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    HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More

    Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

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    Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

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  • Question:

    Physical restraint and seclusion time-outs are being used on students with disabilities in Virginia public school systems. Why is there not a law out there to govern these inhumane practices? Why is the school system allowed to abuse our children with disabilities?

    Asked by: Priscilla Greene from Chesterfield, VA. Received 18 Votes.
    Categories: Education. Tags: Abuse in public schools · Physical Restraint · Seclusion Time-out.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA)

    I just haven’t had anybody raise that to us, so we’ll be glad to look into that and see.

    Answered on Jun 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Every university has created online schools for profit, at around 40 to 70 million dollars-less than .0008% that we now spend. True democracy offers opportunities for all! Why have we not created a free online university for all Americans?

    Asked by: Russell Spears from Montclair, NJ. Received 57 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Education. Tags: educational reform.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

    Rep. Kucinich: Well, you know, online education keeps growing, and for some people it’s a more affordable option. What we need to do is to make that those people who want to go to an institution and appear in person would be able to afford it. That’s where our focus should be. We should not take our eye away from our obligation to give people a chance to go to college.

    Answered on Apr 25th, 2008 More

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    Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

    Nutrition education we already do within health classes. When my kids were in kindergarten or 1st Grade, and how many grains and how many dairies, so nutrition education, yes. One of the other questions to be asked is, is it the federal government’s role to tell schools what they should be doing within the choices that are available within a school. We need to keep in mind that within the past 40 some-odd years, we’ve been doing that within the school lunch program. We have set the standards within school lunches and we say there are standards that need to be met.

    Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)

    Well first of all, it’s not up the federal government to mandate what schools teach. I would never want to intrude on the local jurisdiction of schools to decide who they hire, who the fire, what books use. That’s not the role of the federal government. But I do think the role of the federal government is, as long as we’re providing school lunches and school breakfasts and food in schools, that we ought to be able to say what foods would be allowed in those schools.

    Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More

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    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)

    You may see immigration reform come through in pieces. I think we’re going to have to have a legal channel to meet the demands for labor in this country. At the same time security at the border is important. We share this border, we share the problem and we share the responsibility of securing the border on both sides.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

    The first thing is we do have to have border security. The right type of border security; Will that stimulate the economy building the fence?...I’m against the fence. If you’ve going to spend $3 million a mile there are other ways, using technology, getting rid of the Carrizo, the plants that grow so high that border patrol can’t do their jobs. Our economy does depend on people doing certain type of jobs. I would say first, give them to the Americans, but if you have ag products or construction or hotel industry jobs that people don’t want to do those jobs, let someone else do it.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congestion, sprawl, schools, health care, crime, pollution, affordable housing, diminishing resources, wages, tax burdens, are all result of unconstrained immigration. How would more people chasing fewer resources address these problems?

    Asked by: Ed Weirdness from Mesquite, TX. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Economy · Education · Environment · Homeland Security · Immigration · Taxes. Tags: crime · economy · education · health care · immigration.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA)

    We not only have a right we have a responsibility that American immigration is not first good for America and second good for the immigrant. Usually it’s good for both. There is a legitimate argument that I don’t think people talk about. Every community is concerned about how many people are moving in and the impact on roads and everything else. These are the kind of open and frank discussions that we should encourage without being attacked for the dialog and going back and forth.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    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.
    Answer:

    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

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