Billions are spent on lifetime, fullpay pensions for politians in Washington, even if they only work two years. They want to reduce our SS, but they should also contribute. We have paid for our SS, they have not. Should they give up their free, fullpay, lifetime pensions?

retirement pay for legislators

Congress wants to balance the budget and in part seems to blame Social Security. Therefore, they should be bound by the same rules of qualification. If deeper cuts are thought to be needed to Social Security, then perhaps Social Security as well as any other public/government retirement benefits should not be afforded to Congress. They need to be part of the sufferage of the mess they put us into.

The public is said to generally favor congressional term limits. A July 2003 Wall Street Journal poll found that two-thirds of Americans believed that giving Congress term limits was a positive idea

Rick Combs, director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, has requested $775,000 to pay dues to such organizations as the National Conferences of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Nevada taxpayer money should not be used to fund "corporate lobbying" by ALEC organizations.

I was shocked to see all the Fiesta Bowl swag shoveled out to our legislators with no declarations made on either side,and the lack of any action by any ethics committee because no rules were broken by the same scoundrels who fail to make any rules. I was shocked Arizona(Kirk Adams,etc.)has become the hub for anonymous political money to be washed and disbursed to other states. There is no good reason to cloak political advocacy in secrecy or the level of monetary and "in kind" support. Democracy has no room for closed doors.

Sen. Marco Rubio has blocked disaster relief money for victims of Hurricane Sandy and I think it's a disgrace!

make the goverment pay back all the social security money it borrowed out of funding for foriegn countries.

make the goverment pay back all the social security money it borrowed out of funding for foriegn countries.

We are triing to get people to commit to making a "list of grievances" that will be handed to representives in DC on the 4th of July

Remember the days when we all knew who in the Senate was filibustering a bill to prevent or at least delay a vote? Senators had to stand in the well and speak until 60 other Senators had heard enough and voted to end the filibuster and vote. We citizens knew who was conducting the filibuster and could contact our own Senators to agree or disagree. Those were the good old days! Last sessions, a Senator needed only to sign a statement of intent to filibuster - a statement kept secret from the public - to prevent a bill, or a proposal, or even a nomination, from coming before the Senate for discussion and vote. We citizens were kept completely in the dark. No wonder we have so many vacant judicial positions, and have almost no information about our Senate. Let's return to the classic filibuster! We the people want and need to know what's going on in the Senate.

While most Americans weren't paying attention, the GOP has quietly been power grabbing by redrawing U.S. Congressional districts to favor Republicans into perpetuity, in a number of consequential states with Republican Governors and Republican led State Legislatures working hand in hand to manipulate and destroy our democracy. In the 2012 election Democrats running in the U.S. House of Representatives won 540,000 more votes than their Republican counter-parts did. Yet due to the crafty gerrymandering of electoral districts in states like Texas and Pennsylvania--we end up with the Republicans not only controlling the House and holding our entire economy hostage with threats of defaulting on the debt. Drunk with power and with the confidence that these manipulated districts will not be challenged--they are constantly holding your economic future and my economic future hostage. My forefathers worked hard to help create democracy in the United States of America. My father and several of my grandfathers fought hard in America's wars for the big idea that we have had that our Congress men and women and Senators are to be elected by a majority of voting Americans. The Republican Party has gone too far now. It is time for ALL OF US to call this out and demand common sense geometrical and geographical standards and make Federal Law for redrawing the most bizarre and oddly shaped U.S. Congressional Districts and never again allow one political party, set themselves up for permanant domination through blatent, convoluted, oddly shaped, gerrymandering.