Congresswoman Susie Lee's Impact
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Surname 1NameTutorCourseDateSignificance of Jacky Rosen MembershipIntroductionJacky Rosen became a congresswoman in the 115th Congress after winning the 2016 elections.She is a representative of the Nevada’s Third District. She serves on the various committees suchas the House Armed Services, and House Science, Space and Technology, and the Subcommitteeon Research and Technology and Energy (Davidson et al.11). She is also part of theCongressional Air Force Caucus, Problem Solvers Caucus, the Democratic Israel WorkingGroup, the Democratic Women’s Working Group, and the Bipartisan Taskforce for CombatingAnti-Semitism. This paper discusses the significance of Rosen membership and their impact onher congressional district.Significance of Jacky Rosen membershipRosen representation extends to Southern Nevada and the suburbs of Las Vegas. Her educationbackground in computer science enables her to make effective policies as she serves on theArmed Services Committee and House Science, Space and Technology. Her policies are notaimed only to benefit his congressional district but the whole UK at large. However, herincreased passion on CTE development and early childhood STEM education has providedvarious jobs to her congress area residents. Unemployment is an issue that affects millions of
Surname 2people worldwide, and Nevada is not an exemption (Swobe et al. 5). The youth especially, end-up engaging in various unethical matters such as crime and drugs due to the high rate ofunemployment. Rosen has lived in Nevada for so long and therefore, knows the needs of herresidents. STEM jobs do not require one to have a four-year college or university degree.Therefore, more jobs are created for youth who can engage in something useful and make a lifeout of it. As such, she proposed a bipartisan bill that would focus more on STEM education.These acts are the Code Like a Girl and Building Blocks of Stem Acts. Her interest in upliftingwomen to take part in the male-dominated industry such as STEM field is based primarily on hercongressional district needs. For instance, in Nevada, about 3, 000 jobs in computing areavailable, but there are no qualified candidates to fill. Therefore, her aim to promote variousopportunities for youths in Nevada has seen progress in youths, especially women and girls havebeen able to venture in technology-related courses and jobs. Technology plays a vital role in thegrowth of businesses and organizations and consequently, the overall development of a country.Technology promotes innovation and invention which is crucial to business success. Thesepolicies do not only have a positive impact on Nevada’s people but the whole United States(US). By producing qualified youth in technology, US can expand its economy as well asmaintain its global competitiveness. She has also shaped her district people to become problemsolvers through ACTE organization (Toglia 24). Nevada is known for producing great engineerslike Hoover Dam who has explored various frontiers in science, technology, and computing.Fights for sustainable energy Rosen has invested substantially in energy and infrastructure in Nevada. Through this, she wasable to create good-paying jobs for Nevada people. She has also trained her people on theimportance of working smart as compared to working harder. Through membership in the
Surname 3committee, she has been able to fight for and against various bills directed to water and energydevelopment. One of the amendments she fought against was the $120 million funding that wasset aside for licensing process to create a nuclear waste repository at the Nevada’s YuccaMountain. Together with other two Nevada’s lawmakers; Rep. Dina Titus and Rep. RubenKihuen, they emphasized that Yucca Mountain is not and should not be treated as a dumping sitefor nuclear waste. As the committee sat to deliberate on this issue, Jacky fought so hard to ensurethe licensing process did not go through. While other neighboring county representatives ofNevada supported the restarting process, she knew the impact the site would have to Nevadaresidents if the bill was passed. The Yucca Mountain was approved as the site viable for nuclearwaste disposal by the Congress in 1987 based on the nation’s energy generating plants (Rechardet al. 16). The federal government, therefore, has spent $15 billion since then in trying todetermine the viability of the site as well as in developing it. When President Donald Trumpadded more $120 million to the review of the project, Rosen termed the move as imperativesince it would more risk to Nevada’s residents. The safety of the site was in question, and Rosenvowed to fight to the end for her people. The fact that the location is immediate to a fault line, itwas crucial to take precautionary measures to protect the Nevada people.Jacky advocating for public schools strengtheningRosen is very open in providing quality education for her district men. That why she was sodisappointed when her fellow Republicans failed to reauthorize loans for students, especially thePerkins student loan program. According to Rosen, the loan program has seen a countlessnumber of students particularly those from low-income families go through college educationcomfortably. Jacky noted that school going children in Nevada did not perform so well insciences and Mathematics. This year only 18% were able to reach proficiency in math for the 8th
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