Mark Kennedy
Mark Kennedy
Mark Raymond Kennedy, is an American businessman, Republican Party politician, and president of the University of North Dakota. Kennedy previously led the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. Before that, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007. Kennedy did not seek re-election in 2006, instead running for the U.S. Senate. He lost the general election to Democratic–Farmer–Labor nominee Amy Klobuchar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 April 1957
CountryUnited States of America
There are many ways to protect our kids from what they might come across online. The most important is to talk to your kids about it.
As I help my children get ready for a new school year, I often think about how education has played such an important role in my family.
The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
Since our dark day of terror almost four years ago, we as Americans have become much more aware of our surroundings, and the nature of our enemy.
Because of the courage and skill of America's fighting men and women, we live in a nation that enjoys unprecedented peace and prosperity.
The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.
Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.
Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.