How much could we cut back on our spending if we no longer paid for all congress to keep their salaries and healthcare after they retire. If the middle class can pay health care and expected to save for retirement shouldnt congress and senators? How crazy is this?

Across the board spending cuts have recently been instituted by our Government, I believe it is time we actually go across the board and slash their salaries as well.

The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission needs your help. This Tuesday, March 5, the City Council will consider a proposal by two city council members (Wozniak and Moore) that would dismiss the School Board appointees from the commission, and ban the School Board from making appointments in the future. The School Board appointees, historically more racially diverse and representing a broader spectrum of age and background than Council appointees, bring fresh perspective to the commission. At a time when the city's budget is strained, firing volunteers whose work will need to be picked up by City staff members is a shortsighted and misguided mistake.

The US House and Senate are televised on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 C-SPAN 3 is open and can televise the SCOTUS

Legalize it, and you will eliminate the deficit.

The amount of bureaucratic red tape in government makes it cumbersome and expensive. I have had a hard time getting information and assistance because of it. It costs time,energy and alot of money to maintain it.

Hurricane Sandy exacerbated NYC’s affordable housing shortage. Before the storm, 48,000 people, including 20,000 children, were already sleeping in City shelters and thousands more were made homeless by the storm. Nearly 4 months after the disaster, more than 2,000 displaced families are still living in temporary hotels, SROs, and shelters paid for by FEMA and the City of New York. Thousands more remain in their affected communities, living in dangerous conditions or double-up with family and friends. The majority of these families were struggling to survive on low-incomes even before the storm. New York City established a “housing portal” to help Sandy victims find permanent housing, but three-quarters of applicants did not qualify, because their incomes were too low. After Hurricane Katrina, the federal government established the Disaster Housing Assistance Program, which provided affordable housing vouchers for low-income people made homeless by the storm. They were originally issued as temporary rental vouchers, and later converted to permanent Section 8 rental housing choice vouchers. New York City and other communities that were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy need similar support -- vouchers to get people out of shelters immediately and into permanent housing. These "DHAP" vouchers were authorized by the federal recovery bill (H.R. 152), but HUD and FEMA have yet to issue them. As Secretary of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, we call on Shaun Donovan to immediately issue affordable housing vouchers for Hurricane Sandy victims.

The Sequester

Why should OUR taxes pay for free healthcare for Congress and the Senate when they make many times more a year than the average American. We demand you pay for your own healthcare until ALL Americans have free healthcare.

This petition is just one answer to gridlock in Washington If 8 years is good enough for the President it is good enough for the House and Senate. It will save taxpayers millions of dollars on retirement,hospital insurance.etc we will cover them only while they are in office The time has come where no one need to serve in Washington 20,30 plus years. This will keep all lobbyists from getting a stronghold on people we elect to serve the citizens of America.Also we need a law that says no matter your party if the majority of Americans over 50% want something done then get it done These people in Congress are in their own world and don't really care what the rest of us think or want. Send the whole Congress home now and let's start over .This also cut down on Corporate dollars buying races if they have to buy races every eight years at he costs of $millions of dollars they will soon dry up.

In the last 4 years, I have observed our congress to be the most NON-COHESIVE congress in decades! Change is what we want? Then it's change we will get! Limit Congressional Office terms on Capitol Hill for U.S. Congressmen/Congresswomen and U.S. Senators to TWO indeterminate periods. Allow for the congress to progress like the American People!

126,838,980 votes were cast in the last presidential election. These American citizens are waiting for our congressional representatives to conduct themselves like adults and take care of our business. The government belongs to all of the people not just a select few. Let your voice be heard.