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#1 A Resolution to Save Lives
Respectfully Submitted, Council Rock North Thomas Weir
 * 1 || **Whereas:** Cancer is the second highest cause of death in America, and ||
 * 2 || **Whereas:** The current financial amount allocated to The National Cancer Institute ||
 * 3 || (NCI) is $4.8 billion, and ||
 * 4 || **Whereas:** The NCI’s budget was reduced by approximately $293 million from the ||
 * 5 || 2012 fiscal year to the 2013 fiscal year ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** Each proton therapy machine, the cutting edge in cancer treatment, costs ||
 * 7 || about $150 million dollars. ||
 * 8 || **Therefore, be it resolved that** The Nation Cancer Institute’s budget should be increased ||
 * 9 || to $15 billion. ||

#2 A Resolution to End Public Funding of Football in America’s Schools
Respectfully submitted by Perkiomen Valley High School
 * 1 || **Whereas:** football presents a known risk of serious injury to all players, and ||
 * 2 || **Whereas:** injuries to the head, knee, and other parts of the body are routine in the ||
 * 3 || sport, and ||
 * 4 || **Whereas:** every impact to the head induces trauma and irrevocable damage to the ||
 * 5 || brain, and ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** the purpose of public education in America is to promote the long-term ||
 * 7 || health and wellness of our children, and ||
 * 8 || **Whereas:** the benefits of participation in football programs are outweighed by the ||
 * 9 || stories and data evidencing the deleterious effects of the sport on the ||
 * 10 || mind and body of children; ||
 * 11 || **Therefore** be it resolved by the congress here assembled that public schools that ||
 * 12 || continue their football programs will forfeit their federal funding cut ||
 * 13 || until said program is abolished. ||

#3 A Resolution to Stop the Trafficking of Human Slaves into the United States
Respectfully submitted by Perkiomen Valley High School
 * 1 || **Whereas:** tens of thousands of women and children are imported annually into ||
 * 2 || the United States to be indentured as virtual slaves; and ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** these women and children are frequently victims of rape, torture ||
 * 4 || and abuse; and ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** victims of trafficking are often arrested, imprisoned, and deported, ||
 * 6 || compounding their torture and hardship; and ||
 * 7 || **Whereas:** neither the US or the International Community has an agency ||
 * 8 || devoted to addressing this problem, ||
 * 9 || **Therefore** be it resolved by this congress here assembled that an agency ||
 * 10 || specifically devoted to investigating and prosecuting traffickers and ||
 * 11 || those who benefit from their trade be established and that the US seek ||
 * 12 || to establish an international criminal court specifically dedicated to ||
 * 13 || address this problem. ||

#4 FAIR MINIMUM WAGE ACT
Respectfully Submitted by Upper Merion Area High School
 * 1 || To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 2007 to provide for an increase in the ||
 * 2 || Federal minimum wage. ||
 * 3 || Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ||
 * 4 || America in Congress assembled, ||
 * 5 || **SECTION I:** SHORT TITLE. ||
 * 6 || This Act may be cited as the "Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013". ||
 * 7 || **SECTION II:** MINIMUM WAGE. ||
 * 8 || (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ||
 * 9 || of 2007 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows: ||
 * 10 || (1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less ||
 * 11 || than— ||
 * 12 || (A) $10 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the ||
 * 13 || date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of ||
 * 14 || 2013; ||
 * 15 || (B) $12.50 an hour, beginning 12 months after that ||
 * 16 || (C) $15 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th ||
 * 17 || (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) ||
 * 18 || shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. ||
 * 19 || All laws in conflict with this bill shall be declared null and void. ||

#5 A Resolution to Promote Nuclear Power
Respectfully submitted Senator Yuri Anium
 * 1 || **Whereas:** The United States is the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels, and ||
 * 2 || **Whereas:** Coal-fired power plants are contributing to global warming, and ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** Completely renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar, will take ||
 * 4 || years to develop into efficient and cost-effective sources, and ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** US National Security is constantly at risk of another energy crisis similar to that ||
 * 6 || of the 1970s OPEC embargo and ||
 * 7 || **Whereas:** Nuclear power plants are cost-effective and do not pose a substantial ||
 * 8 || risk, be it ||
 * 9 || **Resolved** By the student Congress here assembled that funding for nuclear energy ||
 * 10 || programs be increased in order to establish new, and more nuclear power ||
 * 11 || generating plants within the United States. ||

#6 A Bill to Protect America’s Water and Health
Respectfully Submitted Senator H. O. Oh.
 * 1 || **BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:** the ||
 * 2 || U.S. federal government will increase its regulation of energy production through the ||
 * 3 || following provisions: ||
 * 4 || **SECTION I:** A ban shall be placed upon new wells that use hydraulic fracturing ||
 * 5 || (fracking) in the withdrawal of shale gas, in the United States. ||
 * 6 || **SECTION II:** The “Halliburton Loophole” exempting the natural gas industry from ||
 * 7 || complying with the Safe Drinking Water Act, in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, will be ||
 * 8 || repealed. ||
 * 9 || **SECTION III:** Chemicals used in oil and gas withdrawal will be required to be revealed ||
 * 10 || by the oil and gas companies under the following provisions: ||
 * 11 || A. Proprietary formulas may be protected by companies however the specific ||
 * 12 || chemicals used in the withdrawal process will be required to be revealed by the ||
 * 13 || companies, and ||
 * 14 || B. Proprietary formulas must be released to treating physicians, the EPA, and/or ||
 * 15 || the State when and where information is needed to provide medical treatment, in ||
 * 16 || the case of medical emergency ||
 * 17 || **SECTION IV:** This law will take effect within six months of passage. ||
 * 18 || **SECTION V:** All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. ||

#7 A Resolution to Ban Drones
Respectfully Submitted Senator Seymore Clearly
 * 1 || **Whereas:** unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, have become one of the ||
 * 2 || most commonly used weapons of the US military and intelligence agencies; and ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** Use of drones has led to the loss of thousands of innocent lives; and ||
 * 4 || **Whereas:** Drones have the potential to spy on the general public, a violation of ||
 * 5 || US privacy laws; and ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** Numerous other countries are currently using or developing drones; now, ||
 * 7 || therefore, ||
 * 8 || **Be it resolved** by the student congress here assembled that the United States should ||
 * 9 || pursue a treaty in the United Nations that would result in a total global ban on development ||
 * 10 || and use of both military and civilian drones. ||

#8 A Resolution Concerning Land Mines
Respectfully Submitted Senator Ustep  Lightly
 * 1	||	**Whereas:**	land mines pose a huge risk to civilians during time of war and peace, with	||
 * 2	||		80% of victims of land mines being noncombatants, and	||
 * 3	||	**Whereas:**	24,000 people are killed or maimed by land mines every year, and	||
 * 4	||	**Whereas:**	land mines violate the regulations set forth by the Geneva Convention in 	||
 * 5	||		1949 by harming civilians and defying the proportionality clause that states that, 	||
 * 6	||		“Countries have a right and even a duty to protect their existence and freedom by	||
 * 7	||		proportionate means against an unjust aggressor,” and	||
 * 8	||	**Whereas:**	land mines serve no benefit in today’s military combat, and 	||
 * 9	||	**Whereas:**	the United States, China, India, Pakistan, Russia and other countries refused 	||
 * 10	||		to sign the Ottawa Treaty, stating that land mines be banned world wide. Therefore,	||
 * 11	||	**Be it resolved** 	by this Student Congress here assembled that United	||
 * 12	||		States shall sign the Ottawa Treaty eliminating the production and use of land mines	||
 * 13	||		worldwide.	||