District manipulating for political advantage has been around a long time. but it should not be in the future. I for one am tired of the steady march to right wing extremism.

The Government is concerned about the economy and the middle class yet they give themselves raises all the time. Stop It Now!!!

This impacts every American who have paid taxes who's money has gone overseas to make war with nations who have large oil reserves.

All politicians should take aptitude test to get into office,just like everyone else when it comes to getting a job. The most important jobs in the country should not be for sell, but the person trying to get the job should show that they are able.

An appeal to those Republican politicians that are on the fence. Join the Democratic party and help us get our country back on the right track

Ask the senate intelligence committee to release its report on torture

WE ARE ALL AFFECTED BY THE GUN LOBBY'S INSANE PURSUIT OF PROFITS

This petition will let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid know that a majority of Americans support the notion that if a Senator opposes a bill or a nomination, that they must stand on the Senate floor and voice their opposition. I have been personally affected by this issue because several bills introduced on the Senate floor (as well as several bills that could not be introduced due to the filibuster) have been blocked by Republican Senators via the filibuster without voicing their opposition to the bill on the Senate floor and engaging in the public debate that the Senate was supposed to facilitate. Such bills include: 1) Employee Free Choice Act; 2) Public Option in healthcare reform; 3) Paycheck Fairness Act; 4) Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act; 5) American Jobs Act (and the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011); 6) Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act; 7) DISCLOSE Act; 8) DREAM Act. This does not even include the numerous amount of judicial and federal appointments!

This pledge written by Jason Shulman, Founder, A Society of Souls, and published in the Huff Post on 1/14/2013 deals with the fundamental need for our political representatives to embrace a new humanistic and heartfelt vision, founded on compromise, in order to heal our nation. United we stand, divided we fall!!

Several members of congress have stated that they would rather shutdown the government than extend the debt ceiling,with out matching or more spending cuts.

House Republicans continue to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a way to get President Obama to agree to the Republicans spending cut ideals. However House Republicans are prepared for an additional $3 million taxpayer dollars to be spent on the legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act of which the president has already declared as unconstitutional and the supreme court will discuss later this year. If the Republican party is as serious about spending cuts as they say they are then this is one of the cuts that should come first. Stop the Republican hypocrisy.

Let's give a 10% pay cut to all members of Congress effective immediately. Stop pension for life to lawmakers who serve just 1/2/3 terms set up a scale according to time served. We the American people cannot take any more cuts. It is time they give a little too!