Essays on Congress

There are various regulations that tend to influence the APRN practice. Therefore, the paper will entail an analysis of such regulations, basing its focus on the research about the state legislator’s position on the health care issues and nursing, as well as the position of the federal legislator’s position on the same subject. In addition, there will be an analysis of the lobbyist for the state nurses’ association, as well as the position of the nurses’ association on the legislation in operation and its candidates. For that matter, the state of choice for the analysis is Washington ...

Introduction

The Civil Right Restoration Act of 1987, also known as Groove City Bill, is a US bill, which dealt with governing of the federal money in the institutions in order to guarantee the execution of civil rights (Safransky, 2017). Its main task was to bring non-discrimination laws back into action. On February 1987, Senator Kennedy introduced the ‘Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987’ (Lewis & Dale, 1988). The act was one of the most important legislative documents at that time. Its significance can be compared to the 1972 Amendments. The Act deals with three federal laws. They are the Title ...

Assignment Executive Summary

Introduction Delivery of quality services is a priority in healthcare as excellence determines patient outcomes. Various factors affect quality service delivery in health facilities. Healthcare facilities employ the most competent healthcare professionals yet patients continue to receive poor quality services. The hospital setting is dynamic as different personnel are responsible for the patient’s well being. Proper communication structures between health professionals reduce chances of information misinterpretation or conveyance of erroneous information. Both medical and non-medical factors affect the quality of service. According to Hughes (2008), delivery of poor services occurs because of errors within the healthcare system. For ...

Introduction

The Congress plays a critical role in the running of a state by performing several functions. It is formed by members who are elected by people to represent them on matters about the making and passing of the laws of the state. It is mainly involved in the making and passing of the bills and budgets of a country. Therefore, it is evident that the Congress is a critical organ in the governing of a country. As a vital organ of the government, Congress ensures that the strategic intelligence of the country is controlled in the most appropriate way. ...

Term limits are an essential part of legislative control, but the processes also detriment the welfare of central actors in the system. Actors in the legislative system especially the members of the Senate are regarded in the office stay, and their careers also conform to the same criteria. Limitations in the American legislature deter the existence of service deliveries in public. Moreover, the fact that the advocacy was acquired through the use of voters has approval enhancing the functioning of the legislature. Principally, the essence of term limits was orchestrated under the participation of Congressmen from large states in ...

Many of the foreigners who came to India were as a result of trade in the 17th century; the traders began conquering territories in India over the years. After the fall of Bengal in the battle of Plassey, the British moved in and divided India through force of arms (Singh, 1984). During World War II, British and other European colonial empires experienced a strain leading to the other European colonial empires relieving the colonial grip on Asia and Africa. However, Britain was not part of the release of the colonial states. The National Congress of India proposed to support ...

The contemporary situation in the U.S. regarding its foreign policy is still unknown. By and large, the latter’s foundations for the next four years will be defined by the President through his behavior on the international arena and the relevant orders. However, the stable to some extent foreign policy of the United States can be different from the previous years. In fact, the worries have been expressed throughout the presidential campaign, as two adverse points of view were supported. One of them was to remain the supporter of NATO, alien for all the friendly states of Europe, East ...

Perhaps one of the most commonly known rights guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution is the Fourth Amendment’s “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches” (U.S. Const. amend IV). Interestingly, while the meaning of the term “unreasonable” might seem intuitive, the Framers of the Constitution did not provide a specific or detailed definition of it. However, after the Supreme Court; relying on the fact that Article III of the Constitution vested the Court with the judicial power to “all cases” that arise under the “Constitution, ...

Historical Role of the Executive in Health Care Policy

Historically, the executive branch of the government has been involved in the preparation of policies associated with health care some of which have played a central role in building better platforms for women to access quality health care services. The head of the executive branch, who is the President, engages in discussions with different stakeholders in a bid to finding amicable avenues for the enactment of policies that would support the delivery of health care services to the women. Before implementation of any policy touching on the health of women in the country, it has become important for leaders ...

One of the most interesting laws created by Congress was the Cyber Security Act of 2015. It was created as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act signed by President Barack Obama that year. The Act limited government use of collected online information and how information could be shared between different nongovernment organizations and different levels of government. The bill may also have increased government oversight as well, considering the fact that the Department of Homeland Security now has increased access to networks to protect against terrorism and espionage. The Act has a “provider exception” (Kerr, 2015), which allows individual ...

