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Just hours before the September 30th deadline for funding, the president will be asked to sign the bill. The problem that will arise is that the bill only allows enough funding to cover through December. When December comes most are positive turmoil will tag along. With House Speaker Boehner leaving there are a lot of uncertainties at the moment and most of the future is up in the air.

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On Tuesday House Republicans had the opportunity to talk to the president of planned parenthood, Cecile Richards. Although this was suppose to be a time to learn more about what planned parenthood does with the federal funding they are given. Instead, it turned into a time of questions being asked and Richards starting a thought then being interupted by someone else and eventually moving onto a new question without ever adressing the previous one.

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On monday president Obama announced that the US was willing to work with Iran and Russia in order to stop the Syrian crisis. At the U.N. general assembly Obama described Assad as the chief culprit of the four year civil war. On the other hand Iran and Russia are bothe major backers of Assad which caused conflict at the meeting. Russia has recently engaged in a military build-up system in Syria where it has a naval base and Tehran has armed the Syrian government. Obama has a meeting with Russian president Putin later on Monday.

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John Boehner is resigning from his position as speaker of the house effective on the 30th of October. On monday Keven McCarthy announced that he would be running to take the position. Boehner has stated that he is leaving in order to not cause a further divide in the Republican house, which has become apparent recently. The freedom caucus is looking for a canidate that will be more aggressive than Boehener and force through legeslation tha tthe members support. In order for McCarthy to keep the favor he has gained in the house he will need to show quickly that he is different from Boehner.


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This past week China's president made a visit to the U.S. The meaning behind his visit was to talk to Preident Obama about cyber spying issues. The two came to an agreement to take new steps to address cyber spying. They also agreed to not conduct or support cyber enabled theft of intellectual property. In addition they both agreed to create a senior group to further discuss cyber issues a long with a group of high level people to talk about how to fight cyber crime. This group will meet at the end of 2015 and twice a year following that.

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The Iran Nuclear Deal, proposed by president Obama, failed for the second time in two weeks. The deal needed 60 votes to pass and barely fell short with 56 votes. The majority of Rebublicans are opposed to the deal. Two of the senators who were opposed to the deal, were not present at the vote because they were preparing for the presidential debates. GOP leaders had hoped that in addition to those twos absence two other democrats would buckle under pressure and change their votes, but that was not the case.

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North Korea has declared that it is ready to use nuclear weapons on America and all other of foes. An atomic energy official has said that North Korea is improving its weapons in quality and quantity. North Koreas main plant is located in Yongbyon. This plant includes a uranium enrichment plant and a operating plutonium production reactor. Although North Korea has threatened many times to use these nuclear weapons many wonder if the weapons could reach the U.S mainland.

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Earlier this week a strong earthquake rocked Chile. This earthquake was followed by four aftershocks. This sent a Pacific coast warning for a possible tsuami in the next few days into effect. Most people fled inland and sought high ground after the initial shock occured. There are currntly four dead and one person missing as a result of this earthquake.

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Greece is currently 356 billion dollars in debt and Friday they will be spending another 30 million on an electiuon. This is the third election in a year for Greece, following the resignation of the Prime Minister Tsipras after he lost favor with a significant portion of the Syriza party. He is hoping to regain political favor and his title tomorrow at the election.

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President Obama has recently said that he will not support a bill that would cut funds to planned parenthood. This has been a acontroversial topic in the news lately because many Americans are in favor of cutting the funding because planned parenthood contributes to abortion and the use of tissue from fetuses for research. President Obama is not for the cut of funding because many Americans would not have access to the healthcare that they need that is currently being paid for throught planned parenthood.

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Federalism

1.) Federalism is the "mode of political organization that unites seperate states or other polities within an overarching political system in such a way as to allow each to maintain its own fundamental political integrity."
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2.) There are approximately 195 nation states in the world.
3.)Ten countries have a federal system of government. They are: America, Russia, Germany, France, India, Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and Brazil.
4.)Most countries that practice federalism are made up of previously seperate entities.
5.)Unitary means "a sovereign state governed by a single unity."
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6.)Twenty five countries have a unitary system of government. The five largest by population are: China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, and Philippines.
7.)The difference between a unitary and federal government is that in unitary is the central government has the power to make all of the decsions while federal delegates most of the power to local governments. One advantage of a unitary government is that there is a set form of policies to direct the nation, which makes law making easier. A disadvantavge of unitary is that they have to disregard local differences because they can't accomendate everyones preferences. A advantage of federal is that they give local governments more power. A disadvantage of federal government is that they do not have uniform rules throughout the nation. 
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I believe that this shows that the states want the federal funding but not the federal oversight.

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The federal government is to involved in the details of medical treatment. Cancer Patients wanted to use marijuana for medical purposes because it reduces the effects of chemo. The govenrment is shown here busting into a mans roon while he is undergoing treatment with anti maijuana jackets on.

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The federal government is made up of two political parties which are dicotimies of each other.

11.)The video used a three layer cake as an example of federalism. They describe how the local government deals with issues such as trash pick up, state govenment deals with issues such as education, and national government deals with issues such as space exploration.
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In this picture there are still three levels of government but two of them are intermixed and share duties. This is unlike the example in the video because it suggested that the three layers never intermixed.

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Rachel Maddow is a reporter on MSNBC. On her show Thursday night she condoned Donald Trump for signing the pledge not to run as a third party canidate if he is not elected as the republican representative. Maddow characterizes this a huge mistake. She believes that by doing this he has given away the leverage that Trump held over the Republican party to not trash him because he may eventually be running against them. Trump has come out saying that he signed the pledge to avoid any further  judgement such as that recieved at the beginning of the first presidential debate.

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Martin O'Malley is a 2016 Presidential canidate who has recently taken a strong standpoint on Syrian refugees. America has agreed to take in 6,000- 8,000 refugees in the 2016 fiscal year, but O'malley is calling for more saying that is not enough. He believes that if Germany who has one fourth of the population of America can take in 800,000 refugees America should beat that.He believes that America should take in at least 65,000 refugees.

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Kim Davis presides over a clerk office in Kentucky. Recently she has been in the spotlight because she has refused to isse gay marriages to anyone since the Supreme Court ruling in June. On Thursday Davis was sent to jail for disobeying the orders of US District Judge David Bunning. The first gay marriage was issued that friday morning.

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Hilary Clinton has been under the microscope about her use of a personal email for confidential emails that related to her job as the secretary of state for months. Recently, some the emails have been deemed classified which is a major no no in the government. Clinton has come out in her defense and said that she did not know that the emails were classified at the time and did not think about using her personal email as a crime but instead just convient. She has now come out and admitted that it was a mistake, but she really did not mean any wrong by it, but many Americans are still quite skeptical.

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