United States Senate

some states chose to elect through caucus’ which is almost like an open debate where each candidate is represented by a crowd of people. Each citizen must physically get up and move to their candidates corner of the room. If someone says something and you chose to switch corners, you may, by physically moving to the other side of the room. By the end of a given time the people in each corner are counted and the corner with the most people has won the…

Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy were both candidates and presidents at incredibly pivotal time periods in history. As such they faced a wide range of rhetorical obstacles during their candidacy and time as presidents. A rhetorical obstacle is some outside force that can limit a rhetors’ main purpose or goal. A shared obstacle faced by both candidates was that of identity. Identity becomes an obstacle when a rhetors’ audience does not share “common goals/background, beliefs, values, etc.” (1)…

different cultures (Johnson, Lenartowicz, & Apud, 2006, p. 529). The United States is becoming more and more culturally diverse by the day. Most people would think that politicians are great at intercultural communication because of their line of work. President Barack Obama is a great example of an effective intercultural communicator. He served as United States Senator for four years and has been serving as President of the United States for the seven years. Through all of his…

Can activist, more specifically community activists, successfully transition to a politician? – holding community interest over self interest and ensure the community is the creator and not object of policy. In the New York Times: Room for debate opinion section Bob Kerry, former governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator, defines both terms activist and politician. “An activist is someone who organizes and acts for the purpose of changing a public policy or law. A politician is someone who seeks…

thing. Therefore, we need laws to protect them. We’ve seen too many astonishing news of sexual harassment among public figures, in Government, in Hollywood, nearly every corner of our state. We have laws against sexual harassment in some of those fields, but it’s time for us to regulate it in state Capitol. State legislators who has been advocating for equal rights, equal treatment for employers and minorities, should also practice such equality in their own workplace. As said by Meledez, “I…

The United States military is known throughout the world. The problem here at home is the amount of money that the military is spending annually. The only way that congress wants to fix this is to dramatically decrease the size of the military, and reduce the overall troop counts. The United States’ military budget cuts are necessary if the number of soldiers is not decreased. The U.S. spends the most money on its military, and the overall size of our military is enormous. The United States…

Consisting of a total of 538 electors the Electoral College of the United States of America is the organization that elects, every four years, the President and Vice President. The Founding Fathers of America, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, among many others, established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in the late 1700’s, whom the Congressional Digest claims was entrenched “as a compromise between election of the President by Congress and election by direct…

How would you feel if you no longer had to correspond with other state representatives to make nutritious food, such as vegetables, a safe and accessible food staple? Children would develop healthy eating habits, and parents would not have to worry about providing essential foods for the dinner table. What if this became a reality? As a senator I realize that you are busy making laws for our State at the capitol, but this issue is just or even more important than the ones you deal with on a…

League of Nation the United States of America not being apart of the organization was a huge deficiency because the legitimacy and power the United States had. Why was the United States not apart from the League of Nations? President Woodrow Wilson would have had to convince the Senate to approve of the U.S. joining the League of Nations and at the time the United States practiced a policy of isolationism, the belief that they should stay out of foreign affairs. With the United States practicing…

who meets with the majority leader to discuss prevalent issues in the country; they usually work very close to one another. The job of minority whip is to maintain communication between the minority leader and its members. The minority party in the Senate has very similar tasks as the House of Representatives, they have a minority leader who also works very close to the majority leader, and then they elect a whip…