Eliminating the Ceiling on the Payroll Tax.

Applying for EDD is a large headache for many disabled citizens in California. I am one of them. You have to call the 800 number at least 60 times or more to get a customer service rep. Once you get them online. The are rushed to do their jobs to meet a quota it seems, so they give out flawed and untrue information to the caller. I have had several reps, tell me 25 statements about receiving the debit card. None were true. The landlord was trying to evict me from my apartment, I had to call the electrical company and beg them not to turn of my electricity. Friends had to loan me monies for food and gas so I could get to the doctors for treatment. I wrote the Governor, called the Governors office several times, they were nice enough to put me through to the Executive Office of EDD, I would leave a message, no one will call you back. I call the Governor's office again, they put me through to the executive EDD office and stayed on the line with me and made sure someone answered, they did and ask for my social security number and and my name and said that they would have someone call me back that day. No one never called me and it is weeks later. I had to fax a letter to the Governor's office with other documents to prove what I was complaining about. I filed for EDD in September and it is November, I still haven't received the debit card yet.

To Extend Social Security Benefits to heterosexual seniors in legally recognized long-term Domestic Partnerships.

We are seeing the ineptitude of LIPA's management here on Long Island in the aftermath of Sandy. Bring a strong organization in to reduce our costs and better communicate with us. This should be the first step in rebuilding long Island's power grid. We ask the Governor to take bold action.

Obama proposed High Speed Rail be created throughout the United States. Somehow or other, it has been side tracked, and/or killed (as by the Florida Governor). I would like to see it prioritized and created throughout the United States as quickly as possible. This is part of the infrastructure that needs attention throughout the country.

Congressmen who vote on Social Security and Medicare cuts should not be allowed have privileged health insurance because they work for us. So if they cut our benefits, they should not be allowed to have special insurance and perks. They should live off of social security like their constituents do.

The Debt Ceiling negotiations with Republicans are a threat to Medicare and Social Security. There should be no cuts to Medicare or Social Security in the :"Grand Bargain" with Republicans.

Weather incidents like Deracho, Sandy, Isabel and snowmaggeddon resulted in electrical power loss so that gas stations over wide areas could not pump fuel for several days and recovery has taken longer than needed. Operating machinery and vehicles is not possible without liquid fuels.

My petition is about not allowing electronics by the parent or children in a supervised visit. I have conducted many supervised visitations where the parents bring in their electronics and are on them the whole visit and the children are playing on these devices. I feel this is a big issue; because parents are trying to get their children back, but are not communicating with their children. Instead they answer their cell phones or play games on their devices while the child does the same thing. The supervised visit is only an hour and I feel parents and children can live without electronics for an hour. The only exception to this is if they have to have a cell phone for work purposes only.

The train horns have been silenced only on the southern half of New Lenox, Il. What about the rest of the village, especially along Rt. 30?

This is not time for runners and diverting the services needed for our recovery.

It's been less than a week since one of the most devastating environmental disasters this country has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands in New York and the surrounding area are struggling without electricity, food, clean water and transportation. This is the worst of all times to have 50,000 people going to New York, disrupting its transportation and diverting its resources from people who direly need them. Postpone the New York Marathon.