Xavier Ward

Xavier Christian Ward (born March 21, 2003) is an American Politician who is currently serving as a Class 2 United States Senator from the Midwest.

## Political Career

### Current Position(s)

* United States Senator
* Senate Judiciary Committee Member

### Previous Position(s)

* United States Representative
* Speaker Pro Tempore

Xavier Ward is best known for a scandal regarding his appointment by Governor Begula of the Midwest, in which he asserted he would caucus with the Republican Party. upon obtaining the nomination, but then failing to do so, opting instead to caucus with the Democratic Party.

He has previously served as a Representative for the Midwest.

## Career

### United States Representative

Xavier Ward was elected to serve as a Representative for the Midwest in the 2042 election, obtaining 8 votes. At this time, he was a member of the Democratic Party, and he was elected alongisde 7 other representatives. The first action in his career was to announce two pieces of legislation, both towards scientific research. The first would expand funding and research capabilities into autism, and the second into cancer. The purpose of the Autism Research Act was to help prevent misdiagnosis, with the Cancer Research Act primarily going towards an attempt to find a cure. He attributed his misdiagnosis of autism spectrum disorder as a primary motivator for introducing this legislation.

Over the course of his career in the United States House of Representatives, he introduced further legislation to expand communication networks in the House, expand the National Parks program, crack down and introduce more stringent punishments for rape, and improve sexual education in schools.

Xavier was notable amongst his colleagues for being one of the busiest members of the House at the time, introducing five pieces of legislation within the same term, one of the highest ratios for length of time served and acts introduced. He also actively campaigned against the way in which the Presidential Age Limit Act was introduced, arguing for it to instead be moved as a constitutional amendment.

He served a second term in 2044, again as a Committee Member, and he judged on and approved of multiple pieces of legislation, including Medicare for All, Railroad Regulations, the Tsunami Resilience Act in response to the disaster in the Pacific (State).

He also served on the Committee of Energy and Commerce, and as Speaker Pro Tempore.

### United States Senator

Xavier Ward initially ran for the Senate in 2044, however he failed to win the race against Casper Queen, and instead once again served as a Representative.

However, eventually Xavier Ward was nominated by Governor Begula to fulfil an empty Senate Position within the Midwest. This ultimately became a source of controversy between the National Progressives Party, of which Xavier Ward joined in 1946, and the Republican Party, of which Governor Begula of the Midwest is a member. Xavier Ward, in exchange for his nomination, agreed to caucus with the Republican Party, which would have shifted the majority slightly, although the Democratic Caucus would've narrowly maintained it. In the end, deciding "with conscience" that he could not caucus with the Republican Party, he stuck with the rest of his party and joined the blue conference.

There were multiple calls to resign, and this led to Xavier Ward publicly admitting that he had lied, but stating that he had not intended to do so, but the behaviour of various members of the Republican Party convinced him that he could not caucus with them.