Essays on Interest Group

Interest Group: Families USA

Interest Group: Families USA

Question 2: Three pieces of Information that gives a picture of what families believe

The group believes in giving the poor affordable access to healthcare. The website is filled with messages regarding the new President’s effort to repeal and replace Obama Care. It denounces such action not for political stance but for the impacts it will have on the lower and middle income American. Fighting for the rights of the underprivileged healthcare consumers: There are some articles that are condemning the new administration’s effort to lower healthcare expenditures but at the same time lower the tax rate for the corporations. It interprets this as removing from the ...

Childhood obesity is a growing health concern with the National Conference of State Legislatures (2014) estimating that 31.7% of children and adolescents are either obese or overweight. Consequently, such a health concern has an impact on nursing. This is especially the case considering that obesity is associated with the patient being at a high risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and liver complications (Joshi, 2015). It is therefore important that policy imperatives be developed to tackle the problem. Some of primary areas of concern for a policy touching on childhood obesity include school nutrition, insurance coverage for affected ...

U.S. Senator, Missouri

2011-Present

Personal Background Martial Status: Married to Abigail Blunt Education: B.A. History, Southwest Baptist University (1970) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt M.A. History, Missouri State University (1972) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Previous Experience: Clerk of Greene County, Missouri (1972-1984) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Missouri Secretary of State (1985-1992) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt President, Southwest Baptist University (1993-1996) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt U.S. House of Representatives (1996-2010) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Committee Assignments:

Appropriations Committee 2011- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Commerce. Science, and Transportation Committee 2011-2016 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Rules and Administration Committee 2011- present (became chairman 2015) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on the Library 2015- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on Printing 2015-present (vice chairman) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Committee on Armed Services 2013-2014 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Sponsored Legislation

2016 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400034#bill_type[] ...

Central to the conundrum facing politicians and political scholars in the United States is the low and evidently waning voter turnout. Apparently, between 1964 and 2012, the turnout in Presidential elections declined from an estimated 69.3 percent to 56.5 percent of the total registered and eligible voters (DeSipio 2016: Module 6, Lecture 1). Now, in answer, state and national officials have issued proposals for different institutional reforms including “early voting [and] voting by mail” in some States as a means to encourage Americans to vote (Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir, Tolbert, and Spitzer 2014: 219). Evidently, the mentioned tactics create a ...

Introduction

The interest groups are extremely powerful in the Western countries as the source of the representation of the population in the political life of the country. In the contemporary society the shifts in the political arena of the communities are made as the result of the actions of the interested groups. These groups represent the formation of the citizens having the leverages for the exercising influence over the population. They have the power and opportunity to control the spread of the political ideas and behavior among the population. Meanwhile, the political life of the Western democratic countries is not ...

Internal vs. External Penetration Tests

Penetration testing is a form of practice aimed at improving the security system of an organization by testing the computer systems, web application, network, and databases to establish possibilities of an attacker exploiting the system vulnerabilities. Two types of penetration testing exist, the internal and the external testing. The external penetration testing aims at determining the possibility of a remote attacker to access the internal network by accessing specific crown jewels and servers within the system’s internal network. It exploits the external perimeter of the technology, people, and process and systems connected to the public network infrastructure. The ...

PCI is an abbreviation of Payment Card Industry. PCI compliance is, therefore, the following of a particular set of security standard that was developed to protect card information during and after a financial transaction. Companies that are compliant with PCI DSS regulations are less likely to have the data breach. The data collection of the cardholder is, therefore, advised where it is deemed necessary. The information collected should also be stored appropriately according to the PCI DSS regulations. BCS, on the other hand, is an abbreviation of British Computer Society while HIPAA is legislation that provides data privacy and ...

Introduction

The issue of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking” an innovation how to extract natural gas from minerals such as shale rock has become very controversial as of recently in the United States. Large sections of the United States especially in the Northeast have lots of shale rock which has caused many oil and gas companies naturally to extract the region’s resources. This over time has caused many conflicts between the oil companies, local residents as well as local, state and federal authorities. Many people question how safe of a process fracking is and what are the unknown ...

Industry Case Study Report

Industry Case Study Report

Abstract

The world has become increasingly mobile or that is what the statistics shows us. The number of tourists across the world has been rising all through the years barring a few occasions like post 9/11 in 2001 and during the global recession period of 2008-2010. The latest data shows that the international tourist arrivals have increased by 4 % to reach a record 1.2 billion tourist arrivals in 2015 . Almost all the major markets exhibited positive results and is it is expected to upkeep the momentum in 2016 as well. New Zealand also continued to show ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is a national interest group that is organized throughout the states with the goal of influencing public policy. As an interest group, the ACLU of Washington has a strong interest in the civil liberties of citizens of the state. The ACLU seeks to ensure civil liberties are recognized and acknowledged.

Representation

The ACLU of Washington represents its members before the government. They provide a path for its members to voice their concerns to those who govern and have them listen . There a variety of groups that ACLU of Washington represents that include men and women ...

Question 2

Political parties and interest groups have great impact on the US government. Interest groups and political parties have many similarities and are both important to the government. Both groups contain people who work towards the achievement of certain governmental goals. They gather money to enable the accomplishment of these goals (Clark 1). They also promote the politicians so as to enable them achieve their goals. However, interest groups and political parties have differences when it comes to the purposes they serve within the government. Political parties are more concerned about winning elections and gaining power when it comes to ...

The Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence

In his essay, “The Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence”, Nikongo Ba’ Nikongo writes that emancipation and freedom for a majority of the people in the Caribbean countries has meant little as the class structure of the colonial times still continue. He says that the societal order that was followed in the colonial times still continues with the Caucasians and the Chinese occupying the top rung due to their interests in business and manufacturing while the Indians and the Africans tend to remain on the lowest rungs. The condition of the Africans in the Caribbean islands is the most pitiful. ...

The LGBT Protection Act would provide the necessary federal protection to persons who identify as LGBT by prohibiting various forms of discrimination. It would be largely modeled off of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The overall purpose of the Act would be to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, education, and places of public accommodation. The Act would make it unlawful for employers or business proprietors to discriminate against LGBT individuals. As the law currently stands, race, gender, religion, and national origin are protected classes; however, sexual orientation remains unprotected. History shows that persons who identify ...