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American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend? More

Asked 48 weeks 14 hours ago of All U.S. Congress
by elvin from Boston, MA
34
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Do you think a border fence is the answer to our immigration problems? More

Asked 49 weeks 3 days ago of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
by Matt Cheney from San Francisco, CA
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Were 42 House members right in refusing to support a House resolution commemorating the holy Muslim month of Ramadan? More

Asked 49 weeks 3 days ago of U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
by populist from San Francisco, CA

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Do you think a border fence is the answer to our immigration problems?
Asked by: Matt Cheney from San Francisco, CA. Received 34 Votes.
Categories: Homeland Security · Immigration · Race & Sex. Tags: border · fence · mexico.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)

Nobody believes, certainly I don’t that you can just build a fence, pat yourself on the back and say ‘hey, look we secured the border’ because people can cut holes in fences, they can come over it and they can come around it. So, you need to have a solution comprised of people, technology and in some places physical barriers- but it’s got to be a combination.

Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More
American high schools have high drop-out rates. What can Congress do to curb this trend?
Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 44 Votes.
Categories: Campaign 2008 · Economy · Education · Race & Sex · Technology. Tags: drop outs · education · national standards · public school · school.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA)

Oh there’s a lot we can do to fix that in the rewrite on No Child Left Behind, we plan to focus on those high schools that produce the greatest number of dropouts, to try to put together a plan for those high schools, to also focus on those schools that feed into those high schools.You know have about two-thousand high schools that produce almost fifty-percent of the drop-outs in the country and so we want to start looking at how’d we improve the graduation rates, how we help the schools attract students to come back to school, maybe even some of the students who’ve dropped out come back

Answered on Jan 6th, 2008 More
Do you think a border fence is the answer to our immigration problems?
Asked by: Matt Cheney from San Francisco, CA. Received 34 Votes.
Categories: Homeland Security · Immigration · Race & Sex. Tags: border · fence · mexico.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

“We all believe that the border security has to come first. That’s not a problem. What is a problem is the inability to get anything done, for example to provide a desperately needed workforce for agriculture in America.”

Answered on Dec 12th, 2007 More
Were 42 House members right in refusing to support a House resolution commemorating the holy Muslim month of Ramadan?
Asked by: populist from San Francisco, CA. Received 17 Votes.
Categories: Ethics · Race & Sex. Tags: muslim · ramadan.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)

This is not about politics. This is about the faith of about 1.6 billion people in this world. I think it would have been better if they wanted to talk about it.

Answered on Nov 2nd, 2007 More