I petition our congress to receive the same insurance, the same retirement plan, and a pay decrease of at least 20%.

Congress paying their fair share and putting in Honest ,productable wor days.

I feel that one can serve only master at a time. No matter what coiuntry in which a person holds citizenship, partial allegiance is not possible and should not be allowed either in Congress or in any other branch of government I would also include the State Department as well as the military services. If one wants to serve they should be willing to give up citizenship in another country A number of countries do not permit service by dual citizenship holders. The U.S. should be one of them.

Citizens United. We are all affected by this wrongful Supreme Court ruling. Oregonians should ask that it be repealed in their state. It is ruining democracy in our state and our country.

We need direct democracy at the federal level to counteract the influence of corporate lobbies on Congress. Apartheid was ended in South Africa only through a national referendum. We need a constitutional amendment establishing a national referendum as a direct expression of the will of the people.

Child poverty has dire consequences. Nearly all social problems in United States are heavily correlated with child poverty. Children who grow up in poverty are less healthy, trail in emotional and intellectual development, are more likely to drop out of high school and are less likely to find steady work as adults*. Poor children also are likely to become the poor parents of the future. *A high school dropout costs taxpayers as much as $288,000, according to the research organization The Policy Group for Florida’s Families and Children. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, in the United States, a child is born into poverty every 32 seconds and 21 percent of children in the U.S. live in households with income below the federal poverty level. It is outrageous that the richest country in the world tolerates children living in poverty in America today. This movement believes that ending child poverty in the United States must be the highest priority of government. The economic future of our country and the stability of the communities we live in depend on achieving this goal. The objective of citizen-led, non-partisan, non-profit Movement To Petition The End of Our Children’s Lives of Poverty is to inform our political, business and civic leaders, and the parents and people of this city, about this issue, build support for measures that will end child poverty and give children the best chance to be successful. We call upon the President and Congress to make ending child poverty their highest priority so that children do not live in poverty in America. I will only vote for those who do so.

By citizens' initiative Arizona should establish an Oregon-type vote-by-mail system.

Close the Prison in Guantanamo. It is contrary to the legal values of our country and puts American Prisoners of War at risk.

The ecomony is recovering slowly. There are a lot of people suffering from unemployment, from no medical care. Republicans held a meeting the week Obama was elected in whch members vowed not to work with President Obama " make Obama a one term President" The decisions made in that meeting by Republicans have hurt the millions of unemployed middle class and poor people in this country. We need to know who attended that meeting and what was said. Republicans have been able to get away "just saying no" and blaming the slow ecomonic recovery on Obama because the main press has refused to hold them accountable for their actions.

I am tired of out of touch and completely corrupted politicians running this country. They run for office using the same tactics the advertising companies use to fool you into buying a worthless product. Then we are surprised that the elected official is worthless. After so many years in office, the "not for the people' influences have taken over any shred of decency they may have had.

I am angry to see that The least among us are being hurt the most by the sequester cuts. while my 80 year old mother gets her meals on wheels cut all Congress can do is waste money on needless debates, investigations, disrespecting the President, and take vacations from doing nothing. When you call them all you get is a machine. . The sequester cuts should stop. I work hard everyday and sometimes I get a vacation. Why does Congress paid so much while getting so much time off from doing nothing?

It is time any and all representatives voted into office stop voting themselves raises and added benefits. No pay raises should be allowed unless put up for a vote by those who elected these people. It is time politicitians who love to talk so much about accountability show they are also responsible and willing do as they say.