KFUSSNER


 * KFUSSNER **

**POLITICAL PARTY:**

Democratic Party

** REAL CONGRESSPERSON: **

Representative [|Tom Perriello] of Congressional District number 5 of Virginia. We have similar views an the three issues that are most important to me.


 * IMPORTANT ISSUES: **

**__ 1. Environment and Energy __** ~ With energy and environment, I think that we are not paying enough attention to it or are not taking much action. There are very limited things that can be done in both cases. It is hard to provide a quick cure for the polar bears habitat. Also, we do not have enough money to totaly fix our energy requirements if we were to fix them properly so they will remain long term fixes. This is why I believe we need to invest in new technology to make things easier and eventually cost less. But I also believe that in the mean time we need to take some action such as recycling and other tiny personal things that will help both the environment and energy crisis of our nation.

**__2. Economy__** ~ I believe that our nation's crisis is global. China has so many great things going for them, especially technology, yet they are not doing well economically either. For this issue, I think that too many Americans are losing there jobs. I Believe that the way to fix this economic crisis would be through protecting American tax payers and discontinuing bailouts. To reverse this decline we can not continue to use bailouts like the previous Congress did. I also think that as a World, we should keep more trade, or exchange of foriegn goods so that everyone may prosper.

**__3. Health and Safety__** ~ I think that we should invest more money into sciences and technology for protection of our citizens due to health. The Swine Flu for example came in through Mexico. I think that we should not only research on how to solve diseases, but I think that we should focus a lot on prevention also. In France they take many precautions with every little medical thing. They also focus on ways so whatever it was does not occur again. I think we should learn a little bit from their example. So along with finding cures, I think we should invest government dollars on prevention of diseases and protection from them.

**BILL INFORMATION:**

My bill group is LVOYZEY and BBRANSCOM

Link to our bill. **HB59**

The bill we are writing about is a bill for all large companies, factories or productions that have a certain amount of energy used. Our bill is so that these productions will have to convert 7-15% of the nonrenewable energy now used into renewable energy.
 * Bill: Large Productions go Green **

> IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOURCES **
 * STATE FACTS IMPORTANT TO VOTING **
 * 1) Most of the House of Representative members in Virginia that deal with the issues of Energy and Environment are Democrats.
 * 2) Virginia is the home of a growing number of telecommunications and high-technology companies. There are also thousands of employees of the federal government.
 * 3) Out of approximately 3.5 million people, more than 30% work in service industries, more than 20% in trade, less than 20% in government, and just over 10% in manufacturing.
 * 4) In 2004, unemployment rates stood at 3.7%. Also in 2004, the median household income was $51,689. This shows economy is a large issue here.
 * 5) Virginia has a fast-growing tourism industry, which annually contributes more than $13 billion to the economy.
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 * 4) "But Rise not Likely to Start a Trend of New Increase" John Funk, __The Plain Dealer__, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
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