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"Women are an essential part of the workforce." Pay discrimination has affected working women for a long time. Which means that they have less to being home to their families compared to their male counterparts.
Mark Takano is also working with his colleagues to eventually pass the International Violence Act to help end gender-based violence abroad.
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The first qualification outlined in the Constitution states that members of the House must be at least 25 years old. Despite this, the youngest member of the House of Representatives, William Charles Cole Claiborne, was only 22 when elected and only 24 when he was elected for a second time. Currently, the youngest member of the House, Elise Stefanik, is 33 years old, exceeding the requirement by eight years.

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The second qualification, like that of the Senate, deals with citizenship. The constitution states that members of the House of Representatives must have U.S. citizenship for seven years upon election. This allows citizens who were not born in the United States, which is required for the presidency, to be elected into the House, which is crucial to immigrant representation. However, the number of immigrants serving has decreased significantly since the 1960s.

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As of 2015, only 407 past and present members of Congress had been born outside of the United States out of the more than 12,000 who had served. 347 of these members served in the House of Representatives. From 1967 to 1974, no immigrants served in either the House or the Senate.

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The last of the qualifications for the House of Representatives concerns residency and is the same for those serving in the Senate. Those elected to the House must be residents of the state which they represent at the time of election. However, this qualification does not require that representatives live in the district they represent.

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Districts so that they are equal in population. However, these one person, one vote rules do not prevent gerrymanding. Nationally, this decision effectively reduced the representation of rural districts in the U.S. Congress.

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The paycheck fairness act requires employers who pay men more than women prove that the pay disparity is not based on sex, is related to the job, & is necessary for businessmen.
The paycheck fairness act would create training programs for women and girls to learn how to successfully negotiate their salaries and would provide assistance to business to promote equal pay practices.
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Research one current event for Riverside district

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Research one current event for Riverside district

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-Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. It is most commonly used in the context of sexual discrimination, in relation to the gender pay gap.
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These words, the Court held, mean that "as nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's. Wesberry and the Court's later "one person, one vote" decisions had an huge impact on the makeup of the House, on the content of public policy, and on electoral politics in general.

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The size of the House of Representatives currently is at a fixed number, that number being 435 representatives.

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Riverside county is the 41st district.
It includes the cities of Moreno Valley , Perris & Riverside, located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.
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Each state is always guaranteed at the very least one representative in the House no matter the population.
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Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year.

Senators however, serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that only about 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election.

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The current representative for our district of Riverside County is Democrat Mark Takano.
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Wesberry v. Sanders was a Supreme Court case involving U.S. Congressional districts in the state of Georgia. The Court issued its ruling on February 17, 1964. This decision demands each state to write its U.S Congressional.