THE GLENBROOKS

CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE

PRELIMINARY SESSIONS LEGISLATION

2014
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A Bill to Cap Financial Institutions

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. Financial Institutions will be capped at 2% of the United States GDP.
3. Financial Institutions larger than $500 Billion in assets will be required to
4. retain capital equal to 15% of their total assets.
5. SECTION 2. Financial institutions include holding companies, investment banks,
6. financial service firms, and any entity that has been covered by federal
7. financial insurance or guarantee programs.
8. SECTION 3. The Federal Reserve will be in charge of implementation of this
9. legislation.
10. SECTION 4. This Legislation will take full affect by the Fiscal Year 2018
11. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Western High School
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The Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2014

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. The full text of the Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2014 (H.R. 1579) is
3. hereby enacted.
4. SECTION 2. The Inclusive Prosperity Act would implement a security-adjusted
5. Financial Transaction Tax on the "transfer of ownership of every financial
6. trade."
7. SECTION 3. The Department of Treasury will oversee the enforcement of this
8. legislation.
9. SECTION 4. This bill will be enacted within six months of passage.
10. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Respectfully submitted,
Rep. John Fadool
Lake Highland
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A Bill to Authorize the Department of Education to Issue

Grants to Help Pay Student Debt

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The United States Department of Education will issue $10 billion in
3. grants to help college graduates pay off their student debt.
4. SECTION 2. Student debt is defined as money owed to public or private institutions
5. of higher education, or to the government of the United States, due to currently unpaid
6. higher education loans.
7. SECTION 3. College graduates will be eligible for a grant if they submit an application
8. to the Department of Education showing that they have accumulated an amount of
9. student debt greater than their current yearly income, or that they are currently
10. unemployed but seeking a job. Applicants must also show that they have graduated
11. from an American institution of higher education with a grade point average of B or
12. higher. The Department of Education will design and conduct the application process,
13. select grant recipients on the basis of merit and need, and determine the size of each
14. grant as is appropriate.
15. SECTION 4. $10 billion will be cut from the United States national defense budget for
16. fiscal year 2016 in order to fund these grants.
17. SECTION 5. The Department of Education has until January 1, 2016 to organize this
18. program, at which point they will open the application process.
19. SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Jeff Holland of University School

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A Bill to Plant the Seed

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. The United States Federal Government shall hereby create a sustainable
3. bio-economy.
4. SECTION 2. A bio-economy is defined as an economy in which the agricultural and
5. biotech industries collaborate to provide enhanced food and fuel, instead of competing.
6. SECTION 3. With the passage of this bill, the following reforms will be enacted:
7. A. The agricultural and biotech sectors shall redefine
8. their relationship, promoting collaboration instead of competition.
9. B. The United States Federal Government shall appoint a super committee
10. within a year after the passage of this bill to oversee the merging of these
11. sectors and their progress.
12. C.The relationship of these sectors will remain for 7 years, and at the end it
13. will be reviewed by the super committee. If the economic effects of this
14. reformed relationship are reviewed as positive, the collaboration shall
15. continue. If not, the merged sectors will return to their current conditions.
16. SECTION 4. This bill shall be overseen by the Department of Agriculture and the
17. Department of Commerce.
18. SECTION 5. This bill will take effect after immediately its passage.
19. SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void
Respectfully submitted to the committee on
Economics by Will Neely, Glenbrook South
HS
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A Bill to Outlaw Payday Loans

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. This bill shall outlaw all payday loans of any kind.
3. SECTION 2. Payday loan is defined as a small, short-term unsecured loan given to
4. consumers with previous payroll and employment records.
5. SECTION 3. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be in charge of enforcing
6. regulations on payday lenders across the country.
7. SECTION 4. This bill shall be implemented immediately after passage.
8. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Respectfully Submitted by,

Alan Chang
Nova High School
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A Bill to Stimulate Government Privatization

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The United States government shall reduce administrative spending by
3. 10% through the privatization of federal service programs by 2020.
4. SECTION 2. Prior to the privatization of any government program, a comprehensive
5. analysis from an independent contractor must affirm that the privatized
6. program will save at least 10% versus the programs publicly-owned
7. counterpart.
8. Administrative spending shall be defined as the monetary costs of
9. funding government institutions.
10. SECTION 3. This legislation shall be enforced by the Office of Management and
11. Budget.
12. SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon passage.
13. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Srini Cherukuri and Melissa Tran, Schaumburg HS
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A Bill to Eliminate High Frequency Trading Firms to

