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#1 A Bill to Constitutionalize the National Security State

 * BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE THAT:**
 * 1 || **SECTION I:** The NSA will forthwith be required to declassify, and cease all methods of mass-metadata ||
 * 2 || collection. ||
 * 3 || **SECTION II:** For the purpose of submitting the FISA Court to judicial review, the FISA court be reformed ||
 * 4 || so that it operates under the following protocols: ||
 * 5 || a) The FISA Court will notify all U.S. citizens for whom a government agency receives a ||
 * 6 || surveillance warrant that a warrant has been made to search their electronic and phone records. ||
 * 7 || b) The aforementioned U.S. Citizens will be given the information regarding the scope of the search. ||
 * 8 || c) All search warrants will, after two weeks, be put on public record, unless the citizen for whom the ||
 * 9 || warrant was made requests that it be sealed. ||
 * 10 || d) The justification and evidence of probable cause employed by the government agency will ||
 * 11 || mandatorily also be put on public record after a duration of two weeks after the warrant’s ||
 * 12 || admittance. ||
 * 13 || **SECTION III:** Citizens of the United States of America, being protected by the Fourth Amendment of the ||
 * 14 || Constitution of the United States, be henceforth excluded from all collections of metadata procured by ||
 * 15 || any branch of the United States Government, unless through the means and methods prescribed by ||
 * 16 || Section II, the FISA Court releases a surveillance warrant. ||
 * 17 || **SECTION IV:** All classified information retained by the U.S House of Representatives Permanent Selection ||
 * 18 || Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence be henceforward shared by ||
 * 19 || all members of Congress. ||
 * 20 || **SECTION V:** Government agencies hereby be prohibited to demand or purchase metadata from private ||
 * 21 || companies. ||
 * 22 || **SECTION VI:** All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. ||

#2: A Resolution to Cease Production of the Penny

 * 1 || **Whereas:** The modern penny does not possess nearly enough buying power to be ||
 * 2 || considered necessary, and ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** The penny is a burden to the economy for it costs approximately 2.41 cents ||
 * 4 || to produce a single penny, and ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** Countries such as Canada have already stopped the production of the penny ||
 * 6 || and now simply round a cost to the nearest 5 cents, and ||
 * 7 || **Whereas:** The process of fiddling in one’s pocket for pennies has become a massive waste ||
 * 8 || of time for the salesmen and consumers. ||
 * 9 || **Therefore:** be it resolved by the congress here assembled that production of the penny should ||
 * 10 || permanently cease and various prices should be rounded to the nearest 5 cents. The penny can ||
 * 11 || still, however, be used in purchases. ||

#3 A Resolution to Legalize Physician Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients

 * 1 || **Whereas:** Four states have legalized physician assisted euthanasia. ||
 * 2 || **Whereas:** Every person has the ability to end their own lives by their own hand. ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** Many individuals support the practice of physician assisted suicide for the ||
 * 4 || terminally ill; and many ill individuals actively seek this practice. ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** Physician aided suicide can prevent a slow, painful, lingering death for the ill. ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** The terminally ill should not have prolonging pain and suffering. ||
 * 7 || **Therefore let it be resolved:** The practice of physician assisted suicide be legalized ||
 * 8 || throughout the United States. ||

#4 A Resolution to raise the National minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour

 * 1 || **Whereas:** the minimum wage in 1968 would be the modern equivalent of $21.72 an hour, and ||
 * 2 || **Whereas:** increasing wages will stimulate the economy and give those in poverty more buying power, and ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** in 60% of the states that increased the minimum wage during times of high unemployment, job ||
 * 4 || growth was faster than the national average, and ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** raising the minimum wage to $15 would inject $450 billion into the economy, and ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** a larger salary gives more incentive and meaning to one’s work, and ||
 * 7 || **Whereas:** raising minimum wage will pull people out of poverty, and ||
 * 8 || **Whereas:** with more money, fewer families would be reliant on food stamps, welfare and other ||
 * 9 || government safety nets, and ||
 * 10 || **Therefore,** be it resolved that the national minimum wage will increase to $15.00 an hour to ||
 * 11 || benefit the people of America and any conflicting laws shall be abolished. ||

