The Florida Department of Health Office of Medical Marijuana Use rules to become a medical marijuana license holder in the State of Florida are discriminatory and have created a monopoly with the citrus growers. Thanks to 71% of the voters last year, we now have Medical Marijuana in Florida, but not under reasonable terms that everyone knows about. Currently, there are 17 "lucky" license holders and below is the reason why this system is so very wrong. There's all this talk about Medical Marijuana in the newspapers and on TV, but if you speak to your average person on the street they have no clue how this is playing out! I, like many other talented and Marijuana University certified individuals in the art of growing, dispensing, and extracting cannabis, have been denied access to a license in my own state due to a small group of people holding all the cards which is why I deem it discriminatory and illegal. Florida has decided that only citrus growers of "more than 400,00 plants" which "have been operated as a registered nursery in this state for at least 30 continuous years" are eligible to apply for a license to grow, extract and distribute medical marijuana. So, tell me, what do oranges have to do with marijuana? Remember folks, the licenses include not only the cultivation of plants but also the dispensing and extraction of low THC cannabis. Now I, along with many others, have experience in this field while these fine orange growers may or may not. I feel the statute is discriminatory and takes away my right to open a cannabis business in my home state by not allowing me to apply for a license. I have the talent; I have the knowledge; and if the voters were aware of this monopoly, I am sure I'd have supporters! I am calling for the Florida Legislature to enact the state's constitutional amendment by re-opening and expanding the application process for myself and other similarly knowledgeable persons to be able to apply for a license in the state of Florida.

Senator King just voted for David Bernhardt to be Number 2 at the Department of the Interior. Now, his nomination has passed the committee and will go to the full Senate. That means he's one step closer to playing a key role in deciding the fate of our National Monuments and public lands. Tell Senator King you'll hold him accountable for handing over our National Monuments to Big Oil!

Trump announced that he's pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. This attack on our environment is so extreme that Trump's corporate advisors are speaking out against it. Already, the CEOs of Tesla and Disney have decided to leave Trump's council in protest. General Motors also opposes Trump's decision to leave Paris. And its CEO, Mary Barra, serves on an advisory council to Trump. So we need your help to convince her to stop normalizing Trump! Tell General Motors CEO Mary Barra: Leave Trump's advisory council!

Senator Manchin just voted for David Bernhardt to be Number 2 at the Department of the Interior. Now, his nomination has passed the committee and will go to the full Senate. That means he's one step closer to playing a key role in deciding the fate of our National Monuments and public lands. Tell Senator Manchin you'll hold him accountable for handing over our National Monuments to Big Oil!

We now have a paper trail of Donald Trump’s son soliciting a contribution -- in this case, opposition research to influence the presidential election -- from a Russian national with ties to Putin's government. Common Cause filed an official complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice against Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign, following reports that Trump Jr. met with a Putin-connected Russian lawyer to obtain "official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary." NOW...we already have confirmation of wrongdoing: Trump Jr. himself tweeted out emails that prove he illegally solicited a contribution from a foreign national, just as our official complaints alleged. Those emails explicitly discuss "Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump." This is what we've been working towards for months. The American people deserve the full story of the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Russian government in its attempts to interfere with the 2016 election. Federal law defines a contribution as "anything of value ... for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office" -- which makes Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt to obtain damaging information on his father's election opponent a clear-cut violation of the law. There’s no telling how deep this goes. One thing is certain: our complaint (Common Cause v. Donald Trump Jr.) and the investigation it calls for could finally expose the truth about Trump and Russia that the American people are demanding. Now that we know Trump Jr. broke the law -- and a full investigation of his crime could reveal the extent of Trump and his team's involvement with Russia's attack on our democracy. Add your name today to demand a full investigation.

In 1967 I was elected to the House of Representatives, to serve there with honorable people like George H.W. Bush, Gerry Ford and Bob Dole. My family had been Republicans since the time of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. I left the Party in 2007 when my former colleagues, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld persuaded George W. Bush to claim the right to torture as a Presidential prerogative. His father would never have done that. In June, 1973, I had made the first floor speech to suggest the impeachment of Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice. A year later, the House Judiciary Committee, with four Republicans, including later Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, voting Aye, impeached Nixon on the charge of obstruction of justice. Now I'm urging Republicans to do some soul-searching about what should be a fairly simple decision...to support, rather than continue to block committee investigations, not just into President Trump's actions, but into the now-admitted fact that his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and son, Donald Jr. attended a meeting with a known Russian agent, to solicit information (clearly an item of value in a tough campaign) from an enemy government seeking to influence our political process. This is clearly a violation of our election laws. More importantly, it justifies inquiry, as the Senate has agreed, by not just their Intelligence Committee, but by the House Judiciary Committee, which will also have jurisdiction over impeachment proceedings if the facts ultimately show obstruction of justice by President Trump. I therefore ask if you will join me in this petition to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte, asking him to initiate an immediate investigation of the violation of our election laws by people of either party in assisting the Russian invasion of our electoral process, with all hearings to be public Respectfully, Pete McCloskey, Republican Member of Congress, 1967-83

Trump will do anything as long as it's legal, he has no moral compass and has shown a willingness to abuse his authority

The idea that our schools will lose critical funding because of one man's oversized ego, who wasn't even elected by a majority of Rhode Islanders, is really too much for me to take! It should also be too much for any other rational and caring person to take! Our children deserve better than to be used as pawns in Speaker Mattiello's dangerous and irresponsible decision to prevent passage of the state budget.

The demise of the Election Assistance Commission has gone under-reported on news networks (save MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show), yet its functioning is imperative for honest, reliable elections all over the US. Please sign to show that the American public will not accept this obliteration of truth.

President Trump's consistent invention of facts, late-night erratic tweets, raffish demeanor and bizarre outburst are not just unseemly, but unhealthy on many levels and ultimately dangerous to the American people as a community and in the eyes of the world. Donald Trump is not fit to be president of any country, nevertheless the greatest country in the modern world.

Donald Trump created the "Commission on Election Integrity" to legitimize his lies about voter fraud, and to advance Republican efforts to suppress the votes of people of color, young people and others. Trump named Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the leader in the national vote suppression effort, to serve as vice chair, alongside Vice President Mike Pence. Now Kobach has asked states to submit personal information on every voter to his commission. There’s every reason to suspect that Kobach aims to nationalize his “Crosscheck” program, which has been used in several states to disqualify large numbers of eligible voters on pretextual grounds. Hacking of the data also poses a massive privacy risk and, according to Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, a national security risk, as well. While some states have already stood up to Trump’s sham commission, many have agreed to partially comply. We need each and every state to reject this unprecedented request entirely.

Joe has allowed critical vehicular traffic lanes to be converted to mostly unused bike lanes in San Pedro, creating excessive gridlock where once there was a smooth flow of traffic. Numerous complaints from impacted citizens consistently fall on deaf ears. He does not listen to complaints and has insulated himself from virtually any contact with his constituency. Inappropriate, unwanted bike lanes recently inflicted on Playa Del Rey are being dismantled after public outcry. We deserve better, an elected representative who will serve the constituency instead of his own ends.