All current and future retirees are concerned about our retirement safety net.

Unemployment is at 7.6% and many of those people are on Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC); let the Congress live on unemployment and see if they can live with a 22.2% cut in benefits. Why should people who are unemployed be punished because the Congress can’t get what they want from the President?

Hours are being drastically cut at the Burton Post Office. This is the first phase to closing the post office. The Burton Post Office is located on Vashon Island and provides service to hundreds of people, particularly on the south end of the island. The Burton post office is an important part of the community.

Nearly 50% of the people receiving food stamps are children. The 20 billion dollars in cuts proposed by the House would make 2 million households ineligible for this benefit. For children, no food stamps means no eligibility for a free school lunch, which certainly leads to an inability to learn and may mean no food at all for them that day. This is happening NOW, how can you even think of making it worse? The Senate is proposing 4 billion dollars in cuts, but even that is too much. Food stamp benefits need to be INCREASED! A hungry child is a child who can't learn, and a generation of people who cannot fulfill their potential is a generation of workers who cannot compete in the global marketplace.

Yes, someone I care about lives on less than 800 dollars a month. She can't afford to pay rent and utilities and buy "luxuries" like soap and toilet paper or able to afford to do laundry. Many of the poor aren't dirty because they want to be. It cost money to stay clean. She goes hungry at least 1 week out of the month. She can't afford to buy the healthy foods she needs for her diabetes and heart problems. It's a life of pain, terror, misery and feeling degraded for those in America who are truly too sick, disabled, and/or too elderly to be able to work no matter how much they wish they could.

Massive cuts over two years in Medicare to Nursing Homes

I will be affected by the attempt to balance the budget and "save social security" by implementing the chain CPI. The is a better way to balance the budget of the federal government and make social security viable for well into the future.

Many residents who depends on n21, n23, and n27 buses are forced to wait an hour when connecting buses at Greenvale or Roslyn Station don't wait for each others. This is very incovience since weekend service on n23 and n27 is every hour, while n20 trips to/from Hicksville has less service on Sundays.

The Senate voted to pull Medicaid expansion from the state budget, sacrificing billions in federal dollars and hundreds of jobs. This move was pure politics. The Senators who voted this way are willing to leave 58,000 Granite Staters uninsured just so they can say they did everything in their power to defeat "ObamaCare". They claim that accepting the federal funds is a "gamble" even though they know D.C. has always kept its Medicaid promises and even helped states more during tough economic times. The fight's not over yet! The next stop is the Committee of Conference between the Senate and House. Sign the petition below to let your State Senator know that New Hampshire will not miss out on an opportunity to do the right thing in order to help our friends and neighbors here in the Granite State.

Food stamps cuts Recortes al programa de estampillas de comida

I would like the govenment to look into the procedures of hospital's medics of walking into your hospital room, providing no service, and then charging Medicare and the patient a fee when they have done nothing (no service) for the patient and yet charge Medicare and the patient. I was recently hospitalized for orthopeadic surgery and noticed this in my billing. Some of these medics charged Medicare daily for no service.

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