So many of Trump's proposed appointees are unqualified (someone from the Sierra Club has noted the appointing Scott Pruitt to the EPA is like appointing an arsonist to head the fire department) and/or present a danger to the country and its future or both. It is essential that all the facts about their background and all of their positions on relevant issues be investigated, and made public, before they come to positions of power. Senators need to understand their constituents' concerns and act in response to them. http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/senate-confirmation-hearings-background-checks.html?smprod

As I type this, Congress is trying desperately to repeal the bill commonly referred to as Obamacare. This bill has given untold numbers of people, who had no healthcare before, coverage and saved countless numbers of lives in the process. And while they claim to be working on a replacement, we have heard the timetable of between a few weeks to "somewhere down the road". This is completely unacceptable! That is why, as a show of solidarity and good faith with the American people, the members of Congress that vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should also suspend their own healthcare until such time that a suitable replacement has been conceived, ratified, and put into effect. If they truly have something good in the works and are not simply gas-lighting the American people, drunk off of their own power, or simply looking to dismantle the legacy of President Barack Obama, then this small action should be nothing but a minor inconvenience to them. Congress, do what you know to be right and suspend your own healthcare coverage until such time as a replacement for Obamacare has been completed.

Because I believe we need to protect the American electoral process.

In light of U.S. intelligence findings, outside influences successfully inhibited our political process and diverted its outcome. Our Founding Fathers did not think of everything. In order to achieve feats never before achieved we must employ methods never before used!!

Please add other names as you find them. Let's hit them where it hurts and let them know we won't tolerate the support of a tyrant.

Donald Trump has scheduled his first "press conference" since July next week, on the day that Republicans are planning to railroad through SIX of his most controversial cabinet picks. Ask the major news media outlets to focus the majority of their resources and coverage on the confirmation hearings and not on the sideshow that Trump's bait and switch "news conference" is sure to be.

This affects not only me directly but millions of people around the United States in hospitals or not, injured or not.

ExxonMobil committed what may be the largest corporate crime in history: covering up research showing that Big Oil is responsible for climate change. Now Donald Trump has nominated Exxon's CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State. Putting Big Oil in charge of our foreign policy could do enormous damage to people and the planet, and Senators should reject his nomination.

House Republicans voted on Monday to limit the power of the Office of Congressional Ethics. The measure will be voted on in the House today.

We need to bring back honesty and integrity to the highest office of the US.

It is CLEAR that our President Elect is a traitor to our country and MUST BE STOPPED NOW!

We are horrified and dismayed by the fact that a foreign power was able to interfere and influence the result of our presidential election. We cannot simply "move on" from this outrageous state of affairs as it is ILLEGAL AND UNJUSTIFIABLE!