The US Senate is steeped in tradition. One of these traditions is keeping old rules and regulations that hinder the country as a hold. The worst of these rules is the US Senate Filibuster. In the Republic of the United States, we vote for Majority Rule, not SUPER MAJORITY. If the founders wanted SUPER MAJORITIES, it would have been included in the constitution. The over use of the US Senate Filibuster, by both parties is gridlocking the country and holds everyone hostage to a rouge group or to one single Senator and the end result is nothing gets done.

Our country is being torn apart by partisan politics. We need to work together, capitalizing on the different parties' respective strengths and respecting our differences, to create a united plan for our country's future. We are not the "Divided States of America!"

The GOP has blocked a number of legislative initiatives by merely threatening filibuster. That has been enough to get the Democrats to back away from their own proposals, and has led to gridlock in Congress. Why should the threat of filibuster be enough? The fallout from televised coverage and news coverage will be so negative, it will lead to them backing down. Make the GOP actually do it, Jimmy Stewart style. They will have to put up or shut up.

It's time to put an end to campaign lying. Let's get together on this now, so the next round of campaigning can be clean and clear of all BS. This petition puts forth a call for congress to pass a bill that requires all campaigns for house and senate congress positions as well as presidential position campaigns to run honest ads and debates. It invites a fine of sizeable amount (5% of gross amount in campaign account) be taken from the candidate who supports an ad that is false or gives false information during a debate. This money is then to be given to reduce the national debt or into a campaign finance reform fund for a committee to utilize for establishing a new campaign finance law.

The corruption of our Democracy by Money.....

The Citizens United ruling giving corporations personhood and allowing corporations to bribe their way into government must be repealed. California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont have all passed resolutions through their legislatures, and majorities of legislators in Connecticut and Maryland sent letters to Congress calling for a constitutional amendment opposing the ruling; Colorado and Montana just passed the resolution as a result of the election on Tuesday. I want Pennsylvania voters to have their say.

We the people sent congress to Washington D.C., so they work for us. We want congress to work with the president in his second term.

We need to Ask Harry Reid to Change the rules of the Senate to discontinue the rules permitting members of the Senate to put Anonymous Filibusters in place preventing transparency and accountablity.

Congress is not working, literally. Nothing gets done not only because of the idea of "gridlock," but also because legislators never have to get together to work things out. Make legislators "normal" federal employees, with two weeks of vacation per year, all federal holidays, and that is it. By being forced to be physically with the opposition, legislators will find common ground.

Make every citizen's vote count, and count equally, for electing the president of the U.S., by replacing the electoral college system with a simple nation-wide popular vote system.

I believe that our country would be better off if politicians were elected to serve the people, and not themselves with career politics. I haven't met a single person that disagrees with term limits for congress.

Long lines that stretch for blocks, standing and waiting for 4, 5, 7 hours is not helpful or healthy to our democracy. Voters who are white collar professionals, doctors, lawyers, they can afford to take long amounts of time away from work, not so for those who are nurses, teachers, bus drivers. Healthy people could stand in line for hours at a time, but those with disabilities, those with health problems, they are not physically able to stand for hours on end just to cast a ballot. This petition is created to force political leaders from all sides to resolve this issue, to improve the process for voting, to encourage and foster participation in American democracy by the entire voting eligible population.