Introduction

The First Persian Gulf War was triggered in August 1990 when Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait for their oil reserves and ensuring their debts were cancelled. Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait were guilty of slant drilling and over production, of crude oil, which significantly hurt the Iraqi economy as they were reeling from the after-effects of a long war with Iran. Different historians present their own reasons for the start and the First Persian Gulf War and factors behind the involvement of the global coalition to defeat Iraq.

Findings

Geoff Simons mentions his book, Iraq: From Sumer to ...

Sports betting has become commonplace around the world with many countries not criminalizing, but instead, regulating it. In the United States, betting schemes are illegal except in the states of Montana, Nevada, Delaware and Oregon. Over the recent years, various states have begun agitating for the legalization of sports betting. States like New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New York have introduced legislations that attempt to legalize sports betting in contravention to the federal government's, Professional and Amateur Sports Prevention Act (PASPA) which prohibits which has provisions which prohibit wagering in single game sports in all states in ...

Introduction

Senator Kennedy introduced the Civil Right Restoration Act of 1987 on 20 February 1987 (Lewis & Dale, 1988). This Act amended title IX, which prohibited the discrimination of sex. In addition, it influenced Vocational Rehabilitation Act, Age Discrimination Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Robinson, Allen, Franklin, 1989). Title IX deals with the Education Amendments (1972). It defines the following entities, which use Federal funds: local and State government instrumentality; universities, colleges, and all the other institutions of public higher education; corporations, and private organizations. Religious organizations do not belong to this list (S.557, 1988).

Population at risk

This act influences ...

BODY CAMERAS TO BENEFIT POLICE AND CITIZENS

There is a sustained perception by minority groups such as African-Americans that the law enforcement officers treat discriminately. This has increased incidences of police involvement against the demographics. However, the introduction and use of body cameras come as a panacea towards bringing to an end the unprecedented cases of police brutality and use of excessive force. In addition, civil suits concerning police brutality launched by African Americans are expected to reduce the involvement of body cameras. According to the H.Res.16, the wearing of body cameras by local law enforcement agencies while serving the communities encourages transparency and protects both ...

The constitution of the United States provides balance war powers for the legislative and the executive branches of the government. During the war, the constitution provides the authority for the president to be the commander-in-chief or the highest governing individual. On the other hand, the authority to declare war is given by the constitution to the congress (Findley & Fraser, 2008). The division of powers according to constitution is considered harmonious until concerns and issues arose after the Vietnam War (Library of Congress, 2015). The congress has been concerned regarding the deployment of United States troops in hostile areas in ...

Is the Current Student Loan Policy in the United States Fair and Equitable?

Is the Current Student Loan Policy in the United States Fair and Equitable? The student loan policy tries to accommodate the needs of various students through grants, borrowing limits, loans, and federal work-study programs among others (Blumenthal, n.d.). Despite its effort to improve the affordability of education for all, there is still a challenge that hinders the fairness and equitability of the policy in the USA. The high interest rates scare students who are uncertain about their ability to repay the loans. Many post-traditional learners who seek educational advancement, for instance, work in low-paying jobs. It makes it difficult ...

Introduction

In the United States, some bodies have been formed with the aim of preventing consumer and investor exploitation. These bodies are aimed at providing financial protection to the citizens. Some special laws such as Usury laws have also been formed to protect the citizens from exploitation. These bodies include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, the Security Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (Mckay & Seale, 2000).

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and its purpose

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent public corporation based in the United States. It was formed in the year 1933 ...

Immediately after assuming the presidency, George H. Bush had to deal with the enormous deficit the country was in while simultaneously dealing with the American people who expected him to follow Reagan’s policies. Bush also had to contend with being the leader of a Democratic controlled Congress that fought his decisions at every turn because they believed the best solution would be to raise taxes while the Republicans wanted to cut government spending. Thus when one evaluates George H. Bush’s presidency, it is important to keep in mind that even if he had meant to keep the ...

Interaction between the three branches of power

"Trias politica", as it was formulated in the 18th century, includes separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government (Peterson). An important element in it is the system of checks and balances, which guarantees that none of the three should dominate the others. This is ensured by empowering each branch to have its own set of powers (balances), and some of the competencies of each branch make sure that another branch doesn't abuse its power (checks). Here are just a few examples: Checks on the executive branch by the legislative branch: The Congress can override ...

