This petition is from American citizens who are fed up with the out-of-control spikes in gas prices every year by excessive oil speculation and market manipulation that is causing financial hardships for families and threatens the stability of the U.S. economy. President Obama, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Congress must act to enforce title VII of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010. With this petition we are calling on President Barack Obama, the chairman of the CFTC and Congress to join Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) along with 70 members of Congress who wrote a letter to regulators at the CFTC, urging immediate action on oil speculation and stand up for the American people and enforce the law with the financial regulations that were past in 2010 in order to put an end to excessive oil speculation and market manipulation.

This petition is from American citizens who are fed up with the out-of-control spikes in gas prices every year by excessive oil speculation and market manipulation that is causing financial hardships for families and threatens our national security and the stability of the U.S. economy. President Obama, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Congress must act now to enforce title VII of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010. With this petition we are calling on President Barack Obama, the chairman of the CFTC and Congress to act now and join Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) along with 70 members of Congress who wrote a letter to regulators at the CFTC, urging immediate action on oil speculation and to stand up for the American people and enforce the law with the financial regulations that were past in 2010 to put an end to excessive oil speculation and market manipulation.

Republican Chris Smith has been in Congress (NJ 4th District) for 32 years and we have had 32 years of increased spending, continuing deficits, and ballooning national debt. You can't change Congress without changing the Congressman. He is one of the impediments to getting anything done in Congress. (See www.froelich4congress.com )

The endless bickering between the Democratic and Republic parties is counter-productive. Personalities aside, the parties have cooperated for decades on invasions, cutting taxes for the wealthiest, supporting Big Business, foiling a rational healthcare system, etc. Let's merge--for the sake of efficiency and national healing.

Money controls everything in the world and now in politics, and it breaks large portions of our system...causing abuses of our laws. Even today, two "money men" decided who would be the two front runners in the GOP primarys...so whoever would vote, only had the choice the two Money men put in place, basically negating the "choices" of the voters, and further causing my vote not to count.

Everyone has a problem with congress. unless you're in congress. Corruption runs rampant and no one does anything about it. So let's limit their power. I say no more lifelong senators or house representatives.

How can a democracy survive when it is perfectly legal to lie and slander a public figure? Please sign my petition to reverse the 1964 Supreme Court decision that if you are a public official, you are not protected by the defamation laws. In 1967, they were expanded to include all public figures. Now people believe that if it is said on TV or the radio, it has to be true. Which is simply not true. They can and do lie.

Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a federal Constitutional amendment eliminating the arcane Electoral College and providing for the popular election of President of the United States.

My petition is simply about ending the 'lobbying system' (which is a euphamism for legal bribery.) People should sign it because congress will never do this on their own. These legal bribes are essentially what gets them re-elected. Only the voices of the people can end it.

The Congress makes decisions every day that impact citizens in this great country of ours except for themselves. This petition is simple. Congress would be limited and unable to have any health care provided by tax dollars in excess of any citizen of the USA. A child goes without, so should they!

It is time for professional politicians to step away from DC., and to begin anew with citizen involvement in government, whereby elected officials other than the president are also limited to two terms. That is it. No careers in DC becoming millionaires, just citizens who want the best for the country battling out laws, doing their job, then going home. No lifelong medical coverage, no pension, just a paycheck, social security deductions, and no unemployment benefits.

We are Americans and this is our nation, our home. Power has been taken away from us through money and politics. When we see such anomalies as the Citizens United decision and the equating of 'money as speech' by our highest court, we know it is time to clean house and take back control of our government. We know it is time to take money entirely out of politics.