Issue Position: Government and Diplomacy

Issue Position

Require human rights improvements by Israel in exchange for continuing the $3,000,000,000 in annual foreign aid.

Make all appropriate efforts to restore relations with Cuba

Invite Puerto Rico & the U.S. Virgin Islands to become a state

Invite the U.S. Pacific Territories to become, collectively, a state

Offer substantial grants to encourage mergers and consolidations of municipalities and local districts.

Encourage presidential candidates and Supreme Court Nominees to reveal their IQ, LSAT, SAT, etc. scores

Require that every Congressional freshman who has not done so take an Economics 101 course, and keep taking it until achieving a passing grade

Support the 03/17/2011 Baird/Walz/Slaughter HR 1148 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act ("Stock Act")

Construct an adequate Congressional dormitory as part of the Capitol Complex

Fix whatever rule, regulation, statute, or chilling effect interferes with Congressional staffers answering questions about political plans of their Legislator

Consider establishing a Congressional Constituent Services

Office/Congressional Ombudsman to offload the bulk of constituent services requests from individual members of Congress and improve service delivery
Properly reimburse the revenue lost to and the expenses incurred by DC for hosting the Nation's Capital/Capitol

Adopt nationwide minimum standards for high-rise buildings: integrated firefighting apparatus, tougher standards on using trusses in floors and ceilings, hardened fire stair wells, fire stair wells sized proportionate to anticipated structure population, all fire stair wells descending all the way to the street level, at least two fire stair wells placed at the outside edge of the structure at opposite corners of the structure, independent emergency fire stair lighting, all these to reduce design deficiencies that multiplied the casualties from the attacks on the twin towers on 09/11/2001

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