My son 16 Christian A. Dotson 16 yr old honor student lived a life of hope and promise! The dreams Christian had were cut short when he was murdered with an illegal gun on the streets of Philadelphia. My son Christian along with many other youths never get the opportunity to live out their dreams, they're just waited on night after night to visit loved ones in dreams! We need stricter gun control laws. RIP Son and the many scores of silenced voices due to gun violence. Christian deserves a vote!

Some legislators are all too ready to throw the powerless under the bus in the name of deficit reduction. Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, will not only damage the economy, but will be disastrous for the elderly, who already have trouble making ends meet. That's why I've started this petition to Representative Nugent asking him to sign the letter created by Alan Grayson, FL, and Mark Takano, CA, which promises to vote against any proposed cut to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We need jobs, not cuts to the big three—and our representatives must listen to their constituents.

Utah adoption laws are harmful to the rights of fathers. In a recent case of Terry Achane, it took him nearly 3 years to have his child returned to him after his now ex-wife, Tira Bland, illegally put Teleah Achane up for adoption. Other fathers have similar stories. Tragedies like this, perpetrated by people of poor character, must be stopped.

The State of Vermont currently hands over much of its funds to big out of state banks and Wall St. for safekeeping. Many of us believe that keeping our money in a publicly owned state bank would be a much less risky way to keep public moneys. A state partnership bank would partner with local community banks to help grow the economy of Vermont in ways that would better benefit all Vermonters. S.55 would set up a task force to examine the most efficient ways of managing state funds which is a necessary step on the path to creating a Vermont Partnership Bank.

The White House petition to expand HARP 3.0 #MyRefi is currently up on the White House website and the petition needs to reach 100,000 signatures before there is a response from the President of the United States. HARP 3.0 has not yet become a reality, which has frustrated many homeowners who are still currently struggling to make their mortgage payments and cannot do anything about it. Homeowners that are still “underwater” on their property and/or make less income than before the recession hit cannot qualify for a new mortgage. Currently, if you refinanced using the HARP program before, you cannot use it again or if your loan was endorsed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac on or after June 1st, 2009 you cannot take advantage of the program at all. HARP 3.0 would possibly revamp those provisions.

Staten Islanders and Brooklynites in CD 11 call upon Michael Grimm to continue in the direction of ending gun violence, by supporting federal legislative priorities: background checks, ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. He has already signed on to a bipartisan bill increasing penalties and law enforcement for gun trafficking, which is a great start!

I live in Mainlands 4, a retirement community, next to a proposed development that will add over 1,000 residents in a narrow slice of land with only 1 point of ingress and egress. This will create extremely dangerous conditions on the ONLY road leading into and out of the development. There are no sidewalks and the 2 lane street was not designed for an additional 1,000+ vehicles a day. Most of you are aware of how vehemently this development has been opposed from the beginning. We were lied to by past politicians who promised this would never happen. Now it's time for you to right this terrible wrong. Protecting our citizens and our way of life should be your top priority. Do the right thing and stop this hated, ill conceived development. Save our way of life!

Mississippi has joined 32 other states in a coalition to demand the labeling of our food products, many of which have identical legislation before their legislators in the 2013 session.

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The state of New Mexico is consistantly rated as one of the worst 5 states in regard to animal abuse and neglect. Every year hundreds of animals are neglected, abused and starved. And thousands of other animals are euthanized. It is time to try to put some bite into the law.

I bought a brand new home built by a "Reputable" large builder. Within 3 years I noticed cracks and structural damage. I asked the builder to buy the house back.The Builder walked away told me to sue them. 3 years and $200k later I am nowhere. NHIC (National Home Insurance Co) also refuses to pay on the structural policy I have with them. They agreed the house is structurally not sound and accepted my claim only to later change their mind...?...

China & Korea actually BOIL dogs & cats alive! We should boycott their products till they stop this sick & inhumane practice!