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Leg_Title: Mandatory Physica Education
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Submitted_By: Charley Moody
School: Riverheads High School
Date: 09 Mar 2011
Time: 08:08:06

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Number: 8025
Leg_Title: Mandating physical activity in Virginia's Public Schools
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School: Central High School (Woodstock)
Date: 09 Mar 2011
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Number: 1337
Leg_Title: A Resolution to Maintain Relations With China
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Submitted_By: Ariel Rudy
School: Central High School
Date: 09 Mar 2011
Time: 16:04:16

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Area: V
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Leg_Title: Virginia Coastal Drilling
Line00: Be it resolved
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Submitted_By: Kelsey Morris
School: Riverheads High School
Date: 09 Mar 2011
Time: 19:19:56

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Leg_Title: Facilitating Elections in Africa
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Line01: WHEREAS many people in Africa are uneducated in the area of
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Submitted_By: Kayla Ackelson
School: Riverheads High School
Date: 10 Mar 2011
Time: 07:27:25

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Leg_Title: Instituting a Carbon Emission Tax
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: Whereas: The United States is becoming very polluted; and
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School: Stonewall Jackson High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 09:55:12

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Number: 100
Leg_Title: A Bill To Repeal The bush Tax Cuts
Line00: Be it enacted
Line01: by this Congress that the Bush Tax Cuts be repealed.
Line02: Section 1: The Bush Tax cuts as reaffirmed by Congress shall
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Submitted_By: Molly Brumfield
School: Madison County High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 10:01:08

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Legislation: Resolution #
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Number: 1
Leg_Title: Resolution to Support the Bush Tax Cuts
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: Whereas: The Bush tax cuts led to a low unemployment rate in
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Submitted_By: Brett Seekford
School: Stonewall Jackson High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 10:01:11

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Legislation: Resolution #
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Number: 102
Leg_Title: Resolution to Allow Drilling off of Virginia Shores
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Line01: WHEREAS, 130 million barrels of oil and 1.14
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Line09: WHEREAS, offshore drilling would bring thousands of jobs and
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Submitted_By: Maggie Vaillant
School: Madison County High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 10:09:39

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Number: 101
Leg_Title: A resolution to promote mars colonization
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Submitted_By: Ralph Fowler
School: Madison County High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 10:20:15

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Leg_Title: Bill to Eliminate the Death Tax
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Submitted_By: Amy Scheel
School: East Rockingham High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 11:57:38

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Leg_Title: Pakistan-United States relations
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Submitted_By: Kamilla Voznuk
School: East Rockingham High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 12:11:21

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Leg_Title: A BILL TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE AND STIMULATE THE ECONOM
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School: Madison County High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 12:22:38

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Number: 112
Leg_Title: RESOLUTION TO MANDATE CONTROL OF CARBON EMISSIONS
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Line01: WHEREAS, large oil companies, like Exxon, Amoco/BP, Shell,
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Submitted_By: Keriann Ketterman
School: Madison County High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 12:34:24

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Leg_Title: Oil exploration off the coast of Virginia
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Submitted_By: Victoria Munoz
School: East Rockingham High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 13:31:09

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Leg_Title: Oil exploration off the coast of Virginia
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Date: 11 Mar 2011
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Leg_Title: NASA Spending for Space Exploration
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Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 14:16:52

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Leg_Title: RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE PAKISTAN-CHINA ARGEEMENTS
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Line01: WHEREAS, in May, 2007, Pakistan and China signed twenty-
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Line08: WHEREAS, this agreement opened the new major port at
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Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 14:46:29

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Leg_Title: Resolution to Increase Funding to NASA for Space Exploration
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SubmitTitle: Representative
Submitted_By: Megan Kato
School: Stonewall Jackson High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 15:20:34

Docket: Docket A
Legislation: Resolution #
Area: V
Number: 1
Leg_Title: Resolution to Increase Funding for Physical Education in VA
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Line01: Whereas: Physical education receives a small amount of
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SubmitTitle: Representative
Submitted_By: Hunter Bowers
School: Stonewall Jackson High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 15:26:25

Docket: Docket A
Legislation: Resolution #
Area: I
Number: 1
Leg_Title: Resolution on Elections in Africa
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: Whereas: The United States is a country of liberty, it
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Line06: Whereas: If the United States goes and helps this can create
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SubmitTitle: Representative
Submitted_By: Maria Flores
School: Stonewall Jackson High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 15:39:29

Docket: Docket A
Legislation: Resolution #
Area: D
Number: 1
Leg_Title: Space Exploration
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: Space Exploration coast billions of dollars each year
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SubmitTitle: Representative
Submitted_By: Virginia Cline
School: Riverheads High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 18:04:51

Docket: Docket A
Legislation: Resolution #
Area: E
Number: 1
Leg_Title: Resolution to Create Universal Tax
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: Whereas: The typical American puts out over 33 % of their
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Line04: Whereas: Tax rates seem to be going higher and higher each
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SubmitTitle: Senator
Submitted_By: Leslie Marvin
School: Riverheads High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 18:34:13

Docket: Docket A
Legislation: Resolution #
Area: D
Number: 1
Leg_Title: Space Exploration
Line00: Be it resolved
Line01: WHEREAS:
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SubmitTitle: Representative
Submitted_By: Charlie Boll
School: Buffalo Gap High School
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Time: 19:04:52