this case, the delegates from around the world that gathered around the podium. It is evident that societal, culture, and chronological events had influenced on Clinton’s speech. While it may not have influenced China’s politics due to censorship, it did resonate with Women across the globe. It…

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democratic Candidate running for the position of the President of the United States. The former first lady born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago Illinois, has always been an active advocate of the party. As a young woman she campaigned for the then Republican candidate nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964 and after listening to a powerful speech by Reverend Martin Luther Ling Jr she entered into public service and became a Democrat in 1968. Hilary graduated from Yale…

covers Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn’s response against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s accusations of how the Republican Party is attempting to create Medicare reductions with substantial tax cuts thought the new tax reform bill. He asserts that the Republican Party did not alter any of the entitlement programs of Medicare and that Pelosi’s statements are false. In addition, Cornyn mentions how the Democratic Party has been completely unwilling to cooperate with Republicans in drafting…

He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.”(Feldmann, 2015) Bernard Sanders was born September 8, 1941 in Brooklyn New York. His Father Eli Sanders, was a Jewish Polish immigrant that worked as a paint salesman. His mother Dorothy Sanders was born in New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. Dorothy was a housewife.…

The elections of 2016, taking place in just about a month from now, are monumental for the hundreds of millions of people who consider themselves American citizens. A new president will be inaugurated and take office in January of the new year for the first time since 2009, and both major political parties will be vying for crucial seats in the United States Senate. Both races have been brewing for quite some time, but it has become evident who the options for each seat have become. Obviously,…

New York, the fourth most populated state in the United States of America, is hopping with excitement for the political race for US Senate in the 9th district; due to the candidates evoking thoughts on education. First, the Democratic nominee, the incumbent for the last 18 years, Chuck Schumer. Chuck was born in Brooklyn, New York and has grown up in the city area his whole life and still lives there today. He graduated from Harvard Law school in 1974, and then right on, in 1980, he was elected…

George Pataki, served as the fifty-third Governor of New York from 1995 to 2006, a member of the Republican Party and an American lawyer who was elected as Mayor of his hometown, Peekskill, then being elected into State Assembly, and onto the State Senate. Pataki ran for Governor in 1994 against Mario Cuomo and winning by three points. On May 28, 2015 Pataki announced his nomination for the President of the United States. Bernie Sanders, born in Brooklyn, New York, and elected as mayor of…

was a Senator and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (Lerner, Kira). Biden stated that if President H. W. Bush nominated an individual to replace a retiring justice that, "the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over." (Emery, C. 2016) Republicans, mainly Mitch McConnell point to this as evidence that nominations should not be considered during an election year. Mitch…

Sage Gurney Book Review: A More Perfect Constitution When I first realized A More Perfect Constitution by Larry J. Sabato was about rewriting the United States Constitution, I thought it was the last book I would want to read. I am glad I was required to read this book for a class, because I learned so much more than I thought I would. A More Perfect Constitution is a very well thought out and researched book. The author, Larry J. Sabato, approaches the idea of rewriting the constitution…

ambassadors whose nominations had been, for months, blocked or stalled by lawmakers (Obama Uses Power of Appointment, Sidestepping Senate). President Obama has stated that "Senators had blocked or refused to consider the confirmations of the nominees for various reasons, including questions about their qualifications" (Obama Uses Power of Appointment, Sidestepping Senate). In the nomination fight over Mr. Cole, President Obama 's nomination of whom to install as the deputy attorney general for…