To ask Congress particularly the Republicans to stop obstructing everything. To compromise. To work for the benefit of The American People. To not pass a budget that ends Social Security and Medicare. To not end food stamps that leave hungry kids to starve.

Between 2009 and 2011, Senate Republicans killed hundreds of bills passed by the Pelosi House through abuse of the Filibuster Rule. Recently the bill to keep tuition interest from doubling was killed despite the presence of a majority of Senators in favor. Harry Reid recently admitted that he made a terrible mistake by not changing the rule to avoid abuse when he last had a chance in Jan 2011. This petition proposes a new filibuster rule that would eliminate such abuse by either party in the future.

While our governent bleeds money, elected politicians continously vote themselves pay raises, while cutting back room deals to fire or reduce pay for workers who actually provide services. They have no sense of urgency to correct the issues as people loose thier jobs, homes, and savings. It is the responsibility for both partities to work together and solve issues. Those who cannot, are not doing thier jobs and should have thier pay ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY. Both sides of the aisle continue to live from fat salaries and benefits, while the working class dies on the vine with no help.

We hear so much about the importance of voting, but every day I hear that the Presidential Election is actually determined by voters in a hadfull of "swing" Districts. As a person who cares deeply, but usually lives in an area where my views are in the minority, I want my vote to count!

While being sworn in as a Notary in Pennsylvania, I was asked to swear on the Christian bible. Months later, while on a jury, I was asked to do the same thing. The final straw was while I was obtaining a marriage license and was asked again to swear on the Christian bible. Separation of church and state is apparently not honored as these were all legal matters and the state continues to show favoritism towards one religion (or a religion at all). We must ask to have religious texts banned from matters which are legal in nature.

Barack Obama campaigned on hope and change. He said "yes we can" and people agreed. Some changes have been made, however we need to push for as many changes as possible a) in the remainder of this term and b) if he gets reelected. Obama is working with an extremely difficult Congress however we have to continue to push for changes as hard as possible.

All of our adult lives we "law abiding", hard working seniours have contdributed to the "Greater Good". Now, the people who are supposed to represent us, want to deny us a support system in our old age. I believe that the only way to help them to see the folly of such is to use our collective political power to take away some of their benefits. We do have that right, don't we? We, the People, can and should make them "cut back" as well.

The abuses of the IP system, especially patents, are well known, and it is understood that they are so extreme as to threaten our economy. However, before I became an intellectual property attorney (and at least a part of the reason I became an IP attorney) is that IP as it applies to small entities can be very important, and a major force for the good of our nation. Specifically, as a small inventor, I had two inventions stolen from me due to the lack of protection (I had not patented them), and one of them was rather valuable (both of them were inventions I was working on to bring to perfection, and, in fact, had spent considerable sums on, so not JUST ideas, these were inventions). However, Congress has mandated that the USPTO be profitable, and at the same time has mandated that small inventors get huge discounts. To ensure profitability, the USPTO has made the Examiners responsible for profitability personally. The inevitable result - small entity patents, no matter how valuable, are routinely rejected - with NO recourse by an independent agency! The certain result will be a decline in true innovation in the US!

This Act will enable candidates to run for office using small donations from average individuals along with matching public funds. If this Act passes a candidate can choose not to take money from special interests or lobbyists.

Increasing the number of Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court to fifteen to better handle the ever increasing number of cases reaching the Court.

We need to change the "Entitlements" of those who are serving and who have served in Congress to be in keeping with the majority of the people they serve. Will they have the courage to do the right thing?

The American voting system is clumsy and outdated. The success of our democracy hinges on our vote (the symbol of our voice). The sooner we upgrade our election process to something more sophisticated, like Borda Count, where we give points to each candidate according to our preference and the candidate with the most points, wins, The sooner we will see real hope and change. This allows alternative parties to compete and the election cannot be gamed by party splits or dirty politics. It is because of the ineffectiveness of our election process that we have ineffective government. Please sign this petition and let's send a message to the president that we want him to put the success of the nation above the success of the too big to fail, Democratic party.