Model Senate
Project Description:
For this project we looked into how our government fucntions by each playing a role of a sentor. We were eached tasked with writing legistlation from our senators view and learning how they stood on political issues. We started on committees and amended our bills. After this we moved to our final exhibition where we voted on the revised bills. In the end one of the two passed the senate and the other one failed to pass. The one that passed was vetoed by the president.
Animas High School Model Senate
Committee: Climate Change Committee Principal Authors: Michael B. Enzi
(Perrin Kileen) Bernie Sanders (George McQuinn)
Bill No: 1 Submission Date: 11/14/2016
Title of Bill: Segregation of Animas High School by Age Class
Be It Enacted By The Animas High School Model Congress
Preamble: Whereas underclassmen have been a long term problem, since they continually deface school property, smoke mad dope on school grounds, litter trash throughout the campus and obstruct hallways with loud and annoying clusters, and since upperclassmen deserve the right to scooter and skateboard freely in the west building, uninterrupted by younger student’s frolicking.
SECTION 6: Underclassmen may be defined as both male and female students who have not yet completed their 2nd year of secondary education.
SECTION 6: Allow underclassmen, as defined in SECTION 1, to use their west building bathrooms, and only their west building bathrooms, to urinate and wash their hands
SECTION 6: Let underclassmen be denied access to the east building and it’s luxuries including the espresso machine, triple water fountain, and upper lot parking
SECTION 6: Let the security of underclassmen be ensured through strict measures of law and order, by targeting “HotSpots,” defined as locations used by younger students to smoke mad dope.
Sub-SECTION A: Let 15 security cameras, paid for by fundraising done by freshman and sophomore students, be installed facing the west building and targeting previously defined “HotSpots”
Sub-SECTION B: Let the west building be protected by a drug dog
Sub-SECTION C: Let the underclassmen be watched by two police officers
Sub-SECTION A: Let underclassmen be conditioned for seasonal winters and the imminent threat of another ice age
Sub-SECTION B: Let snow and ice be shoveled into the hallways by the
underclassmen for increased balance training
SECTION 6: Let all underclassmen be required to follow a strict dress code in order to maintain a high level of professionalism to prepare them for the rigorous academic environment of the upperclassman.
Sub-SECTION A: Let underclassmen expose no more than 10% of their skin
Sub-SECTION B: Let underclassmen only wear green and yellow in order to properly demonstrate school spirit
Sub-SECTION C: Let underclassmen only be permitted to wear ski boots in school
SECTION 6: Failure to comply with these rules will result in immediate and intense punishment
Sub-SECTION A: Let any underclassmen who breaks these rules be held in a stock, as public humiliation, for the duration of that day
Sub-SECTION B: Let underclassmen in punishment be required to make up all work from that day regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or family demographics
SUB-SECTION C: Let underclassmen in punishment find time to help each of their teachers for a minimum of 1 hour with anything from grading tests to cleaning their classroom
Sub-SECTION D: Allow upper-classmen to taze and pepper spray freshmen.
Sub-SECTION E: For the first semester, if any upperclassmen deem a freshman “annoying,” they will be killed second semester and fed to sharks present in the moat on either side of the soft wall.
SECTION 6: Let the access of underclassmen to the east building be denied by a 50’ tall brick wall spanning the pork chop, a high security door will be accessible by fingerprint to seniors and faculty only
SECTION 6: This bill shall go into effect 23 days after passage, as the power of enforcement will be distributed to Libby, Sean, police officers, other faculty and seniors, who upon probable cause are licensed to stun students through electrocution and the use of tasers.
Lobbyist Speech
Good afternoon my fellow senators. My name is Perrin Kileen and I represent Michael B. Enzi from the beautiful state of Wyoming. I am a Republican lobbyist for college debt. I represent a group called The Committee for Economic Development. We are a non-profit, business led public policy organization that delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions to our nation's most critical problems. My committee, The Committee of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will be addressing the Bill number 1-2016 called Endorsement of Student Financial Incentives. College debt is one of our largest issues as a country and directly affects the younger generations. While I do believe in lowering the interest rate for loans, using Pell Grants and providing more funding through taxation has the potential to create negative impacts.