Promote the Average Investor

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The capital gains tax rate for High Frequency Trading (HFT) activities
3. shall be raised from 15% to 90%.
4. SECTION 2. High Frequency Trading shall be defined as extremely high volume, but
5. low intraday and overnight inventory, as recognized by the U.S.
6. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
7. SECTION 3. The Internal Revenue Service at the US Department of the Treasury
8. (IRS) shall be responsible for enforcing this legislation.
9. i. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S.
10. Securities and
11. ii. Exchange Commission shall provide to the IRS a list of
12. designated HFT firms by the fifteenth day of January each year.
13. The U.S. Tax Court shall hear all appeals about designation.
14. SECTION 4. This bill shall go into effect as of the first of January after passage.
15. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Rep. Jonathan Shapiro, Beachwood HS.

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A Bill to Expand Power Africa to Somalia

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. Section 1. Power Africa shall be expanded to operate in Somalia.
3. Section 2. Power Africa shall be defined as the US government initiative that
4. attempts to increase access to electricity in Africa.
5. Section 3. USAID, along with the Department of State and the Department
6. of Energy will oversee the enforcement of this bill. The
7. enactment of this bill is contingent upon the Executive negotiating
8. reasonable terms with the Federal Government of Somalia
9. (Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya).
10. Section 4. All necessary funds for the enforcement of this bill will be
11. transferred from cuts made in the Department of Defenses
12. annual budget. A budgetary committee made up of the heads
13. from all individual sectors of the Department shall be given
14. responsibility for how and where to make cuts.
15. Section 4. This bill shall go into effect at the beginning of the next fiscal
16. year, October 1, 2015.
17. Section 5. All laws in conflict with this bill are hereby declared null and
18. void.

Respectfully submitted for Congressional Debate by,

Carla Troconis
East Chapel Hill High School
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A BILL TO MITIGATE THE ISIS CRISIS

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. 1,500 US Navy SEALs will be deployed in Iraq in addition to increasing
3. foreign aid to allies in the region.
4. SECTION 2. The United States will mobilize a broad coalition of allies in the region to
5. provide support for possible American military operations. The enlisted
6. countries will include Australia, Britain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
7. Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran.
8. SECTION 3. The Department of Defense, Department of State, and Central
9. Intelligence Agency shall enforce this legislation.
10. A. 200 million dollars will be given in foreign aid to Jordan, Saudi
11. Arabia, Turkey, and Iran to reinforce militarization forces along
12. Iraqs border. Each country will receive 50 million dollars in foreign aid.
13. B. If it is found that any country misappropriates these funds, then
14. the US will enforce temporary economic sanctions. The magnitude
15. of the sanctions will be relative to where and how the foreign aid
16. funds were redirected.
17. SECTION 4. This bill will be implemented immediately upon passage.
18. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Julia Lauer, The Bronx High School of Science
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A BILL TO PROTECT NORTH KOREANS

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The Department of State in correspondence with the Department of
3. Homeland Security and U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement
4. [ICE] should make every effort to facilitate the immediate care, family
5. reunification, and if necessary and appropriate, the adoption of any
6. eligible North Korean children living outside North Korea as de jure or de
7. facto stateless refugees as well as grant citizenship to defectors.
8. SECTION 2. The Secretary of State, in consultation with ICE shall develop a strategy
9. for facilitating the adoption of these North Korean Children, as well as
10. granting refugee status to the defectors.
11. SECTION 3. This legislation will go into effect immediately after passage. No later
12. than
13. i. 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
14. submit
15. ii. a written report to Congress that contains the details of the strategy
16. developed under this action.
17. SECTION 4. All definitions of terms are defined under S. 416, and shall be interpreted
18. as such.
19. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation will be deemed null and void.
Respectfully Submitted,
Rep. Taylor Bennington
Wooster High School, Ohio
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A Resolution to Urge Further Action on Cyber Warfare

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THIS CONGRESS THAT:

2. WHEREAS, Our basic infrastructure is reliant on technology. If a cyber attack were
3. to happen the effects would be devastating. Cyber Warfare is becoming
4. common and just as in the Geneva Convention established parameters
5. for war; parameters for Cyber Warfare need to be set; and
6. WHEREAS, Cyber Warfare could affect nearly every single person alive. If a
7. terrorist or or some hostile nation was to gain access to all of a
8. countrys computers due to a backdoor or bug such as the NSAs
9. backdoor the effects would devastate the country. This is a problem of
10. magnitude; and
11. WHEREAS, If such a convention is not held there would be no punishment or
12. consequence for a country being destroyed electronically. At the point
13. where nearly all a countrys secrets, army, and aid is stored or controlled
14. online there has to be parameters set to cyber warfare; and, therefore be
15. it
16. RESOLVED, By the Student Congress here assembled that a convention on cyber
17. warfare shall be held with the same goals as the Geneva Convention just
18. on Cyber Warfare.

