I know people who are suffering due to lack of healthcare. I believe that universal healthcare is the best way to take care of all of our citizens.

Pennsylvania has more Lyme an tick-borne infections than any other state, but has few doctors who treat chronic Lyme, with about 20% of patients being chronic. Insurance companies deny payment for long-term treatment, relying on infectious disease guidelines, no longer in effect, having been removed by the National Institute of Guidelines. PA doctors fear losing their licenses for treating Lyme disease long term. PA Senate Bill 100 protects doctors and requires insurance company pay for all prescribed Lyme diease treatment. The bill is in the Insurance & Banking Committee chaired by Sen. Donald C. White, who refuses to let this Bill out of committee, since he is in the insurance industry. Please contact Sen. White at Senate Box 203041, Harrisburg PA 17120-3041 at 717-787-8724 to support this Bill. If you're a PA, contact your state senator, as well, and urge him/her to pressure Sen. White to bring this bill to the full senate , where it will pass. Thank you, Peggy Boyce Furey, mother of son afflicted with chronic Lyme disease.

We are students at Marvin Ridge Middle School. We will be driving soon and this intersection is one that we will use to get to school. It is a very dangerous intersection and we don't want to have to risk our lives every day or see any more accidents happen. Two other traffic circles are going to be installed on this same road within the next 6 months. This intersection is the most dangerous one on the street but DOT doesn't have it on the schedule with the other two traffic circles. This intersection needs to be made safer immediately before someone loses their life.

Has your child or has a child you know been exposed to graphic images online? Chances are yes; the stats are shocking, more than 80% of our children have been exposed to graphic pornographic content online by the age of 11. Why are we, as a society, allowing this kind of content to be accessed so easily by so many of our children? It just doesn't make any sense. Don't let the online pornographers be the ones teaching our children about intimacy. Stand with me and say no! Let's protect our children from this inappropriate and damaging online content!

Members, Supporters and Partners of The Florida State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are calling on Governor Rick Scott to rescind his decision to remove State Attorney Aramis Ayala from the Markeith Lloyd case. State Attorney Ayala made a sensible decision about the use of prosecutorial resources in her jurisdiction. After a detailed review, she announced that she would no longer seek the death penalty in future cases. She had ample reason to come to this decision because the death penalty is an expensive, unnecessary, unreliable, and racially-biased punishment. The death penalty wastes prosecutorial, defense, judicial, and correctional resources. Pursuing the death penalty requires additional resources given the literal life-and-death stakes of the prosecution. A death penalty case necessitates additional procedural protections, lengthy jury selection, an involved sentencing phase, and an intricate appeals process. Even the possibility of the death penalty raises costs because of additional pre-trial preparation and investigation in potentially capital cases. These costs continue in prison with the need for a separate death row and the costs of execution. Given this reality, it is unsurprising that Florida spends an estimated $51 million a year on the death penalty. Florida taxpayers pay approximately $3.2 million to prosecute, convict, and execute a single person. And what for? There is no reliable evidence that the death penalty makes communities any safer. In fact, the Florida communities that do not impose death sentences have lower crime rates that those that do. Even with the additional procedures instituted in death penalty cases, Florida’s death penalty system has proven unreliable in determining who is guilty, which crimes are the worst-of-the-worst, and in complying with constitutional standards. With 26 death row exonerees, Florida leads the nation in the number of innocent people freed from death row. The courts have reduced the death sentences of hundreds of Florida death row inmates to life sentences, and Florida’s death penalty has been repeatedly found unconstitutional. The racially-biased application of Florida’s death penalty is another compelling reason not to pursue it. The death penalty is inextricably intertwined with a history of mob violence against Black people. In Florida, there is clear bias in the way the race of a defendant and the race of a homicide victim affect outcomes. Homicides involving white female victims are 6.5 times more likely to result in an execution than those involving Black male victims, and no white person has been executed in Florida for a homicide involving a Black victim. These facts provided State Attorney Ayala with a host of reasons to determine that pursuing life sentences instead of the death penalty was in the interest of justice in the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Yet, you took the extraordinary step of reassigning a case because of your personal opinion about how justice should be delivered. Numerous counties, 19 states, and 102 countries are able to provide justice without administering the death penalty. There was no “good and sufficient reason” to remove her from the Loyd case. Your decision to interfere with an elected prosecutor’s determination of local priorities is even more serious given the fact that State Attorney Ayala is the first Black State Attorney in Florida history. When 95% of elected prosecutors nationwide are white, State Attorney Ayala’s voice and leadership are important for the future of the criminal justice system. The Florida State Conference of the NAACP is deeply troubled by this unprovoked interference with her proper exercise of prosecutorial discretion. We call on you to immediately rescind your executive order reassigning the Markeith Lloyd case and to leave decisions about the pursuit of the death penalty in the Ninth Judicial Circuit to its duly elected prosecutor.