The first thing I would like to address is Section 2; increasing the funding for Pell Grants by 200 billion dollars. I am fully behind the lowering of college costs, but taking away from other critical sources, such as the military, is not something I will back. This bill proposes that we eliminate the production of 1,250 “redundant” F-35 Jets in order to gain 200 billion dollars for Pell Grants. However, this section will negatively impact the military by taking away critical equipment. Our nation's safety is very high on the list of priorities. Now I fully understand that there may be criticism, especially from the democratic side about needing support for college. This doesn’t diminish the fact that our main focus right now is college debt and this is the issue we need to address. However, giving money away is not the best way to do this. Students need to work hard for their degree and this includes making financial sacrifices. What we need to focus on is how to make college more affordable, not give money away funding degrees that some students will never use. Therefore we need to focus on what changes must be made in a timely manner. Changes that are realistic such as lowering the interest rate for college.
Student debt has recently reached a crippling 1.26 trillion dollars, largely due to the rising interest rates that make it increasingly difficult to pay back loans as debt expands at a faster rate. For this reason I fully support section 4. It proposes bringing the monthly interest rate down from 3.76% to 2.05% which would have a significant impact in lowering the debt. To put this in perspective a 50,000 loan grows to 71,209 over a period of 20 years of payments. However, with the lower rate the total after 20 years of payments is roughly 10,000 dollars less at 60,991. This example shows the impact that lowering the interest rate would have. Not only does this solution lower the debt, it lowers the debt without taking away from anything else and this is a great first step in addressing this issue.
All in all, I support this bill and believe that it would positively benefit our country and works to address the college debt crisis. This issue has gone on long enough, to the point where the youth of our country are being held back from reaching their full potential. We need a solution now or the debt will only increase. Our future as a country depends on equal opportunity for all. This includes making education more available and affordable. Which is exactly what this bill proposes. In fact, I would go so far as to say this bill is the only bill in the last 20 years that has the potential to solve this problem. Thank you for your time.
For this project we looked into how our government fucntions by each playing a role of a sentor. We were eached tasked with writing legistlation from our senators view and learning how they stood on political issues. We started on committees and amended our bills. After this we moved to our final exhibition where we voted on the revised bills. In the end one of the two passed the senate and the other one failed to pass. The one that passed was vetoed by the president.
Animas High School Model Senate
Committee: Climate Change Committee Principal Authors: Michael B. Enzi
(Perrin Kileen) Bernie Sanders (George McQuinn)
Bill No: 1 Submission Date: 11/14/2016
Title of Bill: Segregation of Animas High School by Age Class
Be It Enacted By The Animas High School Model Congress
Preamble: Whereas underclassmen have been a long term problem, since they continually deface school property, smoke mad dope on school grounds, litter trash throughout the campus and obstruct hallways with loud and annoying clusters, and since upperclassmen deserve the right to scooter and skateboard freely in the west building, uninterrupted by younger student’s frolicking.
SECTION 6: Underclassmen may be defined as both male and female students who have not yet completed their 2nd year of secondary education.
SECTION 6: Allow underclassmen, as defined in SECTION 1, to use their west building bathrooms, and only their west building bathrooms, to urinate and wash their hands
SECTION 6: Let underclassmen be denied access to the east building and it’s luxuries including the espresso machine, triple water fountain, and upper lot parking
SECTION 6: Let the security of underclassmen be ensured through strict measures of law and order, by targeting “HotSpots,” defined as locations used by younger students to smoke mad dope.
Sub-SECTION A: Let 15 security cameras, paid for by fundraising done by freshman and sophomore students, be installed facing the west building and targeting previously defined “HotSpots”
Sub-SECTION B: Let the west building be protected by a drug dog
Sub-SECTION C: Let the underclassmen be watched by two police officers
- Police officers will enforce drug policies
- Police officers will stand at either door of the west building
- Drug Wolves will run alongside drug dogs for enforcement
Sub-SECTION A: Let underclassmen be conditioned for seasonal winters and the imminent threat of another ice age
Sub-SECTION B: Let snow and ice be shoveled into the hallways by the
underclassmen for increased balance training
SECTION 6: Let all underclassmen be required to follow a strict dress code in order to maintain a high level of professionalism to prepare them for the rigorous academic environment of the upperclassman.