The Documents

The Declaration of Independence Among the founding documents of the American republic the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States share primacy. First in time was the Declaration of Independence. Prepared by the Continental Congress over a year after the American Revolution had started with the battles at Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, the Declaration was silent on the question of religious freedom. In Jefferson’s words, which still ring down across almost two and a half centuries, the Declaration is firmly based on the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and, of ...

Question 1

A faction is a group of individuals, comprising of members drawn from either a majority or a minority, who are opposed to the common interests of the larger society. Madison states that the motives of a faction are driven by passion or selfish interests (Congress, n.d.).

Question 2

A democratic government comprises of a small number of citizens who gather and administer the government in person. As such, there are no mechanisms or structures to limit the effects of a faction. In such governments, the effects of a faction are most likely to ripple out and affect the majority explaining why ...

The United States government with the aim of enhancing the government security against both domestic and foreign terrorist activities enacted the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions of the Act were to ensure the government put in place necessary investigatory equipment that would help the government to detect and neutralize these activities before it happens (Congress, 2002). However, the Act is modifiable to improve its effectiveness in counteracting terrorism. Most importantly, the law should categorize the necessary tools for investigation set aside. In particular, this is because terrorism activities of the 21st century and beyond use high-level technology and therefore ...

The United States of America have gone a fairly long way of establishment. Starting as a number of colonies, and ending up as one of the most powerful countries in the contemporary world, the U.S. has proved that nothing is impossible, and that mistakes can only lead to the better future. One of the greatest examples for this statement would be the existence of the Articles of Confederation, with all their vices, because it were the wrongs in this document that made it possible for the Constitution to be written. The present paper is meant to dwell upon the ...

ABSTRACT

One of the interesting unique aspects of the American legal system is that it really is two systems, namely one at the federal level and one at the state level. Generally, the two systems have little interaction. That is to say, the federal legal system focuses on issues involving the federal government, foreign affairs, and relations between the states. Conversely, the state legal system focuses on matters state specific matters such as education and healthcare. Two areas, however, where the state and federal legal system often interact and occasional collide is immigration and crime. The 2012 Supreme Court case, ...

as Environment Policy

Effectiveness of Carbon Tax as Environment Policy

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because unrestrained rising of global temperature would cause melting of glaciers and rise of sea level that would submerge land masses, change weather patterns with frequent incidence of hurricanes and floods and droughts. As an effective response to the challenge, global leaders have agreed to cut back emission of Green House Gases (GTG) to contain the global rise in temperature below 2 degree Celsius (Symon, 2013). Carbon dioxide, a major constituent of GTG, is released to the atmosphere on combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and ...

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

Introduction

The United States of America represents one of the most democratic nations in the world based on the history of the country. Americans have advocated for democracy through a number of movements that aimed at uniting or disintegrating Americans based on their agenda and goals. One of the issues that affected U.S. in the past and continues to portray its significance today is the discrimination against race, ethnicity, and color. White people felt as if they owned the country and looked for strategies to get rid of blacks through denying them some basic needs and using violence means to ...

Introduction:

Event management applies the use of the skills of project management to create and develop both small and large scale events that include a great deal of planning and logistics such as ceremonies, conferences, weddings, formal and informal parties among others. The field involves identifying the target audience, coming up with concepts that are related to the event and relating the technical aspects of the event beforehand. Event management is merged to serve as the marketing tool for the event being organized. In this case, event organizers devise the best methods they can employ to reach the target audience ...

Question 1 Response: Creating a new Constitution was vital to the unity of the United States of America since the Articles of Confederation weren’t sufficient for good government. If there was any evidence of this, it was that the United States was clearly bankrupt and now needed to be organized in such a manner that both the States and the Federal government had to share power in such a manner that everyone’s interests were kept in mind. A centralized approach was key to putting the country back on track. Hence, a meeting was held in the Pennsylvania ...

The primary difference between the speeches President Woodrow Wilson gave before Congress in January 1917 and January 1918 was his tone. Naturally, the tone that a president uses has a deep influence on a broad range of circumstances. While the focus of both speeches was the ongoing conflict in Europe and what the United States could do to help facilitate its resolution; the tone of the 1917 speech was more idealistic, hopeful and indefinite, and the 1918 speech was more practical, pessimistic and direct. In the 1917 speech, Wilson illustrated his hopefulness on the belief that the warring parties ...