I would like to speak out for thousands of convicted felons whom are expected to change their actions and way of life yet our rights are stripped from us. How can our voices be heard and changes be expected to happen if we can't be heard? Taking our right to vote away is only trying to confirm that we are nothing, nobody's, and that our opinions and voices are no longer valued, which in turn strips us of our feelings of self worth in turn hindering our process of positive change. We can not be coached to make positive changes and then have our voices be taken from us.

While I don't believe the Trump Administration should be allowed to enact any legislation at this time, I am writing this particularly to stop Trump from signing SJ Res 18 which allows "hunters" to kill hibernating bears, gas wolf pups in their dens and shoot wildlife from planes. This is not hunting; this is murder and in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge -- "refuge" means "safe place." SJ Res 18 does not promote safety in an way. We must not allow this to happen for the sake of the wildlife and the sake of the planet our children will inherit.

U.S. Representative Devin Nunes broke his Constitutional oath by revealing information to the White House which is under Federal Investigation. He made this decision without the knowledge or backing of the House Intelligence Committee. His removal from both chairman of House Intelligence Committee and U.S. Representative for California's 22nd congressional district. He should be then held to an independent investigation to determine the depth of his involvement.

To make our Livingston Counties communities more secure and more just. It is just to pull over and ticket bad drivers, but it does not make our community more secure, nor is it just, to deport them because of that.

If you hear the sound of a gun, you would try to protect yourself from further gun fire. The police are using new technology that uses the sound of gun fire to help protect the citizens. This proposed bill is trying to make it easier for people to buy gun silencers. The current law - which is not infringing on anyone's right to own a gun - makes it very difficult to buy a silencer, and for good reason. If gun silencers were able to be purchased freely, then there's a greater risk of killing innocent lives. Also, a greater use of gun silencers will impede the police from protecting us, especially when there's a mass shooting. A NY Times editorial dated March 24, 2017 titled "Echoes of Gunfire Hurt Tender N.R.A. Ears" explains the insanity of this proposed bill. Please protect your constituents and prevent this bill from passing. Here's a link to this editorial. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/echoes-of-gunfire-hurt-tender-nra-ears.html?_r=0

Because we need to move forward to make sure all Americans can receive the right to healthcare.

After trying for less than 3 weeks to “fix” health care with a draconian bill, the President has given up. His Plan B is to let the ACA explode. This is irresponsible and violates his Oath of Office. If the ACA collapses, it will be because the President is aggressively taking action to undermine it. He issued an Exec Order (13765) in January saying that because he is seeking “prompt repeal” of the ACA, agencies should waive, defer or delay its enforcement. Agencies have: •Refused to enforce the tax penalty on people who don’t buy health insurance. •Destabilized the program by pulling ads to encourage sign ups. •Cut funding where possible. EO 13765 needs to be revoked. Its premise—ACA’s prompt repeal—is no longer valid. More importantly, the Administration needs to enforce and support the ACA. IT IS THE LAW.