Respectfully submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs by Brookfield East High School
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The REAP Act of 2014

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The United States shall pass the Refocusing Engagement in the Arabian
3. Peninsula Act of 2014 to hereby conditionally remove military presence
4. and end economic engagement with the countries of Kuwait and the
5. United Arab Emirates.
6. SECTION 2. The United States shall re-engage both militarily and economically with
7. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates if the following conditions are met:
8. i. Kuwait must make substantial gains in promoting human rights in its
9. nation, including a substantial increase in efforts to combat trafficking and
10. a decrease in government crackdown on protestors.
11. ii. The United Arab Emirates must cease to supply terrorist organizations
12. and countries such as Iran with US technology and products.
13. SECTION 3. If either country is found to have violated the terms of this legislation after
14. the US begins re-engagement, the US will again disengage militarily and
15. economically with the offending country.
16. SECTION 4. The Department of State shall oversee this legislation with the
17. Department of Defense and Department of Treasury.
18. SECTION 5. This legislation will go into effect at the start of FY 2016.
19. SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Respectfully submitted by the Harker School
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A Bill to Stop the 1033 Program

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. The United States will discontinue The Department of Defense Excess
3. Property Program and recollect all assault weapons and armored vehicles.
4. SECTION 2. The 1033 provides state and local governments with military surplus
5. items.
6. SECTION 3. The Defense Logistics Agency's Law Enforcement Support Office will see
7. to the implementation and will recollect all assault weapons and armored
8. vehicles which would other-wise not be used in a civilian environment.
9. Police departments that fail to comply will be fined up to one million
10. dollars by the department of defense. Criminal trails may be initiated if a
11. police department fails to comply after a initial fine, the charged will be
12. those of authority.
13. SECTION 4. The implementation of this legislation will take place sixth months after
14. passage.
15. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Submitted for congressional debate by Kevin Casas from Miami Beach Senior High
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Domestic Shale Investment Act

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. $5 billion dollars is hereby allocated to fund domestic shale research and
3. mining.
4. SECTION 2. Domestic will be defined as within the borders of the United States.
5. SECTION 3. Mining will take place in the Eagle Ford Shale formation in Texas.
6. SECTION 4. The money coming from the mining will go into funding domestic
7. infrastructure and decreasing national debt.
8. SECTION 5. The Department of Interior will oversee this.
9. SECTION 6. This law will take effect within one year of passage.
10. SECTION 7. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Submitted for Congressional Debate by Chanhassen High School
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A Bill to Reduce Pharmaceutical Costs

BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

1 SECTION 1. Section 1860D-11 (i), the NONINTERFERENCE clause of the Medicare
2 Modernization Act of 2003 shall be repealed, and replaced with the
3 FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY clause.
4 SECTION 2a. The FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY clause shall read as follows:
5 In order to promote competition under this part and in carrying out this
6 part, the Secretary shall:
7 (1) require PDP sponsors to negotiate prices with drug
8 manufacturers in order to minimize out of pocket costs for plan
9 enrollees; and,
10 (2) establish a pricing formula for the reimbursement of covered
11 Medicare Part D drugs such that the cost of pharmaceuticals to the
12 Medicare program is minimized to the greatest extent possible.
13 2b. Existing plans between PDPs and pharmaceutical companies will not
14 be affected by this legislation.
15 SECTION 3. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shall oversee the
16 implementation of the changes to Section 1860D.
17 SECTION 4. This bill will take effect six months after passage.
18 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced by Rep. Alex Wakefield, Desert Vista High School
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A BILL TO SAVE
THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1. New teachers shall have all of their outstanding student loans forgiven.
3. SECTION 2. New teachers shall be defined as public school teachers hired after the
4. implementation of this legislation, who agree to work as teachers for at
5. least three consecutive years, and hold an applicable degree.
6. SECTION 3. The Reserve Officer Training Corps will no longer accept new cadets.
7. Funding for new cadets shall be reallocated to fund Section 1.
8. SECTION 4. The Department of Education in conjunction with the Department of
9. Defense shall oversee the implementation of this legislation.
10. SECTION 4. This legislation shall go into effect immediately upon passage.
11. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Respectfully submitted,

