• Tell President Obama: Don’t buckle!
    Use this form to sign Senator Harkin’s petition to President Obama urging him to stand strong and protect the middle class in the fiscal "cliff" negotiations. If we all stand together, we can strengthen President Obama’s hand without tying his hands.
    5,859 of 6,000 Signatures
    Created by Tom Harkin
  • Fillibuster Reform Now
    a minority of senators have been holding up bills that are favored by a majority of senators. bills should be voted up or down by a simple majority, rather than requiring 60 votes to be acted upon. time is short. phone your senators today.
    6 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Howard Kutchai
  • Curbing the proposed curbs on entitlements
    To prevent Congress from touching Medicare and/or Social Security until members of the House and Senate give up their special entitlements and subject themselves to the same entitlements as the rest of the country.
    259 of 300 Signatures
    Created by Burton J DeFren
  • Congressional Reform Act of 2012
    Our legislaters should follow the same rules they impose on the American people.
    3 of 100 Signatures
    Created by edith berman
  • Pledge to uphold their oath to the people
    Pledges made to Grover Norquist's organization seem to present a conflict for our elected officials. Any office holder that signed a pledge other than their pledge to their oath of office needs to disavow all prior pledges except to their oath of office.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Rebecca Simmons
  • RE-VOTE on the UN Treaty to promote accessibility in over 100 countries for persons with disabili...
    Tuesday, Dec. 5, was a day of disgrace in the Senate. A small number of Republican senators voted to reject ratification of this Treaty, which was based on our own law, written in 1991 and signed into law by the first President Bush. I call for a re-vote, if such a thing is possible. Even the frail former senator and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, who appeared in the Senate Chamber to argue on behalf ot theTreaty's passage, was not able to achieve its passage.
    6 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Loralee Cooley
  • Reform the Filibuster
    Filibusters should be few in number and short in duration.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by pbillp65
  • Cut Entitlements? I Have An Idea!
    An enormous amount of money is being spent to keep our elected officials living in style for life. No matter where I work, I can't get a pension for life for just serving a few years. I can't get top shelf life insurance for life for just serving a few years. And, they want to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Listening to these same elected officials repeat the same mantra about entitlement cuts without any cuts to benefits they have is just sickening. It's just not right.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Christel Holcomb
  • Law Maker's Time to Own Up
    I am tired of hearing about the monetary and other benefits that are allotted to our law maker's and policy maker's - all of congress, governors, legislator's - every politician while the rest of us go without. I have no pension, I have no health insuraNCE. I have worked since I was 11 years old, starting out babysitting - and sometimes working three jobs to survive. These people got us into this economic mess - its time they sacrificed something. Just like every other American who has worked an honest job and then retires with barely a scrap of what they paid into Social Security - they should be getting the same.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Stephanie Kelley
  • Fair interest on savings accounts
    This may concern seniors the most but it should concern everyone. Banks make 6-8% on loans; we get .01% on our savings. The government encourages us to save to supplement Social Security but an average $8 a month isn't enough to buy dog food. I am most definitely personally affected by this absurd rate. I was a well paid executive before I retired. My pension "disappeared" and all I have left is some savings, These rates have forced me to live below the poverty level.
    5 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Mae B. Haynes
  • Congress should give up their pay
    Congress aproval rating is 9 and thats not based on a 10, that's 9% out of 100%. The average yearly pay in Congress is $174,000. The Median wealth of all members in Congress is $911,510. The average salary in the US is $47,000 and they will tax us more. You see the reason they won't raise taxes on the wealthy (just pay what we pay) Is because they will be affected. Essentially if they did not receive pay or lobbyist monies they in turn will less likely to tthink of themselves. A seat in Congress should not be your only job. Especially for someone who goes to work half the time and doesn't produce anything.
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Brian Tibolla
  • Congresional Seats, limited Term
    We are all affected by so called career Cogres people
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Louis T Piccoli