Reform of the Senate filibuster procedure is needed.Use of the tactic has exploded above 500%, and republicans have doubled down on their promise to make Obama's Presidency a failure even at the peril of our great nation.

I am an Illinois teacher. My pension money has been recklessly mismanaged by Illinois legislators that don't want to repay what they borrowed and instead want to pass the burden back onto school districts and taxpayers. I propose we make them forfeit their pensions to repay Illinois teacher pensions and show accountability for their reckless spending habits and irresponsible mismanagement of money that was not rightfully theirs to spend.

Sandy Hook should never have happened. We need Gun Control Now!

After what happen in connecticut,i feel like that there should be no more guns only for cops and important members of the government.no more selling guns in black friday sales or anywhere.

The Second Amendment has become the new shackle, ball and chain, trapping the American people in a quagmire of mass shootings, preventing us from adopting or even proposing new laws to control 21st century guns. Lets give freedom and power back to the American people! Lets repeal the Second Amendment now!

The Second Amendment

Let’s attack this epidemic of gun violence from the back end using medical professionals to evaluate possible homicidal maniacs. I know the Gun Lobby is too strong; and the Second Amendment to engrained into our culture to defeat. Let’s attack this issue from the back end

I believe if government officials depended on Social Security, like the common citizen, they would have more mercy on those who receive it. As citizens of the United States, they should only receive a pension if they have been an elected official for twenty years (as the common citizen).

Let’s attack this epidemic of gum violence from the back end using medical professionals to evaluate possible homicidal maniacs. I know the Gun Lobby is too strong; and the Second Amendment to engrained into our culture to defeat. Let’s attack this issue from the back end

I am a mother, an attorney, and a concerned citizen. The gun violence that occurs in this country every day is unconscionable. Our leaders have the duty and obligation to stand up and fight for the rights and protection of all citizens by pushing back against the twisted misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment advocated by the NRA.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The “right” of the people to keep and bear arms is deemed necessary in order to protect the security of a free state. However, arms have evolved over the past 200 years so that an individual’s arms could not possibly protect us from the military force of any country. It also specifies that any militia (for which the arms are deemed necessary) should be “well regulated”. It does not say who should regulate it, and as we have seen, there is no well regulated militia. There is no well regulated gun ownership that has been able to protect us. Finally, the purpose of this amendment is the “security of a free state”. How free are we if we can’t go shopping or send our children to school without being threatened by a mass shooting? This amendment restricts, rather than protect our freedom.

the founding fathers had the good sense to add amendments to their less than perfect original-lets do them proud and debate and then fix this "enabler" of unintended consequences.