The spiraling adversarial bipartisanship for personal and political party gains has made Congress increasingly dysfunctional at great cost to our country's economy and social growth. The welfare of the country and its citizens has been thrust into tertiary priority by the self-interests of politicians, large corporations and wealthy special interest groups. Currently, there are insufficient disincentives or penalties for the politicians, who paradoxically have personal incentives to shut down the government, with the cost being born by the citizens. To decrease this largely unchecked corrupted system, this petition seeks to make members of Congress much more accountable to their constituents in a concrete, specific and direct way. A mandatory recall election would create a proportionate and powerful disincentive for each and every member of a Congress that fails to pass a budget leading to a government shut down or default.

I am beginning this petition due to the simple fact that most of Congress has been in office for far too long, leading to the same ideas for the same problems with the same result for most of the time that they are in there, leading to major problems. This petition is to also provide fresher, newer ideas to flow through Congress and provide better, easier, or downright 'common sense' solutions to problems, if it goes into effect. Signing for this petition to put it into effect can show that the power can still come from the people!

Too much misinformation. Too much partisan sniping about the partisan sniping in our country. It's a vicious cycle that is damning our society.

This is a people’s issue, not a Democratic or Republican issue. We the people don’t have to understand all the rules of the House of Representatives to make our wishes known: GET THE GOVERNMENT GOING. There is a mechanism to do this--it’s called a Discharge Petition. If you’re interested in learning about it, look it up in Wikipedia. All it takes is 218 members of the House of Representatives to sign it. This would bypass the abuse of power John Boehner has been using to prevent a vote, and simply let the government pay its bills according to the laws Congress has already passed. This would bypass the Tea Party Tantrum Ted Cruz and his confederates in the House of Representatives have been using to hold the country hostage because they lost the battle in Congress about the Affordable Care Act – several years ago. The Affordable Care Act (sometimes called ACA or Obamacare) is the law of the land–it was passed by both houses of Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court. And when the people of the United States are asked about most of the individual provisions of the ACA, overwhelming majorities of Americans say, “Yes, I support that.” Support getting the government going again–sign this petition!

The American people deserve a congress that will work for them, not against them and will help to resolve the issue with unemployment and underemployment, not send people who ARE employed on un-paid furloughs!!! In light of the recent polls that say that Republicans would lose the election if it happened now, I say we make that a reality for them. Even the threat of a recall might spur a few borderline congressman into reasonable action and get the United States a budget and a spending limit that we deserve, WITH affordable healthcare!

The U.S. will default on its debts if the debt limit, or ceiling, is not increased by Congress before Thursday, Oct. 17. In addition, more and more Americans are being harmed because of the closure of the federal government. Fundamentally, we shouldn’t be using the threat of damage to our economy to move things forward. Congress has important work to do.

It is critically important that we act now, while the breathtaking irresponsibility of shutting down our democracy over disagreements on unrelated issues is on full display, so that this will never happen again. We cannot afford to allow our government to hold our economy hostage and gamble with the livelihood of all Americans to advance ideological agendas.

Our economy is teetering on the edge of a recession worse than than that of 2008. If Congress can't come to a budget agreement by Oct. 17th the middle class will suffer. Rep. Tipton is beholden to special interests and has forgotten who he works for: the people of Colorado. We need Rep. Tipton to wake up and do his job, which means standing up for hard-working Coloradans who have suffered under wildfires and floods, and passing a clean budget with no strings attached.

Our economy is teetering on the edge of a recession worse than than that of 2008. If Congress can't come to a budget agreement by Oct. 17th the middle class will suffer. Rep. Coffman is beholden to special interests and has forgotten who he works for: the people of Colorado. We need Rep. Coffman to wake up and do his job, which means standing up for hard-working Coloradans who have suffered under wildfires and floods, and passing a clean budget with no strings attached.

John Boehner is soley responsibilty for the government shut down and choas in our country this week. He knows there are enough votes in the house to pass a clean CR, but refuses to put the billon the floor for a vote. This should not be allowed and "we the people" must force responsibile behavior from our elected officials, by insisting that they abandon the Hassert Rule and put the bill passed and sent over by the Senate to a full house vote today.

the petition you signed reads: If the government shuts down due to Congress being unable to come to agreements, then furlough their $174,000 (and John Boehner's $223,500) salaries. Here's what John Markosky wrote about it: Congress is willing to furlough their own staffers along with more than 800,000 federal workers, while they suffer no monetary loss at all. If they think it is okay to shut the government down (or not raise the debt ceiling), then they should be the first ones to suffer from it. Click here to start a petition on the same issue to Rep. Stockman, Sen. Cornyn, and Sen. Cruz. Thanks!

The TeaParty has become the most destructive force against our country, affecting so many people struggling in this economy while perpetuating their suffering. They have become the death panels they warned us about.