Rachel S. Harper (Senator)

**Rachel Harper** (also known as **Steven J. Harper**), born April 17th, 1964 was a American politician, who served as the former and only governor of Grande Texas for the Republican Party, a former representative for the 5th congressional district. Later she was elected to the senate in the 3rd district. Currently she is the 2nd longest serving senator in American history only being behind current senator and President Pro-Tempore Harry Bennett. Before leaving office she resigned at the very end of her term due to the death of her mother.

## **Life before Congress**

From the city of Dallas she spent the the majority of her early life in school and extracurricular activities. She was known for being a hard worker as a child something that would carry over into her senate career. At the age of 19 she attended the University of Texas School of Law, in Austin and graduated 6 years later with a Master's degree. After returning to her home in Dallas she spent the next next 37 working for the Dallas-based law-firm "New Directions" in the field of criminal justice law successfully defending dozens of clients in her law career. Much of her original net worth of 5 million USD of course came from her massively successful Dallas based law-firm. Rachel also dabbled in politics some time around 1997 when she announced her candidacy for the 1998 Dallas mayoral election as an independent. She received a total of 19.88% of the vote or just under 8,000 votes, this caused a skyrocket in the young lawyer's fame which allowed for her to run as a senator in November 2020 for the 3rd Senate District.

## **Gubernatorial Career**

Elected in October of 2020 in a landslide victory for the newly created state of Grande Texas Miss. Harper immediately began work on the state constitution, however just under 2 weeks later her position was terminated due to the lack of citizens willing to run for the understaffed senate and House of Representatives.

## **Career in the House of Representatives**

However with the end of Rachel's gubernatorial career, she was not out of public office for long as only several days later she was appointed to the House of Representatives by Everett Terry. Her career was rather lackluster only serving one term, but providing a crucial defence for the then President Edwin J. House with Senator Sean Washington, being one of the only in congress to defend the unpopular president following his attack on Hamas. Upon impeachment and pressure from fellow Representatives she voted to abstain from the impeachment vote. After her term began to come to a close she later announced she would no longer be seeking reelection the House of Representatives, and later the same day announced in a pre-recorded video that she would seek election to the United States senate.

## **Senate Career**

Rachel Harper was elected to the 3rd senate district on November 12th, of 2020 in a landslide election gaining 70% of the vote against Democrat Benjamin Venus, Miss Harper was sworn in on the 26th of November, 14 days later by the then Vice-President Joey King on his very last day as Vice-President following the resignation of incumbent President Edwin J. House. During her time in the senate she served on every single committee, and by the time she resigned she chaired and served on more committees than any other senator, and writing 4 bills which all easily passed in both chambers.

### Land Reclamation Act

One of Senator Harper's greatest achievements was the land reclamation act, which had been passed in the waning hours of 2020, in late December. The bill she brought to congress was almost entirely written by her, and was formatted by the then Representative Everett Terry. The bill's contents included the increase of infrastructure around rural America, but most importantly once it was passed it created several thousand jobs across the United States, and saved the drinking water of 3 small communities.

### Attack on USS Theodore Roosevelt

Following the attack on the United States Navy aircraft carrier and incredibly high tensions, Senator Harper seconded a motion to hold an emergency session the same day, where in said session she spoke against the evils of China, and denounced nearly all of their expansionist actions which included their failed invasion of Taiwan, and Tibet. Later in her speech on the floor, she promised to have a bill which would expand naval production in the United States Navy, and the complete modernization of the United States Navy, which later created tens of thousands of dockyard, and navy jobs further lowering unemployment across the United States.

### Puerto Rico Relief Act

Just preceding the fall of Hurricane Perry, senator Harper quickly wrote and formatted this bill which not only modernized the territory's critical hospital infrastructure, but also allocated a set amount of funds to the business owners and families of the region. Furtherly regarded as one of her best acts of legislation, the bill would likely have saved hundreds of lives following Hurricane Perry had a similar relief fund not already gone to congress just 5 minutes before she proposed this legislation.

### Southern United States Relief Act

Immediately following the failure of her original relief bill, Senator Harper began drafting a bill which would increase 10-fold, and bring aid to the southern United States along the Gulf Coast or Atlantic Coast. The bill proposed would have 2 clauses which would denote which part of the southern United States would receive relief funding, depending on what direction Hurricane Perry would go. With Perry heading towards the Gulf of Mexico, the bill would immediately go into effect, and many of the businesses in the southern United States which would have to close normally, would soon start receiving a set amount of government money every week depending on how large the business was.

Another section in this legislation included the creation of clinics, and hospitals across the southern United States, and 10 major hospitals would be built under this legislation, which would completely modernize the healthcare system of impoverished states such as Alabama or Mississippi. Creating upwards of 30,000 jobs both temporary and permanent, this would bring much needed work to the unemployed of the region. Many of the hospitals or clinics created under this bill would be sold to private companies, following their completion, which created a necessary economic boom to the region's medical sector.

### Kinder Surprise Egg Fiasco

Her last bill she wrote was one which legalized Kinder Surprise Eggs, after her many grandchildren pleaded with her to legalized the beloved treat. However in her presidential campaign this action stuck, and was cause of much criticism.