• CIA Torure
    Ask the senate intelligence committee to release its report on torture
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by sul sweis
  • REPEAL SECOND AMENDMENT
    WE ARE ALL AFFECTED BY THE GUN LOBBY'S INSANE PURSUIT OF PROFITS
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by William Schmonsees
  • Tell Harry Reid to Include the Talking Filibuster in Filibuster Reform
    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!
    3 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Michael Heller
  • A New Pledge of Allegiance for America
    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!!
    465 of 500 Signatures
    Created by Liz Velazquez
  • President Obama cut all congressional pay and benefits first.
    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.
    15 of 100 Signatures
    Created by David Poll
  • End The Fight Against DOMA
    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.
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Jason
  • Pay cut to all members of the U.S. House and U.S.Senate
    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!
    872 of 1,000 Signatures
    Created by Kathleen Susich
  • MOMs (Mothers Opposed to Mayhem) Vigil Against Gun Violence
    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.
    137 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Lois Rudnick
  • Include a talking filibuster in any package of Senate rules reforms
    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.
    12,300 of 15,000 Signatures
    Created by Chris Bowers
  • Ending The Deficit In 5 Minutes
    To Clean Up The American Deficit The Right Way !!
    7 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Gerald F. Triggs
  • CONGRESS_CUT YOUR OWN SALARIES
    Congress should cut their salaries before they start cutting on social security.
    12 of 100 Signatures
    Created by sherry breznicki
  • Tell Congress "No Shutdown!"
    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.
    10 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Sheila Wasung