# 5 A Resolution to Create a System of Basic Income in the United States

 * 1 || **Whereas:** All other forms of Public Assistance will be eliminated, and tax code will be ||
 * 2 || simplified. ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** The current form of Public Assistance creates a “Welfare-Trap” and discourages ||
 * 4 || employment. ||
 * 5 || **Whereas:** Higher income nationwide incentivizes consumer spending and thus drives the ||
 * 6 || economy. ||
 * 7 || **Whereas:** Employee treatment and overall job quality improves due to open system for ||
 * 8 || job selection. ||
 * 9 || **Whereas:** A higher income raises opportunity for higher education thereby opening the ||
 * 10 || job market for more foreign investment. ||
 * 11 || Less chances of bankruptcy will produce surge in small business, thereby ||
 * 12 || increasing competition in service market, thereby increasing quality of service ||
 * 13 || market. ||
 * 14 || **Therefore, be it resolved** that The United States begin payments to the whole body of citizens, ||
 * 15 || a minimal income yearly, ensuring economic well-being for future generations of Americans. ||

# 6 A Resolution To Give All Power Regarding Drugs and their Enforcement Over to Each Individual State.

 * 1 || **Whereas:** The Tenth Amendment states that all ‘The powers not delegated to the United ||
 * 2 || States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the ||
 * 3 || States respectively, or to the people.’ ||
 * 4 || **Whereas:** Citizens living in states that currently have drug laws that differ from those of ||
 * 5 || the Federal Government, are open to random arrests and searches. ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** An unconstitutionality exists wherein the Drug Enforcement Agency may change ||
 * 7 || laws concerning drug use without the say of congress, causing an unchecked law ||
 * 8 || making process. ||
 * 9 || **Whereas:** Enforcement policy is equal for all citizens of the United States, causing unfair ||
 * 10 || disparity between criminal intent in one state versus non-criminal intent in ||
 * 11 || another. ||
 * 12 || **Therefore, be it resolved** that the Federal Government give up all power over drug law-making ||
 * 13 || and drug enforcement, giving to each of the fifty states respectively. ||

#7 RESOLUTION: That the United States Postal Service should take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service.

 * 1 || **Whereas:** the United States Postal Service has announced that it may need to reduce ||
 * 2 || the frequency of its mail delivery service from 6 days a week to 5 days a week; ||
 * 3 || **Whereas:** 6-day mail delivery service is an essential service that the American people ||
 * 4 || have relied on since 1912, particularly working families that depend on the Postal ||
 * 5 || Service for the timely delivery of their paychecks; ||
 * 6 || **Whereas:** Social Security is the primary or sole source of income for many senior ||
 * 7 || citizens, and any delay in the delivery of their Social Security checks would make it ||
 * 8 || difficult for them to purchase even essential items, such as food and medicine; and ||
 * 9 || **Whereas:** reducing mail delivery service to 5 days a week would inevitably cause not ||
 * 10 || only delays in the delivery of mail, but higher postal costs, due to the many hours of ||
 * 11 || additional overtime that the Postal Service would require in order to handle the ||
 * 12 || resulting back-up of mail: ||
 * 13 || **Now, therefore, be it //Resolved//** That the United States Postal Service should take ||
 * 14 || all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of its 6-day mail delivery service. ||

==	#8 A RESOLUTION TO SAVE THE NATION’S POLLINATORS	==
 * 1	||	**Whereas:**	Pollination services are a vital part of agricultural production, worth 	||
 * 2	||		$20,000,000,000 to $30,000,000,000 in agricultural production annually in the United States.	||
 * 3	||	**Whereas:**	 One-third of food produced in North America depends on pollination by honey bees.	||
 * 4	||	**Whereas:**	Over the past several years, documented incidents of colony collapse disorder have been 	||
 * 5	||		at a record high, and	||
 * 6	||	**Whereas:**	According to scientists of the Department of Agriculture, current estimates of the 	||
 * 7	||		survivorship of honey bee colonies show they are too low to be able to meet the pollination 	||
 * 8	||		demands of United States agricultural crops.	||
 * 9	||	**Whereas:**	scientists have linked the use of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides to the rapid decline 	||
 * 10	||		of pollinators and to the deterioration of pollinator health. 	||
 * 11	||	**Be it therefore Resolved** 	that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 	||
 * 12	||		order and institute a ban on the use of all neonicotinoid insecticides in seed treatment, soil 	||
 * 13	||		application, or foliar treatment on bee attractive plants, trees, and cereals.	||