Congress has 5 days scheduled before the Sep. 30 budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Randy Hultgren to prioritize expanding the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly, he may join with Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan and support more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

Congress has 5 days scheduled before the Sep. 30 budget deadline to avoid a government shutdown. But some Republicans won't even negotiate unless Obamacare is defunded — and they're using the deadline to gain leverage. We need Rep. Peter Roskam to prioritize expanding the middle class during the budget debate. Unless we act quickly, he may join with Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan and support more cuts to education, healthcare, and other vital services.

Stop the slow down of the mail to the American people and the closure of post offices and processing facilities nationwide. Restore hours of operation to rural post offices, stations and branches. Allow the USPS to return to hiring veterans with and without disabilities. Maintain six day curb side/ house to house delivery.

Important legislation is often added onto bills as a "rider" or amendment and therefore it becomes invisible to public scrutiny or committee review. In order to create transparency in government and to prevent "pork barrel politics" each piece of legislation must be introduced as a single subject and assigned a unique number that can be tracked by anyone who is interested.

Everyone I know regardless of political affiliation is fed up with Washington. No one feels that they are represented. Without reform, we keep electing more of the same and the cycle continues.

with only 9 days of work scheduled in September, 4 of which have already been used, what do the House Republicans decide to focus on? the looming government shutdown? debt ceiling? farm bill, immigration reform, a fix to the Voting Rights Act? jobs? nope. they spent their time yesterday voting on the number one priority on their list: GOP lawmakers voted for the 41st time to gut the Affordable Care Act. this has gone beyond amusing, this has become madness, a vendetta against the President of this country that has consumed them to the point where they don't care if the country goes down in flames. they will fiddle while it does. this needs to stop.

Ending gridlock and returning our Government to work.

To prevent unfair electric power rates caused by California Assembly Bill 327. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Fstate&id=9243600

i am concerned that what seems like a simple surgical strike in Syria could have huge consequences, especially if Russia escalates or raises the stakes.

Due to the American Public's overwhelming opposition to another military strike in The Middle East.

Concerned with the negative effect affordable housing will have on the community as a whole, and the environment it will disturb. Everything from our taxes, real estate, schools, population, safety, and the disturbance of endangered species being affected with the construction of this low income affordable housing. The real estate market is still very soft, and with the addition of this tax exempt housing, the residents will be hit even harder with poor sales prices, and increased property taxes. Also, hearing that this project may be using 5 million of STORM SANDY's rebuilding funds. Schools in this township are already overcrowded, with the addition of more children, the education and budget will be lessened even more. Endangered species and wildlife will be uprooted, and killed with this construction.

New York City’s strong campaign finance system is under threat from a flood of corporate cash, through so-called "independent expenditures" (like the "Super PAC" spending that became legal following the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision). In City Council races, corporate spending can easily overwhelm all other spending by candidates, and become the majority of information available to most voters. One PAC funded by real estate developers plans to spend $10 million in City Council races this year, under the semi-anonymous name "Jobs for New York." The City Council can pass legislation to make every ad carry a warning label so that voters know it is not subject to the campaign finance rules that protect our democracy. In New York City, we also need to close the loophole that corporations use to avoid contribution limits and require them to identify themselves on their ads. Join us in the fight to close corporate loopholes and require transparency to rein in independent expenditures.