Georgia North Mountain District Big Questions Debate

2018 — Canton, GA/US

District Congress Session I 2018

2018 Legislative Docket

1

Designate Pakistan as a State Sponsor of Terror

Plano West Senior

2

Authorize the Use of Agent Orange in the Fight Against Cocaine and Heroin

Tascosa

3

Sanction Myanmar to Reduce Violence to the Rohingyas

Northland Christian

4

Enforce the Probable Cause Standard to Combat the School to Prison Pipeline

Clark (Plano)

5

Increase Funding for Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

Klein

6

Regulate Google and Facebook as Public Utilities

Bellaire

7

Increase Aid to Somalia to Promote Stability

Clements

8

Provide Humanitarian Assistance to Decrease Hunger within Uganda

Klein Oak

9

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2017

Lindale

10

Limit Child Marriages

James E. Taylor

11

Close the Prisoner Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Concordia Lutheran

12

Ban the Use of Forensic Science in Courtrooms in the United States

James Bowie

13

Subsidize Urban Electric Vehicles (UEVs) to Reduce American Dependence

Plano Senior

14

Garbage Used to Negate Catastrophe Act (GUNC Act)

Katy

15

Increase Sanctions in Venezuela in Order to Encourage Economic 

Champion (Boerne)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 1. A Resolution to Designate Pakistan as a State Sponsor of Terror

 

WHEREAS,       Terrorism has emerged as one of the largest threats to global peace and security; and

WHEREAS,       Terrorist organizations have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives over the last decade; and

WHEREAS,       The support of Pakistan’s military and Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate helped create these terrorist groups; and

WHEREAS,       Pakistan currently harbors more than ten terrorist organizations, including the Taliban and Al-Qaeda; and

WHEREAS,       Without Pakistani support and safe haven, these terrorist organizations would not have been able to wage a successful insurgency; and

WHEREAS,       The United States has still refused to recognize Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the Congress here assembled make the following recommendation to officially designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the United States impose targeted sanctions against select military and intelligencelinked Pakistani companies until the country’s support for terrorists is halted.

TFA Spring 2018 Item 2. A Resolution to Authorize the Use of Agent Orange in the Fight Against Cocaine and Heroin

WHEREAS,       The United States government has designated the nations of Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela as nations that have failed demonstrably to fulfill their obligations under international counternarcotic agreements to adequately combat drug trafficking; and

WHEREAS,       The vast majority of cocaine and heroin in the United States is smuggled in through other countries rather than grown in the United States; and

WHEREAS,       The governments of the nations previously listed are currently incapable of countering the vast opium and coca crops that fuel the illicit drug trade; and

WHEREAS,       Agent Orange is an effective herbicide which could help ensure long-term destruction of the capacity of drug traffickers in the aforementioned nations to grow drug crops; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the Congress here assembled authorize the production of Agent Orange and its use against opium and coca crops in the Bolivia, Burma and Venezuela.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 3. A Resolution to Sanction Myanmar to Reduce Violence to the Rohingyas

WHEREAS,       The Rohingya Muslims are being actively persecuted in Myanmar and the government is refusing to recognize them as one of the country’s ethnic groups; and

WHEREAS,       1.1 million Rohingya Muslims are currently living in southeast Asia and over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh and around 1,000 may have been killed in Myanmar, meaning that a continuation of the persecution may lead to more deaths and add to the immigration crisis; and

WHEREAS,       the Rohingya rights to practice their own religion, study, travel and marry have been restricted. They cannot get a citizenship as a Rohingya Muslims, which makes it so they cannot enter certain professions such as law or medicine; therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the Congress here assembled sanction Myanmar to reduce violence to the Rohingyas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 4. A Resolution to Enforce the Probable Cause Standard to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline

WHEREAS,       The number of students funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline due to faulty search standards is egregiously high; and

WHEREAS,       Minority students are targeted and incarcerated consistently at a higher rate than white students, in that 61% of studentsincarcerated are black or Latino; and

WHEREAS,       The incarceration of these minority students prevents them from continuing their education; and

WHEREAS,       These minority students are more likely to suffer unemployment and become involved in more serious crime; therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the Congress here assembled implement the probable cause standard in all United States public schools in place of the reasonable suspicion standard in order to decrease the number of students funneled in the school-to-prison pipeline; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED,That the Department of Education will work alongside the Department of Justice to ensure this standard will be implemented in all public schools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 5. A Bill to Increase funding for genetically modified mosquitoes to decrease mosquito-borne illnesses


BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

Section 1.        $25 million shall be allocated towards research and development of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the amount of mosquito-borne illnesses across the globe.