Policy Analysis: Issue of Health Disparities in Alaska Natives and American Indians

Health disparities among Alaska Natives and American Indians (AI/ANs) have been reported since the initial contact that occurred nearly 500 years in the past. Moreover, the disparities are common in every age and across a wide spectrum of various disease categories (Sarche & Spicer, 2008). Accordingly, AI/ANs endure persistent health disparities that include health status decline, barriers to essential health services, and high uninsured rates. The group also experiences a lower status of health in comparison to other Americans (Frizzell, 2016). The disproportionate burden of disease and reduced life expectancy in AI/ANs can be attributed to cultural differences, discrimination in ...

When the Bolshevik lead by Vladimir Lenin took control of the Soviet Union after the Soviet Revolution overthrew the Romanovs. Lenin had felt that the capitalism of the Soviet Union was what enabled the people to have a successful Socialist revolt against the government. The Bolsheviks worked to organize the farmers and those who worked in factories against the government. This was because they felt that threatening the production of the country would work for the Romanovs to meet their demands. One such demand was that they wanted the Soviet Union to end their war with Austria and Germany. ...

1. Money Talks in Context Money Talks is created by Udo J. Keppler on September 12, 1906 of photomechanical print, offset and color (Keppler). The illustration, published by J. Ottmann Lith. Co., shows legendary newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst sitting and "cuddling" two money bags resting on his lap with arms and legs and showing coins as heads. Next to Hearst is a box labeled "WRH Ventriloquist". This vivid illustration underscores, if anything, Hearst's reputation for wealth, influence and flash life as is explained in further detail in next sections. 2. Money Talks: Encoded, Visual Messages As shown below, ...

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The Safe Havens of Global Cities In his article, “The West’s Major Cities are a Bulwark Against the Tide of Right-Wing Nationalism,” Ishaan Tharoor writes about the celebration in London of the Battle of Cable Street, which was a protest that had various groups coming together to prevent a group of fascists from marching over eighty years ago (Tharoor). It was a time when there was a dangerous level of hatred and anger directed at the Jewish communities in Europe (Tharoor). Indeed, the events taking place at the time of those original Cable Street protests, occurred in ...

The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law that restricts freedom of expression or of the press. Such wording restricts state power as a greater and a lesser degree compared to what it could do in this regard if the wording used in the literal sense. The said formulation limits the power of the state to a greater extent in the sense that it applies not only to Congress but to all branches of the federal government, all branches of state governments and local authorities. The wording in question, limit state power to ...

Federalism in the United States has evolved over the past 200 years from an arrangement where state and national government powers and responsibilities were clearly distinct and separate, to one in which the line of distinction between the two has blurred. When the framers drafted the Constitution, they provided separate powers to the federal government in Article One. A few of these clauses extended the power of the national government in order to prevent the hazards faced by the Articles of Confederation. In order to ensure that limitations still existed on the federal government, the Tenth Amendment was included. ...

Overview

Discrimination has a lasting effect on employees who are on its receiving end. One who experiences discrimination at their workplace develops feelings of being vulnerable and in many cases loses interest in their work and career development. Such employees end up suing their organisations to fight for their rights. This causes a lot of unwarranted expenses to the organisation when it actually can be avoided. Discrimination at workplaces is often brought about by differences in race, sexuality, religion, age, sex and national origin. Other minor forms of discrimination include employee's limitation regarding their physical ability or educational level. Such ...

On November 5, 2009, the son of Palestinian immigrants, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan randomly fired into a crowd at a processing center at Fort Hood, the largest active-duty military post in the country (Army Major kills, n.d.). One would be hard pressed to find a larger military stage to conduct such blatant murder. Despite the Major shouting ‘God is great’ in Arabic, “Allahu Akbar”, just before he opened fire on soldiers who were either returning from deployment, or getting ready to be deployed, there was a denial by the government to officially label the shooting as an act ...

Industrialization after the Civil War

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Political Development .5 Social Development 7 Conclusion ..8 Reference ..10 Introduction The American Civil War of 1861-1865 was a historical momentum of great significance. The capitalists of the North beat the South and thus determined the development of the whole State for the years to come. Due to the immense amount of natural resources, which facilitated the industrialization of the United States, the latter was also able to adopt the capitalist theories and implement them. The Civil War was a milestone in history which boosted the general development of the State and its industrialization, ...

