5 Questions for Video

1.) What caused Boehner to back out of the prearranged deal with Obama?
2.) How did the loss of house and senate seats affect Obama's overall agenda?
3.) Is the idea of non party bias decisions a unattainable goal?
4.) How often does every member of a party vote the same way?
5.) How often to presidents running for reelection change the ideas there campaign is based on for their reelection campaign?

First Quarter Reflection

During the first half of the third quarter I have learned how a bill becomes a law. My precious knowledge on this subject was limited and I enjoyed learning the course that it takes. The first test was a struggle for me. I did not do as well as I expected to and realized that I needed to make some changes to my study habits in order to do well on the next assessment.

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On Thursday. an effort to impeach Maine's governor Paul LePage failed in the legislature. A group of law makers introduces a proposes that would commence an investigation to look at the eight charges against Mr. LePage. After, the committee would then recommend if impeachment was a necessary action to be considered. With a vote of 96-52 the investigation was indefinitely postponed.

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Next week Maryland legislators will be voting on a bill to restore voting rights to nearly 40,000 individuals that are on probation because of felonies. Currently people charged with felonies are not allowed to vote until they have finished their probation sentences. If this override attempt succeeds then these people will be able to vote as soon as they leave prison.

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In Indonesia, police have hunted down three suspected militants and hunted other individuals down across the country. This comes only a day after an attack by Islamic state suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the nation's capital. Seven people were killed in this attack. Five of them were the gunmen.

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Kansas governor has issued an executive order stating that the state is banning, not just Syrian refugees, but refugees from any other country. Mr. Brownback was one of the 30 governors who originally banned Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks. Now, Kansas and Georgia governors are the only people who have banned resettlement of refugees.

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A large golden statue of China's chairman Chao appeared in a rural town of China earlier this week. Just two days after its completion the statue was abolished by the orders of embarrassed local officials. The gold painted statue costed nearly half a million dollars and was funded by private businessmen and villagers.

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