16 trillion in debt and over 300 billion in interest every year

As we watched Al Gore win the popular vote in 2000 and "lose" the election in the Electoral College because of winner-take-all counting in most states, I thought, how is this possible and how can we change it? I learned that each state has the right to determine how their electoral votes are assigned, and that several already have proportional voting. Let's make this a practice here in Massachusetts.

Currently the fund is underfunded, because it's been misused by Congress. Replenish the fund with interest before increasing the age, to the level it should be. If this means Congressmen giving up their pensions then that's only fair, since they depleted and possibly bankrupted the fund in the first place. Too many times do they get by, by manipulating programs at their current status instead of making them right and using them for what they were originally intended.

Let us voting citizens vote for any and all Elected officials wages and benefits.

My petition is about TERM LIMITS. We have them for the President but NOT for members of Congress. So many representatives and senators are elected and then think they are entitled to a lifetime job. I believe they should be limited to 3 terms for Senator and 4 terms for Representative.

Candidates should each get equal $$$ for running a campaign.

We must have term limits for all US legislators. A line item veto would also be great and in-power the executive branch of government to eliminate the bartering of votes for "pork Barrel" state and local federal funds which would enable the president the power to balance the budget.

Pass a constitutional amendment that says supreme court justices must be re-confirmed by the senate every 10 years by a straight up or down vote

Congressional Reform Act of 2012

On 6-25-12, the Supreme Court reaffirmed Citizens United when it overturned Montana's 100-year old state law limiting corporate spending in elections. Ultimately the only way to reverse the now permissible giving of unlimited and undisclosed campaign contributions is by amending the Constitution. And to get complete disclosure of where the money is coming from would take an act of Congress. Both of these remedies will take a long time and success is not assured. The purpose of this petition is to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules on an expedited basis that would require publicly traded companies to disclose all political contributions of $2000 or more to any candidate, campaign fund, political party or super PAC in any given calendar year. Any contributions falling under this rule would need to be reported in a monthly SEC filing and all such contributions would need to be set forth in the annual report to shareholders, in a section of the report that immediate follows disclosure of executive compensation. Shareholders when investing in a company have a right to know how much revenue is being devoted to political contributions (now that there is no limit) and precisely who and what are the beneficiaries of the corporation's generosity. This type of disclosure is similar to the existing disclosure rules on executive salary, bonuses and benefits as investors have a right to know how much money is being spent in an area where there is much discretion.

Corporations and our Courts have stolen our most precious right, our right to vote in a free and fair election. Currently, what determines "elect ability" is the amount of money in any two candidates bank accounts. Equal time is rarely provided to lesser funded candidates and, getting the big-money candidates to debate the lesser funded candidate(s), prior to the primary election has become impossible. In some states, only the top two move on thus eliminating the potential rise of any legitimate third party.

Each party should have three filibusters available for each term of congress!