When entering his first term as president, Bush faced the challenge of keeping up with Reagan’s policies to please his devout followers while at the same time having to deal with a Congress led by Democrats. To put it more simply, “Bush was thus threading the needle between maintaining fidelity to the Reagan legacy and offering something new” (Sinclair 2014). Bush also had to deal with the fact that the Democrats in Congress believed they could defy him without worrying about the consequences because they viewed their commander-in-chief as a man who gave vague promises with no actual ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

PART 1

Some of the Congressional powers are the power to tax, the power to regulate commerce and the power to regulate immigration. For 150 years, the limits of the tax power was in issue (Sky 2008), but finally US v. Butler, 297 US 1 (1936) held that it is broad and limited only by the requirement of general welfare. If not reposed in Congress, the federal government cannot raise funds for social services. Life will not be fair because poorer states will have poorer services compared to richer states. The power to regulate commerce was initially vague because ‘commerce’ is ...

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Is the Separation of Church and State in America Real?

Introduction

The United States is supposed to be a nation in which there is a defined separation of church and state. This means that anything the provides preference of one religion over another should not be permitted in public institutions. These institutions include, public schools, federal buildings, the federal government, and the White House. However, due to machinations of numerous political parties throughout America’s history the separation of church and state is not as defined as it is supposed to be. Many Christian groups have continually fought to push ...

After the conclusion of the American Civil War (1861-1865), the United States forces returned to front line duties such as engaging in brutal combat with Native American tribes and controlling domestic disorders. The next significant war took place in 1898 when the federal government endorsed military aid for the Cuban revolutions being waged against the Spanish Empire. It was during what would later be known as the Spanish-American War that the weaknesses of the United States Army and Navy became evident. Apparently, rather than building a strong force after their Civil War, the US units either demobilized or only ...

The Affordable Care Act— also sometimes known as “Obamacare”— is one of the most important defining features of the Obama administration, and one of the first things that has been done by the Trump administration is an attempted dismantling of the programs that Obama so carefully designed to protect the American people’s right to healthcare (Kodjak, 2017). From a policy perspective, dismantling Obamacare will be a long and arduous process for President-elect Trump; it is likely to be a difficult process, made worse by the extensive cost associated with re-working the insurance system yet again (Pear, 2017). Nearly ...

The Fourteenth Amendment is one of the most controversial laws in the US. The law comprises the bill of rights and has raised diverse views from different people as they seek to explain their understanding of some of the principles promoted by the amendment. One of the principles that is promoted by the Fourteenth amendment is the due process. The clause of due process ensures that states do not interfere with a citizens basic interests without following the due procedure. It is important to understand that each and every citizen has their rights and they are innocent in the ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Introduction

Digital archiving and preservation ensures that digital content remains in a format that is usable and accessible both in the present period and in the future. In the context of an organization, digital preservation is a process that involves planning, resourcing, and actual archiving using relevant technologies and applications. In the case of an institutional repository as this university, it is necessary to have policies and regulations that would guide the digital archiving and preservation program. Such policies would serve as a guide for the program while setting out its objectives. It is therefore necessary to have an evaluation ...

Pollution from agricultural runoff has brought great danger to both human beings and the organisms that live in water. Various chemicals used in crop production are dragged into water sources, poisoning the water (Kennen & Kirkwood, 2015). This poses a danger to the existence of living organisms. Consumption of contaminated water by humans leads to waterborne diseases such as cryptosporidiosis which causes diarrhea, vomiting, fever, weight loss, and stomach cramps (Lichtfouse, 2009). The essay below describes significant ways in which this form of pollution can be prevented. First, fencing of livestock grazing areas at about 100 meters from water sources ...

Introduction

Creativity exists a tenet of novel strategy that provides an acute and results-oriented process to existing problems. While creativity remains imperative in everyday solutions of predicaments, the overall success or imminent failure of the creative process as an insightful, and a rational means to an end is governed by the general approach and processes engaged. A myriad of decisions, policies, and laws in the United States have been subject to the creative thinking process. Evidentially, some have been successful, and some have failed. This essay will troubleshoot the general creative process that led to the failure of prohibition laws ...

Childhood obesity is a growing health concern with the National Conference of State Legislatures (2014) estimating that 31.7% of children and adolescents are either obese or overweight. Consequently, such a health concern has an impact on nursing. This is especially the case considering that obesity is associated with the patient being at a high risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and liver complications (Joshi, 2015). It is therefore important that policy imperatives be developed to tackle the problem. Some of primary areas of concern for a policy touching on childhood obesity include school nutrition, insurance coverage for affected ...

