We have written this petition for a MOMs vigil in memory of the children who perished in Sandy Hook Elementary School and in support of all the mothers who have lost children at the hands of weapons of mass destruction.

Between now and January 22, Senate leaders will meet to discuss whether senators will continue to be allowed to silently stall any nomination or legislation, or whether the public accountability of a real, talking filibuster will be required from now on. During these meetings, the grassroots need a way to send a message about our frustration with unaccountable obstructionism directly to Senate leaders. At Daily Kos, by teaming up with the champions of the filibuster reform movement inside the Senate—Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—we have a way you can do exactly that. Tell Senate leaders to include a real, talking filibuster in any package of Senate rules reforms. Sens. Merkley, Udall and Warren will deliver your message.

To Clean Up The American Deficit The Right Way !!

Congress should cut their salaries before they start cutting on social security.

Republicans are using the same threats that they used in 2011 to hold the debt ceiling hostage in order to get their way. We need to keep our government open and running. Help me stop this.

This has to be done or our country will never be the same again. Congress has done nothing in the last 12 years but drag down this country instead of doing the job that we the people have voted them to do. As citizens of this country we should feel proud of our country, but from what i see that has changed so we need to change the individuals that are causing all the havoc.

People should be concerned about this issue, because Congress is the recipient of government largesse in a way that no citizen is. Perhaps Congress would be less glib about the changes they make that affect the elderly and disabled if they received the same insurance from the government.

We need a bill to prevent state legislators from becoming lobbyists immediately after leaving office. It happens too often: our elected officials learn how the system works and make contacts, then leave office as our representatives to become lobbyists with bigger pay-checks and no accountability. If they represent us in the past, they have no need to become lobbyists in the future. Protect democracy, support state Rep. John Kowalko's "revolving door" bill to end this practice. Thank you.

Delaware must not become like the D.C. Beltway, where lobbyists often negate the mandates of elected representatives given to them by the people. State legislators must not be allowed to become lobbyists immediately after leaving office.

It is well known that in order to distract the people from the more serious issues, a less serious event is sensationalized. One can never forget the Monica Lewinsky scandal (1998) and how that whole debacle overshadowed the fact that more discussions should have been taking place about the bi-partisan effort involved with signing the devastating Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB) (1999).

Expectations of our lawmakers have been absent. They work for the People of the United States of America and no one else.

As Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) writes on The Hill's Congress Blog "Here is a stubbornly well-kept secret: the debt ceiling is arbitrary, doesn't affect the deficit, and serves no real function in keeping spending down. In addition, it has recently become a cudgel which extremist Republican legislators use to beat the rest of us into submitting to political blackmail." It is time to end this farce which has already resulted in the U.S. rating being downgraded unnecessarily in the previous negotiations. We need to deal with the real issue--job creation.