A Bill to Return the Judicial System to its Roots
1 Section One: The number of Supreme Court judges serving on the Supreme Court of the
2 United States shall be designated as thirteen in number.
3 Section Two. Each Supreme Court judge shall be required to spend one month a year
4 serving as a judge on one of the eleven numbered federal circuit court, the Washington
5 DC Court of appeals, or the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
6 Each Supreme Court judge shall be required to spend sixty total days a year serving as a
7 judge for at least three federal district courts within their assigned circuit court for that
8 given year.
9 In the event that a given case extends beyond a judge’s assigned month, the judge’s assigned time in
10 said court shall be extended as well.
11 Judges will serve on the circuit and district courts at the same time as one another.
12 The Supreme Court shall not meet during the month(s) they are serving as circuit or district
13 court judges.
14 No judge shall serve on the same circuit court for a second time until their fourteenth year of
15 service on the Supreme Court.
16 The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall oversee the assignment of judges for the
16 purposes of this legislation.
18. The five district courts which fall outside the territorial United States fall under purview of
19 this legislation.
20. Supreme Court judges and needed employees shall be compensated for their travel and food 21 at the rate established for federal employees by the General Services Agency.
22 This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2018.
Respectfully Submitted
William Evants High School
A BILL TO END SPORT STADIUM SUBSIDIES
1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. A. The United States will terminate all subsidies going to the creation of new
3. sports stadiums.
4. B. The funds saved from the removal of sports subsidies will be reallocated to
5. implement new fitness programs in secondary schools to minimize childhood
6. obesity.
7. SECTION 2. A subsidy shall be defined as a sum money granted by the government
8. assist an industry or business
9. SECTION 3. A. The US Department of Treasury will oversee the termination of sports
stadium subsidies.
B. The US Department of Education will oversee the implementation of new
fitness programs in schools across the nation.
14. SECTION 4. This bill will be implemented at the start of the 2016 fiscal year.
15. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and
16. void.
Respectfully Submitted,
Tejas Subramanian
Acton Boxborough Regional High School
A Bill to Keep Suspending and Preventing Extraction of Arctic Resources
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1.Arctic drilling off the coast of Alaska shall be prohibited.
Section 2.Drilling shall be defined as any method of extracting oil and/or natural gas. Arctic (off the coast of Alaska) shall be defined as the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea.
Section 3.The Department of Interior shall be responsible for enforcing this legislation.
SECTION 4.The provisions of this legislation shall be enacted upon passage. Any existing leases to drill in the Arctic will be honored, but may not be renewed.
Section 5.All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Newton South HS
A Bill To Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 an hour
BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION1: The federal minimum wage shall be increased to $10.10 an hour for
both men and women.
SECTION2: Federal minimum wage shall be defined as the lowest hourly wage
that employers can legally pay their employees.
SECTION3.
A. The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor shall
oversee the implementation and enforcement of this legislation by
doing 6 month checks in January and June for each business with
minimum wage earners to ensure each employee is being paid
accordingly.
B. Any businesses with minimum wage workers who do not comply
with the new minimum wage within the first 6 months shall be
subject to fines from the Federal Trade Commission. The starting
fine shall be $2,500 and raised $2,500 every 6 months that a business
does not comply with the new minimum wage.
SECTION 4: This bill shall be implemented in January 1, 2017.
SECTION5: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this legislation are declared
null and void.
Respectfully Submitted,
Bancroft School
The Direct Agricultural Assistance Leveraging Act of 2016
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1.The United States Government will only provide agricultural subsidies to farms in the bottom quartile of income.
- There will be no increase in subsidies for farms in the bottom quartile after the passage of this legislation.
- All money currently allotted to subsidies for farms who will no longer be eligible under this legislation will be put into an annual aid package for Mexico.
- The Mexican government will be required to give 60% of this aid package towards subsidies for Mexican farmers.
Section 2.Agricultural Subsidies will be hereby defined as Payments by the federal government to producers of agricultural products for the purpose of stabilizing food prices, ensuring plentiful food production and guaranteeing farmers' basic incomes.
Section 3.The US Department of Agriculture will be charged with overseeing §1 and §1A of this legislation. The US Department of State will be charged with the efficient distribution of the money to the Mexican government.
SECTION 4.This legislation will take effect on the first day of the first fiscal year after passage.
Section 5.All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by
Senator Joe McCauley,
Catholic Memorial School
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The collapse of a major bridge over the Mississippi River have renewed calls for solving the problem of collapsing US infrastructure. The bridge, nicknamed ‘The Kick to Route 66’ abruptly collapsed during rush hour Wednesday. The death toll is estimated to be well over one hundred, perhaps more once the missing are added.