Sub-SECTION A: Let underclassmen expose no more than 10% of their skin
Sub-SECTION B: Let underclassmen only wear green and yellow in order to properly demonstrate school spirit
Sub-SECTION C: Let underclassmen only be permitted to wear ski boots in school
SECTION 6: Failure to comply with these rules will result in immediate and intense punishment
Sub-SECTION A: Let any underclassmen who breaks these rules be held in a stock, as public humiliation, for the duration of that day
Sub-SECTION B: Let underclassmen in punishment be required to make up all work from that day regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or family demographics
SUB-SECTION C: Let underclassmen in punishment find time to help each of their teachers for a minimum of 1 hour with anything from grading tests to cleaning their classroom
Sub-SECTION D: Allow upper-classmen to taze and pepper spray freshmen.
Sub-SECTION E: For the first semester, if any upperclassmen deem a freshman “annoying,” they will be killed second semester and fed to sharks present in the moat on either side of the soft wall.
SECTION 6: Let the access of underclassmen to the east building be denied by a 50’ tall brick wall spanning the pork chop, a high security door will be accessible by fingerprint to seniors and faculty only
SECTION 6: This bill shall go into effect 23 days after passage, as the power of enforcement will be distributed to Libby, Sean, police officers, other faculty and seniors, who upon probable cause are licensed to stun students through electrocution and the use of tasers.
Lobbyist Speech
Good afternoon my fellow senators. My name is Perrin Kileen and I represent Michael B. Enzi from the beautiful state of Wyoming. I am a Republican lobbyist for college debt. I represent a group called The Committee for Economic Development. We are a non-profit, business led public policy organization that delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions to our nation's most critical problems. My committee, The Committee of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will be addressing the Bill number 1-2016 called Endorsement of Student Financial Incentives. College debt is one of our largest issues as a country and directly affects the younger generations. While I do believe in lowering the interest rate for loans, using Pell Grants and providing more funding through taxation has the potential to create negative impacts.
The first thing I would like to address is Section 2; increasing the funding for Pell Grants by 200 billion dollars. I am fully behind the lowering of college costs, but taking away from other critical sources, such as the military, is not something I will back. This bill proposes that we eliminate the production of 1,250 “redundant” F-35 Jets in order to gain 200 billion dollars for Pell Grants. However, this section will negatively impact the military by taking away critical equipment. Our nation's safety is very high on the list of priorities. Now I fully understand that there may be criticism, especially from the democratic side about needing support for college. This doesn’t diminish the fact that our main focus right now is college debt and this is the issue we need to address. However, giving money away is not the best way to do this. Students need to work hard for their degree and this includes making financial sacrifices. What we need to focus on is how to make college more affordable, not give money away funding degrees that some students will never use. Therefore we need to focus on what changes must be made in a timely manner. Changes that are realistic such as lowering the interest rate for college.
Student debt has recently reached a crippling 1.26 trillion dollars, largely due to the rising interest rates that make it increasingly difficult to pay back loans as debt expands at a faster rate. For this reason I fully support section 4. It proposes bringing the monthly interest rate down from 3.76% to 2.05% which would have a significant impact in lowering the debt. To put this in perspective a 50,000 loan grows to 71,209 over a period of 20 years of payments. However, with the lower rate the total after 20 years of payments is roughly 10,000 dollars less at 60,991. This example shows the impact that lowering the interest rate would have. Not only does this solution lower the debt, it lowers the debt without taking away from anything else and this is a great first step in addressing this issue.
All in all, I support this bill and believe that it would positively benefit our country and works to address the college debt crisis. This issue has gone on long enough, to the point where the youth of our country are being held back from reaching their full potential. We need a solution now or the debt will only increase. Our future as a country depends on equal opportunity for all. This includes making education more available and affordable. Which is exactly what this bill proposes. In fact, I would go so far as to say this bill is the only bill in the last 20 years that has the potential to solve this problem. Thank you for your time.
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