Question One

Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and Tom Cole are Oklahoma’s senators and representative respectively. Jim Inhofe is the senior senator in Oklahoma. Jim worked in aviation and insurance fields prior to joining the Congress. In fact, he was once the president of Quaker Life Insurance Company. He is the only individual in the Congress who has ever flown a plane. I like that this Republican has gradually nurtured his capabilities to venture into various life paths. He is stubbornly persistent. Despite losing the gubernatorial election in 1974, he was determined to crack the political arena. This is mainly evident ...

Introduction

Accessibility and user friendliness are integral for websites since one of their primary objectives is to expand their usefulness to many individuals. Web accessibility considers the needs of both the able-bodied and disabled persons with regards to their interaction, navigation, understanding, and perception of the web. This essay illustrates the user-friendliness and accessibility of the U.S. Congressional website, Congress.gov.

The Search for the Website and Affordable Care Act

My search commenced by typing in the words U.S. Congressional Website on the Google Search Tab. From the list provided, I clicked on the first option of Congress.Gov. On the Search Tab, I typed the terms Affordable Care Act and ...

Often abbreviated as SOX, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed by the U.S. Congress into law in 2002 (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2013). The Act was designed to restore public confidence in corporate financial reporting and to initiate reforms in protecting investors from the possibilities of accounting fraud (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], 2013). Congress also enacted SOX 2002 to improve the accuracy of corporate financial disclosures as well as shield the public from bookkeeping inaccuracies (SEC, 2013). According to Jahmani and Dowling (2008), the SOX 2002 was intended to not only advance the accuracy and reliability of ...

Introduction

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the dependence of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States of America. As a government agency, the NASA depends on a budget that the Congress of the United States assigns every year according to the priorities in investigation agreed between the Agency and the Government. There is an imminent risk for the NASA and all its subsidiaries, as the JPL (Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2016), that is the risk of failure. In the case of comparison with any firm or organization, as a corporation, the failure is very common, but it ...

Among the notable congresswomen in the USA is Renee Ellmers who is the North Carolina’s 2nd District representative since her first election in 2010. As a nurse, she has remained an outstanding healthcare policy maker sponsoring and supporting several bills that have led to changes in healthcare service delivery in the USA. On January 16, 2015, Ellmers introduced H.R. 398-a bill to train healthcare workers on trafficking with the aim of empowering them to identify victims of trafficking and respond appropriately and on time. In this regards, the bill proposed that government agencies would collaborate to create a ...

Institutionalization of Chinese politics since Deng Xiaoping:

The Chinese state and its relationship to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been by far the most significant factor in determining the level of institutionalization of Chinese politics. Chinese politics was highly shaped during the revolutionary and Maoist periods by the power of the CCP. The CCP’s role in the revolution and its creation of a particular state form highly influenced the state form. The Chinese state under Mao was revolutionary inasmuch as it was primarily focused on class struggle as its primary role. This changed after Mao’s death and the rise of Deng Xiaoping and ...

Chapter 3: The Case of Barr v. Goldberg

The answer to the question of whether the cases from New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon are precedent depends on whether the trial judge is sitting in a federal court in Nevada or a Nevada State court. If it is a federal court, then the Oregon case would most likely be precedent whereas the Michigan and New Jersey cases would be persuasive. The reason for this is that the court system at the federal level is in essences, the same court divided into 13 circuits or regions that span the whole country. In other words, all federal courts apply federal law, ...

Linda Pierce

American Government GOVT2011603B-02 D. V. Villarrell The Branches of the Unites States Government IP2 The United States Constitution has ensured that the US government is divided into three separate branches-the executive, the legislative and the judicial, so there would be checks and balances and that neither one branch can abuse the power vested in it. However in times of war, emergency or a gridlock over a policy decision, the president can use his presidential powers to bypass the other two branches of the government and every president has issued executive decrees. For instance, President Obama has issued presidential orders ...

The core values St. Leo’s represents is applicable to the debate surrounding the ACA. St. Leo represents and firmly believes in community and integrity. The ACA is reportedly designed to provide for the welfare of the community, meaning Americans at large. The issue surrounding the ACA is that many say the provisions lack integrity due to various different reasons. Regardless of these issues, integrity is often defined as doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. World leaders and policy makers have a responsibility to maintain integrity to benefit the communities in which they live, whether ...