We have truth in advertising for businesses. Something as important as running our country, we allow our politicians to lie and mislead the public over our airwaves. Special interest groups can lie about political issues over the public airwaves. We have the right to expect truth over our public airwaves.

To pass a national law/amendment that none of our elected representative serving in government should receive a retirement, or health care benefits, that is better than what the citizens of the United States receive when they retire. If such an amendment was added to our Constitution it would give the Congress and Senate the incentive to save Social Security and Medicare. This is one item every voter would agree on, except politicians of course.

My petition is about the driving age and why the law will not move the driving age down to where kids 15 could drive . So why do we have to wait until we are 16 .

Elected politicians ignore constituents - you/family/community - to misuse their position/influence on other agendas. I'm sickened by allegiances (sweep aside sworn duties in a Republican pledge to Norquist) & other projects when constituents' needs are ignored. Voting them out is slow/costly! NO PAYCHECK EACH TIME THEY DON'T WORK FOR YOU!

It is a terrible waste of money, resources and time regarding the amount of advertising and campaigning that is done before any election. I believe it should be illegal to advertise or campaign more than 90 days prior to any election.

Last week, Romney spokesman, John Sununu, called the President of the United States lazy and dumb on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Show. This kind of racially-charged statement has no place in a civil discourse. I call on Mitt Romney to condemn such talk and relieve John Sununu of his position in the Romney campaign.

Campaign funds are an endless field of corruption. The group who "donates" the most gets listened to the most. If we cut off all campaign funding then everyone gets an equal say, instead of the current, " You vote the way I want, then I will donate x amount of dollars to your campaign." This is a ridiculous way of doing it, and is an easy fix. This effects everyone everyday. I am a veteran, and a bill was voted against recently, that would help veterans get jobs. What is the down side of this? How is this bad? Yet it was shot down, because of grudges and deep pockets.

Indiana is the only state in the union that does not comply with national standards that the states were supposed to follow when this Federal law was passed. We have documented case after case where seniors are not being protected by APS. The neglect and exploitation of seniors in Indiana has stop. One case that was investigated by our APS was a 80 year old woman who lived in a small town. The person who had Power of Attorney hired two neighbors to be her caregivers who were inexperienced. The APS Investigator said she was fine. A couple of months later she was taken to her doctor with what the caregivers described as rug burns. The doctor immediately had her transported to an Indianapolis Burn Center where she was diagnosed with severe scald burns. She died two months later in a nursing home and there was no investigation.

I'm tired of hearing Romney and Ryan lie. And I'm tired of hearing moderators and talking heads ignore their lies, and go on with the program as if the lies and the truth are equal. Americans are not stupid. We demand the truth. We demand that when someone lies, you call them on it--then and there. Otherwise you are contributing to the destruction of our government and our country.

I'd like to create a petition to limit bills being proposed in the House or Senate to contain only material related to the main concept of the bill so that poisonous unrelated junk can't be added before it's considered for passage. Ex: birth control coverage added to a farm bill. Each issue should be considered separately and passed or rejected on its own merits.

How can a legislator that signs a document promoted by a lobbyist and vows to NEVER raise taxes, be fit to govern? They have compromised their ability to come to reasonable solutions for the nation's problems. They have, in effect, given up part of their ability to govern by signing an agreement sponsored by a non-elected official. The inaction by Congress has hamstrung the function of government. Signing such a document without legal review should be a crime.

Abolishing the Electoral College will halt in large measure the rising tide of regionalism in the U.S. and assure that the vote of every American voter matter equally, no matter in which state they reside. With this antique mechanism gone, it also likely that potential electoral misconduct would be largely eliminated with the dissolution of the concept of the "swing state."