As a mom I'm prepared to do everything in my power to keep kids safe from gun violence. As a medical professional, I will do everything in my power to prevent more deaths due to senseless gun violence.

Every birth, every adoption, and every serious illness presents the average American worker with an agonizing choice between financial security and their families’ health. The FAMILY Act would create a national family and medical leave insurance program to provide workers with a portion of their wages for up to 12 weeks in a year to recover from a serious health condition; to care for ailing parents, spouses, domestic partners, and children; to care for a new child; or for specific military caregiving and leave purposes. Successful paid leave programs in New Jersey, California, and around the world have shown the benefits of paid leave. It improves newborn and maternal health. It helps patients avoid complications and hospital readmissions. It keeps workers in the workforce and financially stable. And businesses benefit from decreased turnover and increased employee engagement. The FAMILY Act would be funded through employee and employer contributions. The benefits would amount to 66 percent of a worker’s wages (with a maximum of $4000 per month in the first year), and the cost for a typical worker would be about $1.50 per week. American workers deserve better. It’s time for Congress to improve the lives of every working family. Pass the FAMILY Act today.

I believe in America's potential to be a great country. Congress has become the blockade to our greatness and American progress. A law such as this would greatly ensure and at the same time, give notice to Congress that their job is not a career but one of service to their boss, the American people.

This petition is to make aware and disassemble the entanglement of the unethical and immoral relationship between Monsanto and our United States government. We the people stand in solidarity to remove capitalist member's of our government who are involved in the largest corporate conspiracy in our nation's history. We the people choose to not be led by a government who's agenda does not protect it's people as is our right. We stand to hold accountable member's of both parties who have neglected their responsibilities as representatives to the people. The sickness and death's this corporation's agenda is causing and this government is allowing, will not stand. Our declaration of independence states we have the right when a government becomes destructive, to alter it as this country belongs to us!

Because I'm sick and tired of these blatantly treasonous politicians serving their own interests by working for the Military Industrial complex, at the expense of American and human interests.

I AM ONE PERSON WHO CARES ABOUT THIS COUNTRY

Benjamin Franklin insisted that a free society needed a free postal service that allowed the ease of exchange of ideas and information. Hobbling it with an over burden of unreasonable debt is the antithesis to that goal.

Congress is expected to leave for the holiday in mid-December. But before they do, they’re expected to vote on a plan to fund the government and stop another GOP shutdown of our country from happening as well as an extension of unemployment insurance. But, no surprise, Rep. Paul Ryan and other Republicans are using working people as punching bags to get their way. Instead of focusing on investing in jobs and infrastructure programs to get people back to work and ending tax loopholes for the wealthy corporations that ship jobs overseas, Republicans are demanding that Democrats agree to a $20 billion cut to federal workers’ retirement over ten years. On top of that, they may not allow an extension of unemployment insurance to happen before the end of the year, leaving millions of unemployed Americans out in the cold. This is not the first time federal employees and unemployed workers have been put on the chopping block. Over the last two years, federal employees have sacrificed more than $30,000 each, $113 billion total for all workers, for deficit reduction--and that doesn’t even include lost wages from furloughs. Republicans were able to get cuts to unemployment insurance for workers in the sequester and have let extensions for unemployment insurance lapse to get cuts for other vital programs. Unfortunately, some Democrats are showing signs that they might go along with these terrible ideas. We can’t let that happen. Sign the petition to Congress to oppose attacks on the retirement security of federal workers and to fight for an extension of insurance for unemployed workers.

The PAEA has caused post office and plant closures and reductions in service and employment. This stopped the longstanding practice of the USPS hiring large numbers of veterans to career jobs. Stop the slowing down of the mail to the American people and the closure of post offices and processing facilities nationwide.

My son has a little 9 month old baby at home with his wife. He gets by on his salary. He counts on his employer to pay in for part of his pension for when he retires. With some cities and states looking to use these pension funds to help run their municipalities, workers like my son will have a very difficult time when they retire. Please do not use pensions as a source of municipal income. Big corporations can handle an extra fee much more easily than the individual working man.

This petition hopes to solve the problem of gridlock in the House of Representatives today. I am a long-time political activist, and I've fought, for forty years, to elect a president from the progressive wing of the Democratic party. In 2008 I finally achieved that goal. And yet, when progressives lost the House in 2010, that was the start of three long years of gridlock and inaction. My hopes were dashed, those of my fellow progressive Democrats were dashed, the hopes of immigration reformers were dashed, the hopes of gun violence reformers were dashed, etc. etc. The shutdown just concluded definitively demonstrated that Tea Party Republicans are at the root of the problem. A Speaker needs to be elected by a majority of the House who will lead us away from Tea Party-style governing by crisis. It is time to form consensus. It is time to achieve.

The U.S. Supreme Court is gutting federal and state campaign finance laws and paving the way for a complete corporate takeover of our democracy. We need to fight back, and the first step is for CT to join other states in demanding a Constitutional Amendment protecting our ability at both the federal and state level to set limits on campaign contributions and spending by outside groups.