Father of the Pride was an amazing show and has been gone for too long, and it must make a comeback!

Trumpcare, the AHCA, threatens the healthcare of millions of people with Pre-Existing Conditions and will eliminate healthcare coverage for over 24 Million people. The Affordable Care Act can be made stronger by bipartisan Congressional action to improve the Individual Marketplaces.

The older pay more, the coverage is worse, the rich get a tax break. People need the preventive care offered by the ACA. Trumpcare abandons those guarantees. It's a bad bill.

As a small business owner and someone past middle age, I won't be able to insure myself and my daughter when the premiums increase. A nation of sick people who can't work is not cost effective.

Dear Senator: Coverage for people with pre-existing conditions: Is this not a reason to keep the law in place?" Pregnancy is a pre-existing conditon. What about impotence? Women seem to be a major target in repealing the ACA (Obamacare). It is not perfect, and insurance and pharmeceutical companies got a larger piece of the pie than necessary. However, the House's repeal means less coverage and potentially more foreclosures, among other problems. Senators and Representatives have healthcare for life. Why can't we repeal that? We urge you to vote no on the HB repeal.

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.