A Bill to Discontinue Nonessential Military Hardware
Section 1: The United States military will no longer produce and purchase U. S tanks and scrap 95% of all U.S tanks currently in service. Also all research on future U.S tanks will be halted.
Section 2: U.S tanks refer to the M1 Abrams Tank and all variations of the model. This legislation will not affect the production, usage, or development of other armored vehicles used by the U.S military.
Section 3: The U.S Department of Defense will be responsible for the oversight of this legislation.
Section 4: This legislation will go into effect at the beginning of the 2017 fiscal year.
Section 5: All laws in conflict with this legislation is hereby declared null and void.
Submitted by,
Sangyeol Lee,
Acton Boxborough Regional High School
A Bill to Stabilize the Middle East
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
1. Section 1. A) The United States federal government shall increase the number of
2. Syrian refuges admitted into the United States by 100,000 by the end of 2016. $500 3.million US dollars annually will hereby be allocated to the infrastructure and personnel 4. necessary to process the refugees and administer background checks.
5. B) The United States Air Force and Navy shall accelerate strikes against
6. Islamic State facilities and forces in Iraq and Syria.
7. C) The United States shall increase intelligence collaboration with 8.Kurdish forces and commence talks to sell military equipment to the Kurdistan
9. Regional.Government.
10.Section 2. ‘Infrastructure’ shall be defined as the necessary utilities needed for a safe 11.and sanitary environment. ‘Military equipment’ shall be defined as any tool that 12.provides benefits and increased efficiency to military operations.
13.Section 3. The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration shall be responsible for 14.he enforcement of Section 1A, in addition to collaboration with the Department of 15.Homeland Security for background checks.
16. Section 4. The United States Agency for .International Development shall be 17.responsible for providing the funding for section.1A. The United States Department of 18. Defense shall be responsible for Sections 1B .and 1C
19.SECTION 4. This legislation shall go into effect immediately upon passage.
20.Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Respectfully Introduced for Congressional Debate
Senator Sofia Kurd of
Needham High School.
A Bill to Require Police Officers to Wear a Body Camera On Duty
BE IT ENACTED BY THIS CONGRESS THAT:
1. SECTION 1. A. All police officers are hereby required to wear body cameras while they are on
2. duty.
3. B. All authorized police agencies that do not comply with section 1A will lose 50
4. percent of all federal funding.
5. SECTION 2. Body cameras shall be defined as recording instruments worn by any used to capture
6. the interactions between police officers and civilians. Police officers are required to
7. wear a camera at all times and turn in the camera every time they respond to an
8. incident.
9. SECTION 3. The National Security Agency will be responsible for the distribution of the body
10. cameras and the enforcement of this legislation.
11. A. The individual police departments are obligated to educate their police officers
12. about proper usage of the body cameras.
13. B. Officers who use the police body cameras incorrectly would be under threat of
14. termination.
15. SECTION 4. This legislation will go into effect on February 1, 2016
16. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby considered null void.
Respectfully Submitted,
Shrewsbury High School
A Bill to Reform Border and Transportation Security
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1.
1) This authorizes the formation of a new law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security. This law enforcement agency will be formed through the merger of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Amtrak Police, and the Transportation Security Administration. This agency will be named the U.S. Border and Transportation Protection Service.
2) The U.S. Border and Transportation Protection Service will have the authority of all the agencies listed above.
3) This new agency will be led by a newly created position- the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation Security.
4) Grants $10 million a year for the next three years, to be used for merger associated costs. This money will be sourced from the general government revenue
5) The implementation of this bill is to be enforced by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
Section 2.
The hiring of the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation Security must be completed within 6 months of the passage of this bill. The merger of the agencies listed above into the U.S. Border and Transportation Protection Service must be completed within 3 years of the passage of this bill.
Section 3. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void
Introduced by Chelmsford High School
FEDERAL CHARTER SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS BILL
1 Section 1. This house authorizes $500 million dollars for the creation of new charter
2. schools and for the maintenance of existing ones in FY 2017.
3. Section 2. These monies will be allotted to the states proportionally based on the number of
4. students enrolled in public K-12 classrooms in the several states.
5. Section 3. The use of these funds is under the supervision of the various state departments
6. of education.
7. Section 4. The federal Department of Education may pass further legislation to create
8. federal oversight of the disbursement of these funds.
Respectfully submitted,
Rep. Timothy O’Brien
Catholic Memorial School
Superscenario
News bulletin
Thanksgiving has taken an ominous turn for Congressional dining services. Over a dozen congressional staffers, including Senator Julius Adolescent and Representative Gordunn Goatsilent have been hospitalized following a pre-Thanksgiving meal in the Senate dining room. Rumors that the government’s dining services uses the same food providers as that of Pitapolte, recently hit by similar news for their customers, were unsubstantiated at press time.