KC, Missouri. I'm worried these people are scammers trying to take money from an old lady. She donates to the veterans and the Native Americans but I know nothing about this...
Missouri is being extra right now.
Check out this latest state bill: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
I really see no problem with the abundance of law backgrounds in Congress. I trust people who've been through law school to write and pass laws. Businessmen and engineers and doctors don't have the same background in knowledge of public policy and legislation. Should we have them in Congress? Sure, and we do, but the majority having law backgrounds sounds about right.
Name someone in congress who comes from an engineering background? You have people making laws who have no knowledge of business or engineering or healthcare. That is why you need diversity in congress. If you have people who already have experience in making laws you could use people with experience in certain areas of expertise so you don't have people making laws in a vacuum.
Sandra Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, did an interview with THE ROOT, setting the record straight about some people saying that HIllary and her camp were exploiting Geneva.
Name someone in congress who comes from an engineering background? You have people making laws who have no knowledge of business or engineering or healthcare. That is why you need diversity in congress. If you have people who already have experience in making laws you could use people with experience in certain areas of expertise so you don't have people making laws in a vacuum.
Not sure if you meant that as a rhetorical question, but there were apparently eleven in the 113th Congress (2013-2015). I couldn't find any information on the current Congress.
Members of the 113th Congress with engineering degrees: Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Joe Barton (R-TX), David McKinley (R-WV), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-MA), Steven Daines (R-MT), and Chris Collins (R-NY).
Business, education, agriculture and medicine seem to be decently represented as well, according to the source. 29.4% of the House and 48% of the Senate for the 113th Congress had law degrees, which isn't that bad imo.
Not sure if you meant that as a rhetorical question, but there were apparently eleven in the 113th Congress (2013-2015). I couldn't find any information on the current Congress.
Members of the 113th Congress with engineering degrees: Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Joe Barton (R-TX), David McKinley (R-WV), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-MA), Steven Daines (R-MT), and Chris Collins (R-NY).
Business, education, agriculture and medicine seem to be decently represented as well, according to the source. 29.4% of the House and 48% of the Senate for the 113th Congress had law degrees, which isn't that bad imo.
11 out of 400+ ... Do you think in the house that is a good representation given the scale of software and hardware engineering has on our economy in general? The two largest companies in the US are software and hardware companies yet less than 2% of our elected representatives in Congress have any knowledge of hardware or software engineering.
You're right about lawyers in the House. I still think 48% is way too high for the Senate. It' doesn't leave enough room for other subject matter experts.
The article you pointed out agrees with my premise.
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With the 2012 U.S. Elections firmly in the national rear view mirror, the new 113th Congress has begun its work to lead the U.S. through many domestic and international challenges. The 113th Congress --- a group with far more familiar than fresh faces, is the most diverse Congress to date. For the first time, women and ethnic minorities hold a majority amongst House Democrats.1 One area where diversity has stalled, however, is occupation, with few engineers and scientists represented in Congress.
Many lawyers have engineering degrees without ever having used the engineering in a real life work environment. I know many a person in law school who only got the engineering degree so that it would look good on their application for law school. Many real life engineers don't actually have engineering degrees. I know because I'm one of them. So... then there's that. I wouldn't call everyone an engineer simply because they have an engineering degree.
In a Black Church in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders Struggles to Get an ‘Amen’
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR FEB. 21, 2016
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — The problem began as soon as Bernie Sanders walked into the dining room of the revered and predominantly black Brookland Baptist Church here. Instead of flocking to him, as supporters do at his large college rallies, many of the church’s 780 members present looked up for a moment, then quietly went back to eating their Sunday feast — unmoved as Mr. Sanders, the senator from Vermont, tried to work the room.
Mr. Sanders delivered remarks at a microphone next to a buffet table offering chicken, collard greens and dinner rolls. “We have, in America today, a broken criminal justice system,” Mr. Sanders said at the microphone, pausing briefly after this line from his stump speech, which is usually met with applause. Here it garnered very little, and the line for the food kept moving. Brookland Baptist Church proved a tough crowd.
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Mr. Jealous, who introduced Mr. Sanders to the church, also failed to get the applause the team is accustomed to from crowds of mostly white voters.
“There are people who will say to you there is a dreamer who is running for president,” Mr. Jealous said, “and his dreams are so big, y’all shouldn’t dream that big. But in our community, when they tell us not to dream, we say, ‘Yes, we can.’ And so I ask you, ladies gentlemen, are you ready to dream big?”
“Amen,” said one woman, Karen Brooker, 46, who later said she was undecided.
Mr. Jealous tried again.
“No, no, no. Are you ready to dream big?” Mr. Jealous said.
“Yes. Fired up,” a few more in the crowd offered. Most continued to eat silently.
You can't say he isn't trying, I feel bad for him. Though I wish someone told him not to try to speak to black folks while they're eating, Ben Jealous set him up to fail here.
You can't say he isn't trying, I feel bad for him. Though I wish someone told him not to try to speak to black folks while they're eating, Ben Jealous set him up to fail here.
You should delete like 75% of the article from quotes. I think you could get a WP for "infringement."
You can't say he isn't trying, I feel bad for him. Though I wish someone told him not to try to speak to black folks while they're eating, Ben Jealous set him up to fail here.
You can't say he isn't trying, I feel bad for him. Though I wish someone told him not to try to speak to black folks while they're eating, Ben Jealous set him up to fail here.
Poor Bernie... That was the most awkward speech of his I've seen... He probably should have chosen a different time other than when people are eating...
Though I wish someone told him not to try to speak to black folks while they're eating, Ben Jealous set him up to fail here. 
