I recently got major surgery which my doctor told me was necessary to prevent cancer. I have insurance only because of the Affordable Care Act. Due to a pre-existing condition, I have never been able to get insurance coverage before, so the Affordable Care Act effectively prevented me from becoming a cancer patient.

Trump and all but 20 Republicans just pushed through an awful bill that would strip healthcare coverage from 10s of millions of Americans, scrap protections for the most vulnerable, and cost Americans thousands more per year while sopping more money on the wealthy. ADA is making a list, checking it twice, and the naughty will be punished. Join us is letting them know that you will Repeal and Replace them in 2018.

The election of Donald Trump has in part been seen as a failure of the news media. There has never been a more critical time for Americans to learn the truth about his blatant conflicts of interest, his dangerous foreign policy, his willful ignorance about government, and the truth about his campaign's role in the Russian hacking of our election. I cannot fulfill my role as an informed citizen participating in making our government serve the people rather than the rich and the corporations without being informed about domestic and foreign policy. MSNBC is my primary source of being so informed.

Tacoma City Council, 1. Adopt a Sanctuary City Resolution: Codify into Tacoma City ordinance that police officers will not act as defacto immigration agents, that City employees refrain from performing duties from the Department of Homeland Security, and that the City will not cooperate or assist with any unconstitutional or illegal registration or surveillance programs targeted at any immigrants in Tacoma. 2. Continue to block any expansion of the Northwest Detention Center or any private correctional facilities across the City of Tacoma. If necessary, legislate changes to the City code to ensure this is enforced. With Trump’s expansion to the deportation machine, our City needs to be proactive to prevent the detention of undocumented immigrants. 3. Create a legal defense fund for undocumented immigrants who currently do not have a right to legal representation in immigration proceedings even though the federal government is legally represented throughout the process. Legal representation will ensure that immigrants are 10.5 times more likely to remain in their community. 4. Initiate the Immigrant and Refugee Task Force to address issues facing undocumented immigrants living and working in our City. This task force should include include diverse representation of immigrants, undocumented immigrants, refugees, and LGBTQ, labor, educators, faith, and ally community leaders.

The company behind Keystone XL wants to build a fracked-gas pipeline through Western Maryland. If built, the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, crossing through Maryland and under the Potomac River and the C&O Canal along the way. More than 6 million people get their drinking water from the Potomac River, and this pipeline project would jeopardize the quality of the water they depend on. Governor Hogan recently signed the statewide ban on fracking into law, and now he has the chance to protect the drinking water for millions of Marylanders again by denying the Clean Water Act certification that is required for this pipeline to move forward. Urge him to deny the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project's 401 Water Quality Certificate.

The inept and cruel Republican Congress passed an inhumane health care bill that will cause death and suffering to their constituents, while giving the wealthy a 2 percent tax cut. The Health Care Bill does not protect people with pre-existing conditions, does not cover woman who have been raped, babies born with serious medical conditions, children with cancer or even pay for an ambulance ride for someone having a heart attack. Republicans celebrated as they condemned many Americans to death. Regardless of what happens in the Senate, don't forgot what they are trying to do to us, to families, friends, neighbors. Pledge three dollars to support every Democrat that runs in your state. Ask your friends to do the same. Knock on doors and then get out and vote. Let's work to end the careers of those who care nothing about their constituents. Let's create an avalanche and turn the House and Senate blue.

The special tax laws violate the 1st amendment,. the special laws relieve RO's from filing tax returns and all transparency. Since a RO doesn't even have to file for this designation there is no way to know how many exist or if money is being collected by or used to fund terrorist organizations. All religious organizations should register as regular 501(c)(3) non profits if they want to avoid paying taxes. There must be transparency.

As a veterinarian, I have seen first-hand how medical cannabis benefits animals in ways conventional Western medicine cannot. Currently, veterinarians are being threatened with disciplinary action if they have "involvement in the treatment of an animal with marijuana or hemp." Let's allow veterinarians to do what they are trained to do- provide recommendations for the safe and effective treatment of pets.

I'm genuinely fed up with these short term "solutions" to long term problems. People come to America for the opportunity to be safe and free. They leave their homes because whatever they are leaving behind is way worse than being poverty stricken in America. That says a lot about our nation as a whole and is why I am proud to be American, why we all should be! Unfortunately I think we are using Mexico as scapegoat for our own problems and proposing to waste a ton of money on something that won't change a damnthing. If you build a wall we will still have addicts, criminals and people on welfare. Banning immigrants and building walls won't change that. Changing our perspective will. WHY are there so many opioid addicts? WHAT is going on with Mexico that people want to leave? WHY did that criminal make that choice? HOW could it have been prevented? Look at the big picture! I have seen plenty of media regarding the proposed expansion of the wall, but nothing yet about removing the wall. Let's put people to work removing the border completely.

New York has the opportunity to do something on behalf of the people of the United States of America that we cannot do for ourselves and force the release of the state tax returns of the President. This will also set an excellent legal precedent for future disclosure for ALL of our elected officials who should not be allowed to secretly profit from their public service at the cost of our security and ability to make informed choices of who our representatives are beholden to.

Republicans have no idea how to create a just and fair piece of legislation to improve or replace A.C.A. ( Affordable Care Act). They will push through any piece of garbage, call it Trumpcare, and think they have satisfied their goal of repealing Obamacare, which they are still attempting after 7 years without success. They have no idea how to create a good health care bill with bi-partisanship that will truly help America and make it "Great Again," in Trump's words.

The medical community, the AARP, and the citizens of Arkansas do not want this bill and feel that it is damaging to the health of millions of Americans. We are tired of our elected officials playing partisan politics and demand that you put the best interests of this country ahead of party.