My petition is about giving government back to the people by preventing big donations from rich individuals and corporations from influencing elections and government laws/policies. Funding: By federal and state governments, very small, equal percentage of gross incomes of all individuals and corporations. Ideally, such a petition would affect the next presidential election.

My husband died on May 24, 2015, since it was a holiday 3 day weekend, we had to wait until the following Tuesday to go to the funeral home to make final arrangements. May 24 was Sunday and my deceased husband was taken to the funeral home. Was Memorial Day weekend, so everything was closed. Waiting until Tuesday, May 26 was horrible enough, only to find out all 3 of his life insurance policies would not payout. 1 is contesting the claim and the other 2 would not pay for 2 weeks. The funeral home will not conduct any of our wishes without payment, so we stripped down the services to the bare minimum, the funeral will have no visitation, service or viewing. Which is very painful for out of towners. We stripped the cost down to $2,100. & paid with 2 credit cards. Although we had $11,000. We could not have the funeral the deceased wished for. This was cruel and unusual punishment to the entire family.

The lack of room in the prison for inmates the lack of staff and the need for law changes to make things safe for both the public and the inmates

Being born on the first president's birthday, the man that started it all, I knew from the beginning I was the one to do something. Being raised on Pennsylvania's own governor leaders farm, going to the very college he funded, having a great grandmother living in the retirement home he established, I am deeply rooted in this country's heart. Coming so close to death when I was 13, I should've been dead, God spoke to me. He said that I know how to change this country, that he kept me alive to do something, to disregard his intentions is ensuring all hell to break loose. Already at church, a pastor came upon me for my actions, telling me to come back so he can give me the rest of my lesson. I prayed to God so hard, a storm rolled in, the only business in the county that electric was knocked out was the one the pastor blasphemed against me in. I would deeply listen to what I have to say, for words on paper do not give credit due. There's a beckoning calling, get back to me for any hope..

On May 26, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. [1] Bernie presented a strong progressive agenda, including creating jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure, confronting the threat of climate change, and breaking the stranglehold of big money on our elections. But a key element of our progressive agenda was missing from Bernie’s announcement speech: cutting the bloated Pentagon budget. Bernie is right to say that when the super-rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, it contributes to our obscene rate of child poverty. But it’s just as important to say that when our federal income tax dollars are diverted to wars, foreign military bases, and weapon systems that we don’t need, that contributes to our obscene rate of child poverty as well. We have a problem with the 1% on the revenue side, but we also have a problem with the 1% on the expenditure side. Raising taxes on the super-rich won’t reduce child poverty if we let the Pentagon gobble all the money. Urge Bernie to talk about cutting the bloated Pentagon budget in his stump speech by signing our petition. References: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHzTdu6Clw

The attack on America’s diplomats in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 was a tragedy. We lost four of our finest public servants, and there are lessons to be learned from the incident. Instead of focusing on improving our diplomatic security, Republicans in Congress have turned the Benghazi investigation into a yearlong, $3 million taxpayer-funded political witch-hunt directed at Hillary Clinton. The U.S. House’s “Select Committee on Benghazi” has failed to produce a single actionable finding after wasting millions of taxpayer dollars. And yet, its chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has already hinted that his “investigation” might not be done until right before the 2016 election! Our country faces enormous challenges, here at home and abroad. We have our work cut out for us. We should be focused on improving security for our diplomats abroad, and we can’t afford to keep wasting time and money on this political sideshow. Sign the Petition: tell Congress it’s time to end the Benghazi madness and get back to work!

I have family members and friends who have combat related post-traumatic stress disorder. I have other friends whose family members died by suicide after experiencing combat.

Douglas Hughes represents us-99-percent. We detest money in politics. We detest government serving the corporate interests. We-99-percent also thank Mr. Hughes for bringing the issue of air space security to light. Lax federal oversight is the problem, not Mr. Hughes. Government works for us. We shall not be enslaved to our government. GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. Years of imprisonment for Mr. Hughes for simply exercising our First Amendment Right, The Right to Free Speech, is WRONG. We respectfully ask that you will free DOUGLAS HUGHES -- the people's hero -- now. Thank you.

It is time to repeal this archaic 1949 law and let the consumer be able to pump their own gas.

I am disabled and live in a rural area where public transportation is not available. Doing business online is often my only option.

I want to see online voter registration passed so that we can have a better turnout of voters. Why not make it as easy as we can for people to vote? The first step is to get them registered. We all work many different hours and can't all get to the registration polls at the few times they are open.

I believe that providing for voting online would increase access to the polls, increase participation by the electorate, and make voting and counting of votes more convenient and organized with little or no risk of fraud because of encryption requirements.