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Do you think that the people who are adopted should have the opportunity to find their biological parents, or at least find out if they are deceased (and find their graves to pay their respects) or not, and why or why not?
Asked by: Tatiana Navas from Pensacola, FL. Received 31 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Bill Young (R-FL)
“I don’t think there is a simple answer to that. I think the question is, does that child want to find the natural parents. If the child wants to find the natural parents, I would think they should exhaust any means available to do that, but I am aware of a number of cases where the parent did not want to be reconnected with the natural child. It’s not a yes or no answer.” “Well I had a case… some time ago where a young person who needed a bone marrow transplant because they had leukemia, he had been adopted, and we were able to locate the parent.
Answered on Oct 28th, 2009 More
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Do you believe there should be stricter laws and harder consequences for animal cruelty? For example, Michael Vick spent only 18 months in prison for knowingly running a dog fighting ring. Should such criminals not be charged as true criminals instead of someone who has merely committed a seemingly minor crime?
Asked by: Caroline F. from Pensacola, FL. Received 40 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
Reporter: …your position on toughening laws for animal cruelty? Michael Vick served a relatively short sentence considering the violence and cruelty of the crime. Do you feel like these are individuals who should be charged as “serious” criminals as opposed to people who’ve committed a fairly minor infraction of some kind? Sen. Ben Cardin: Well, I think that Michael Vick paid a significant consequence because of his actions, including missing a significant part of his career. So I think it had an impact, a major impact on him.
Answered on Oct 13th, 2009 More
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Do you believe there should be stricter laws and harder consequences for animal cruelty? For example, Michael Vick spent only 18 months in prison for knowingly running a dog fighting ring. Should such criminals not be charged as true criminals instead of someone who has merely committed a seemingly minor crime?
Asked by: Caroline F. from Pensacola, FL. Received 40 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
Reporter: …your position on toughening laws for animal cruelty? Michael Vick served a relatively short sentence considering the violence and cruelty of the crime. Do you feel like these are individuals who should be charged as “serious” criminals as opposed to people who’ve committed a fairly minor infraction of some kind? Sen. Ben Cardin: Well, I think that Michael Vick paid a significant consequence because of his actions, including missing a significant part of his career. So I think it had an impact, a major impact on him.
Answered on Oct 13th, 2009 More
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Do you feel our society's lionizing of celebrities allows them to step outside the boundaries of the law? Why should this be allowed simply because of a recognizable name?
Asked by: Caroline F. from Pensacola, FL. Received 43 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
You wouldn’t think so, but when you look at sometimes some of the results, it’s pretty evident that sometimes they do. And again, the law doesn’t distinguish between celebrities and non-, but these are human institutions. And juries sometimes do, judges sometimes do, prosecutors sometimes do and I think, you can try to deny that, but I think the results speak for themselves.
Answered on Oct 2nd, 2009 More
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Has obesity in America reached a point where we should penalize in some way those who could easily prevent themselves from reaching such a "condition"? In turn, is the economy exacerbating the situation because unhealthy fast food is cheaper?
Asked by: Caroline F. from Pensacola, FL. Received 12 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Flake: On the first one, no. I don’t think the federal government ought to be involved in that. And the second one, perhaps. Maybe so. Maybe it’s cheaper to eat more unhealthy. But on the first, no. We’re in far too much now. We shouldn’t get into that. Reporter: Is there anything the federal government can do to deal with the obesity epidemic? Flake: Well I think we could trim a little fat ourselves, particularly on the spending side.
Answered on Sep 24th, 2009 More
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Listen to: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
I think it’s a couple years away and we are making progress. I don’t want to kid anybody. The votes aren’t there yet, but we are getting there. You’ve seen this in states. There are two ways. One is medical marijuana. I think there, that can be done by the administration. They should simply decline to prosecute, which is what the Clinton administration did, you know, declined to prosecute people. Then John Ashcroft started prosecuting people—I say persecuting people.
Answered on May 22nd, 2009 More
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Why is there no legislation protecting the rights of children with disabilities in Florida who are being hit, restrained, secluded and generally abused in public schools? and even arrested? What if one of these children was your grandchild?
Asked by: clara alevy from Fort Myers, FL. Received 41 Votes.
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No, I have not heard about that, and I presume that the state of Florida, like most states, has some protections with children with disabilities. We have you know a general law – with people with disabilities act, which is grounded in federal law and I’m sure the state has to follow it. But I am not aware of a specific problem.
Answered on May 5th, 2009 More
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With gasoline prices so high and a large part of the cost going into the hands of America's enemies, why are we not legislating incentives to build nuclear electric generating plants to reduce our dependence on oil?
Asked by: Brian Schwartz from Weston, FL. Received 7 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE)
We aren’t doing enough to incent nuclear energy and there’s two major road blocks to nuclear energy. One’s just the high cost. It takes several, I think 5 billion dollars to build a new plant, whereas it’s a third of that to build a coal plant. So the government has to step up and provide some kind of grant or loan fund to be able to offset some of the costs. The second thing is a big thing, and that’s what do we do with the waste. And we can’t get Yucca Mountain through the Senate. So even if we came up with a grant or loan fund they still don’t have anyplace to store it.
Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More