Rep. Jack Belk

Saint Thomas Aquinas
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A BILL TO ENCOURAGE THE TEACHING OF

SECOND LANGUAGES
1. Be it enacted by this Student Congress that states that implement a secondary language
2. program starting with elementary school students in their public schools shall receive an
3. educational grant.
4. Section 1: Secondary language programs shall be defined as any program that aims to teach
5. students to be fluently bilingual by the time of graduation. These programs will
6. start at first grade.
7. Section 2: Each state that implements a secondary language program shall be given an
8. educational grant to the amount of $100,000.
9. Section 3: The United States Department of Education will be responsible for distributing
10. the grants.
11. Section 4: This bill will be enacted for the school year of 2016.

Respectfully submitted,
Sheboygan South High School
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A Bill to Maintain Net Neutrality

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2. SECTION 1: All Internet Service Providers shall hereby be reclassified
3. as common carriers and as 'telecommunications' under Title
4. II of the Communications Act.
5. SECTION 2: A common carrier shall be defined as any person or
6. company that transports goods or people for any person or
7. company and offers its services to the general public under
8. license or authority provided by a regulatory body.
9. Under this designation, Internet Service Providers shall be
10. hereby be subject to any and all regulation by the Federal
11. Communications Commission, including provisions for
12. maintenance of net neutrality. Net neutrality shall be defined
13. as the fair and equal treatment of all transferred data across the
14. Internet.
15. SECTION 3: This bill will be overseen by the FCC
16.SECTION 4: This bill will come into effect immediately upon passage.
17.SECTION 5: All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared
18. null and void.

Respectfully submitted to the Committee of Public Welfare,

Ethan Castro
Elias Zenkich
Elk Grove High School
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A Resolution to Utilize Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols

1. WHEREAS, the problem of climate change is not being adequately addressed with
2. substantive measures resulting in an alleviation of the symptoms of climate
3. change; and
4. WHEREAS, the use of stratospheric sulfate aerosols will provide a buffer of at least 20
5. years of the major symptoms of climate change to begin appearing in
6. excess; and
7. WHEREAS, the use of stratospheric sulfate aerosols is over 100 times cheaper per year
8. than reducing the CO2 concentrations by the same amount by means of
9. carbon reduction measures in the energy sector; and
10. WHEREAS, $60 billion dollars of funding per year for 5 years will be received by the
11. National Academy of Sciences for their appropriation in private or public
12. investment as they deem appropriate with supervision of funds to ensure
13. proper usage overseen by the National Science and Technology Council;
14. now, therefore, be it
15. RESOLVED, That the Congress here assembled assign funding to be used for
16. stratospheric sulfate aerosols to ensure that the tangible effects of climate
17. change can be felt at the appropriate time.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Bellaire High School
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A Bill to Assist the Prevention of Prescription Drug Abuse

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS ASSEMBLED HERE THAT:
2. SECTION 1. The Public Health Service Act shall be amended to allocate $200 million
3. annually as funding to states and nonprofit entities for consumer education
4. about opioid abuse. The Controlled Substances Act shall be Amended to
5. require further training for persons authorized to prescribe or dispense opioids.
6. $350 million shall be allocated annually to fund this training.
7. SECTION 2. Opioids shall be defined as painkillers made from opium-like compounds
8. that bind to opioid receptors in the human body including, but not limited to,
9. morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone.
10. SECTION 3. This legislation shall be overseen by the Substance Abuse and Mental
11. Health Services Administration and Department of Public Health.
12. SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect January 1, 2016.
13. SECTION 5. All other laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and
14. void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Monte Vista High School
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A Bill to Legalize Marijuana to Rejuvenate the Educational System

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. A. Marijuana is now legalized for all purposes within the United
3. States.
4. B. A 15% excise tax shall be placed on the sale of Marijuana.
5. C. The revenue obtained from section 1B shall go towards
6. improving education within the United States.
7. SECTION 2. Marijuana may also be known as Cannabis, a drug currently illegal
8. within the United States.
9. SECTION 3. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as well
10. as the
11. A. Department of Education shall oversee the enforcement of this
12. Legislation.
13. B. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
14. shall oversee the regulation of Marijuana.
15. C. The Department of Education shall distribute educational funds
16. to state governments in need of funds for developing impoverished
17. primary, junior high, and high schools.
18. SECTION 4. This Legislation shall take effect Fiscal Year 2016
19. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null
20. and void.

Respectfully submitted for Congressional Debate by Whitefish High School.