Section 2.        A. “Research and Development” shall be defined as compiling data of the mosquito genome and developing technology that can alter the genome to reduce the number of mosquitoes.

B. “Genetically modified mosquitoes” shall be defined as mosquitoes that are altered with the intent to decrease the overall population of Aedes aegypti and Aedesalbopictus through the creation of non-viable offspring. C. “Mosquito-borne illness” shall be defined as an illness that is transmitted by a mosquito bite, such as dengue, malaria, and zika.

Section 3.        A. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) shall be responsible for aiding in the research, development, and testing of genetically modified mosquitoes. Any research and development done by the NIH will be shared with countries interested in contributing.

B. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) shall oversee the allocation of funds towards the development of genetically modified mosquitoes. 

SECTION 4.        This legislation shall take effect beginning on FY 2020.  

Section 5.        All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

TFA Spring 2018 Item 6. A Resolution to Regulate Google and Facebook as Public Utilities

WHEREAS,       Google and Facebook have become a prime source of news and internet search results for most Americans; and

WHEREAS,       Facebook has engaged in the insertion of fake news and an over- abundance of anti-conservative stories; and

WHEREAS,       Google has manipulated search results in a way that gives illegal advantage to its own services while harming the company’s rivals; and

WHEREAS,       Google and Facebook earned 99% of new digital ad spending last year; and

WHEREAS,       The Google-Facebook advertising duopoly forms an insurmountable barrier to entry of any new digital ad provider; and

WHEREAS,       Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has referred to Facebook as a “social utility”; and

WHEREAS,       Utility regulation does not mean government ownership  but rather righter regulation of what it is able to do and prices it is able to charge; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the UIL Congress here assembled will regulate Google and Facebook as a public utility including regulation under anti-trust laws and pricing practices.

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 7. A Resolution to Increase Aid to Somalia to Promote Stability

WHEREAS,       Al-Shabab continues to launch deadly attacks on innocent Somali civilians, resulting in 4,281 casualties; and

WHEREAS,       Al-Shabab has now become Africa’s deadliest militant group; and

WHEREAS,       If al-Shabab remains unchecked, they can expand their reach throughout the African continent and threaten thousands of lives; and

WHEREAS,       Current measures by the Somali government have proven ineffective in stopping the rise of al-Shabab; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED,       That the Congress here assembled make the following recommendation to increase economic and military aid to the Somali government to $2.5 billion; and,be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the US will place troops on the ground to aid the civilians affected by drought and terrorism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFA Spring 2018 Item 8. A Bill to Provide Humanitarian Assistance to Decrease Hunger Within Uganda

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

Section 1.        This legislation shall provide $600 million in the form of humanitarian aid, over a 5-year period, to advance Uganda’s transportation sector, with the goal of transporting medical and food supplies to villages to decrease hunger.

Section 2.        “Humanitarian aid” shall be defined as material and logistical assistance provided with the sole purpose of decreasing hunger. “Transportation sector” shall be defined as road infrastructure. “Medical supplies” shall be defined as vaccines, mosquito nets, and traps. “Food supplies” shall be defined as non-perishable foods and seeds. “Villages” shall be defined as rural communities that house less than 500 people.

Section 3.        The United States Agency for International Development and the Department of Defense shall oversee the implementation of this bill.

A.      The DOD shall oversee the delivering of food and medical aid.

B.      If aid is being misused by the Ugandan government, then it will be suspended for the following fiscal year.

SECTION 4.        This bill shall go into effect the fiscal year of 2019. 

Section 5.        All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Klein Oak High School

 

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