RDAVIS

RDAVIS I am a Republican. The Texas representative that I stand with most similarly on issues is [|John R. Carter], who is serving Texas's 31st district.

The three issues that are most important to me are: 1) **Health and Safety**- I am not very happy with the health and safety of Americans. I feel that all Americans should recieve health care, but I think it should be managed by private sectors and not the government. America is one of the most obese countries in the world and the obesity rate keeps increasing. A way to solve this problem is starting with American youth, I feel that a reason for this is the food that they are served at school. If we require healthier foods to be served, than I think that the obesity rate would go down. Also, if the youth was not so obese, then we might have healthier adults, because they are following the example of the youth. 2) **Immigration**- I am not very happy with how America is dealing with immigration. I feel that we need to step up on our enforcement of illegal immigrants to secure our border, and that we need a better immigration policy. Many illegals sneak into American borders, and take American jobs. If we increase our enforcement of illegal immigrants, and tighten our borders then we can keep our jobs and keep illegals out. I feel that people who are willing to take the time and money to become legal American citizens deserve the jobs that illegals take. 3) **National Defense**- Obviously America is on high alert for future terror attacks, and I think that we need to do more to increase our national defense. I feel that we need to keep our troops in the Middle East to win this war on terror, and secure the safety of innocent Americans. I feel that if we draw our troops out of Iraq now, then those terrorists will be able to harm even more innocent civilians.

The bill that I am writing with ALindenfelser is HB 2. Our issue is Health and Safety and our bill will require schools to serve healthier food choices for lunch, and will provide breakfast for all students. Our bill will substitute unhealthy choices for healthier options, such as grilled chicken as opposed to breaded chicken. We also want to offer fresh fruit instead of preserved fruit packaged in unhealthy syrup. Hopefully making the meals healthier, we will help to decrease the amount of obese children under the age of 15, which is 9,000,000. The meals currently served are not nutritional enough for growing children, and especially athletes. We will also offer breakfast which will consist of **fresh** fruit, yogurt, and cereal. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and we want all the children to have the opportunity to eat something. This will also be very inexpensive because students will be paying for all the food they buy. For the students who cannot afford it, they will recieve government funding.

5 State Facts 1) From 2000-2006, the total Texas population has increased by 12.6%. 2) The Texas border to Mexico is 889 miles long. 3) 71% of the Texas population is white, while 32% of the population is hispanic, and 12% African Americans. 4) Texas has 3 of the top ten most populous cities in the U.S., they are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. 5) Sulfur, salt, helium, asphalt, graphite, bromine, natural gas, cement, and clays are some of Texas's valuable resources.

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