1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.

The "equal time" requirement for the press and public airwaves reporting on political opinion was taken out, very quietly, by congress during the Reagan years. It has allowed the dramatic increase in "hate politics" without any refutation, that is undermining American democracy. This petition calls upon Congress to restore a much needed means of civility.

Voting on entitlements, pay raises, health insurance plan, retirement plan, for Congress. Congress will no longer be aloud to vote in pay raises for themselves. we the people will vote for their entitlements.

In a time where health insurance is at an all time high, and some people stay at jobs just to ensure health benefits, is it right for our lawmakers to receive free healthcare, guaranteed pensions, three weeks paid vacation and unlimited paid sick days? Shouldn't the lawmakers of this country have to pay into and receive social security like everyone else? Why are they given better benefits than those they are representing on top of large salaries?

I'm sick and tired of our congressional representatives holding to party lines at the expense of the American people. We are being held hostage by their intractibility, ideologies, greed and stubbornness. I say this: if a representative or senator is resistant to compromise and if important legislation is stalled by that person, her or she should be voted out. It's simple to keep track of who is working across the aisle or not -- let's hold their feet to the fire if they don't cooperate, and let's start with this upcoming election.

I am a Minnesotain and I am ashamed of Michele Bachmann. Her hate and unsupported statements continue to ruin peoples' lives from around the country. It's time that we DEMAND her removal from Congress, either by her own will, or by pressure from her own party and the US at large.

i think we have all been affected, by this do nothing congress. if most or all members had been in the public sector with a work record like this they would have been fired.

The Tea Party has spent a lot of energy insisting that in order to collect unemployment, welfare or any other form of government assistance, that we need to drug test the recipents. We need put to a vote the concept of buying a weapon requires a clean drug test too.

Preventing gun and ammo purcheses on the internet.

Qualified Immunnity in the courts, politics and in the legal world allows a special group of people to be free of all penalties. The commoner is subject to all penalities. fines, loss of jobs, prison. The people that created and made legal this entittlement, are the very special group that enjoys its luxury. No fines, no job loss and no prison sentence. Any person who had suffered any of these penalties in this country are the commoner. Sign this petion to stop and eliminate this practice and make everyone EQUAL.

We ask you to take a hard look at what is happening in the United States Senate. We are losing our democracy and the chief responsibility lies with Harry Reid. Senator Reid is the Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate for the Democrats and he not only squandered the wins and mandates of the 2008 election for the Democrats, he has turned democracy itself on it's head, by failing to act effectively on behalf of the majority of Americans who voted in U.S. Senate races. We are Democrats. In 2008 we worked hard to get Democrats elected to office and we achieved a huge mandate by electing President Obama and strong majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Harry Reid has essentially nullified these wins. Since 2008 Senate Republicans have used the filibuster to block everything they can. The recent Republican filibusters are at a historic high and have resulted in the Senate being tied in knots. Harry Reid failed to use his bully pulpit to shame this practice from the start, and in January 2011 he failed to tighten the filibuster rules to prevent this overdose. We can blame Republicans all we want, but the truth is; Harry Reid is incompetent as the Senate Majority Leader and he has neglected his responsibility to represent us. Senator Reid created Super Committees comprised of equal numbers of Republicans to Democrats, again negating the strong mandate of the 2008 elections for Democrats, and negating the majorities we won in 2010. Harry Reid needs to be replaced now; preferably no later than September 2012. We ask our Democratic Senators to select a colleague who will keep a dialogue with the American people, explaining clearly and concisely what major legislation is being drafted and why it is important. We ask for a respected, progressive Democrat with persuasive speaking skills and a full understanding of how to use the Senate Rules most effectively and in keeping with ideals of representing the will of the people. With the above qualities in mind, we suggest the following U.S. Senators be considered most strongly for this critical position: Sharrod Brown, Richard Durbin, Tom Harkin, Patty Murray, Charles Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse. Please sign this petitition and send it to everyone you know that cares about having democracy and transparency in our United States Senate. Ask all Democratic candidates in every office, in private and in public forums to work hard at influencing our Democratic Senators to replace Harry Reid, in leadership, by September 2012. Mahalo, Christine Mingo and Michael Janovsky

Dedicate the presidential campaign to Aurora, Colorado. Campaign with facts and proactive declarations not violence, anger, hostility, attacks, negative spins etc. Be the change you want.