The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to vote on her January 31st. We feel that she does not have the knowledge, the experience or the skills necessary to be the Secretary of Education. Her direction would create segregated schools and increase the gap between people who have money and those who don't. She is not knowledgeable about special education laws and other programs to implement federally required programs.

We must initiate change at the state and local level to ensure that national office holders are not able to move forward without demonstrating these essential qualifications for national service regardless of party affiliation. These changes can be enacted state-by-state, do not require Washington's approval, and will benefit and be supported by people of good will and deep patriotism of all political views.

As White House press secretary, you don't have the power to stop the president from lying, but you should not lie. If you feel you cannot serve as press secretary without lying, you must resign. The false statements you made on January 21 include saying that Mr. Trump had drawn "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration" a statement that photographs and recorded Metro ridership numbers clearly show to be false. If the public cannot trust what the White House press secretary says, our system of government cannot function properly.

As a retired Early Childhood Educator (40 years) I am most concerned about billionaire De Vos' nomination. I can't support someone who has had NO classroom experience. I won't support a billionaire whose life experiences are so far removed from the overwhelming majority of families whose children attend our nation's schools.

As women and their supporters marched in Washington and cities around the world Saturday, Sen. Ben Cardin joined with Senate Democrats to reintroduce the Equal Rights Amendment. “Many Americans would be shocked to find out that the U.S. Constitution still lacks a provision ensuring gender equality,” the Maryland Democrat said in a statement. “Think about that: in 2017, women lack the same constitutional protections as men. This is clearly wrong and needs permanent correction.” The 28th amendment would guarantee that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Devos has little to non experience in running public educational institutions, nor teaching or heading any major organization. She has affirmed allowing guns in schools and agrees that defunding public schools is a possibility. My son attends public school and already suffers from a lack of reseources necessary to obtaining a quality education so that he can compete for acceptance to a quality University. Defunding schools is the same as defunding our children and future. Sign, to tell our State Representative to say no to defunding our future!

“We Must Impeach" We must start a nationwide campaign and chant these words until all of America is chanting them with us. “We Must Impeach” We’ve been reading and watching the speed at which Trump and his Republican Treasonous B*stards or destroying and taking control of this country. Reality has hit us full force right in the face. We must impeach or recall at every level of government, this country/world will never survive even two years. We must start immediately/today on putting together impeachment procedures. Meaning starting petitions, contacting the appropriate people, sending this message through the Internet as fast as possible with social media. Sending a message to these crooked dogs immediately that they must fear us "we the people" because we will and are coming after them NOW! I am not an expert on any of this, but a fast learner and intensely motivated. As we all should be! We need to start this at every level at the same time flooding them all with fear of removal in the chain of command from the bottom to the top. So if you have a local representative or local news paper/TV, even if there from your own party (they say) and are not pulling their weight or is a flunky that stands in the way and slows down the process, get rid of them and replace them with a true progressive. Our democratic process needs a full bottom to top overhaul. We really don’t have a day to wait, literally. So I would suggest at the local level we start putting together focus groups, making contacts with other local to nationwide progressive movements and get this started today. There is some pretty scary sh*t coming on and the longer we wait to take action, the harder it will be to beat them down. I Have already started to look into the process of impeachment and how to proceed going forward. But like anything the larger the number, the stronger the force, the faster we can accomplish this to make it nothing more than a nasty footnote in American history. Hell I truly hope we all come to realize and understand the gravity of what were facing. What’s the chant: “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” “We Must Impeach” THOSE WHO CAN'T BE IMPEACHED, CAN BE RECALLED “We Must Impeach” Bill GM

Trump likely has illegal conflicts of interest but has refused to release the records necessary to prove he does not. The only well to force their release is through legal actions including subpoenas.

President Donald Trump indicated that he was smart in using laws to avoid paying income taxes. We want a level playing field. What's good for our President, is good enough for hard working regular people who pay their taxes and support our government. The demand for a tax holiday will demonstrate the power of the purse and the power of regular people.

Why Investigating Donald Trump? By holding into the least of Trump International Hotel In Washington, D.C., Donald Trump violated the constitution of the United States of America that says government officials and their family members cannot have titles of any properties owned by the United State Government. The Constitutional Violation? Old Post Office Building - a historic property owned by the federal government and leased to the Trump Organization for 60 years. Conflict Of Interest In Question and The Violated Amendment? Jessica Tillipman, a law professor at George Washington University who specializes in government ethics, said the Old Post Office deal poses a massive conflict of interest for a President Trump. "You'd be kidding yourself if you don't think the president of the United States has influence over this," she says. "And he's taken no affirmative steps to separate himself from this conflict of interest. I don't know how this is not a bigger issue. It's crazy." Presidents are not subject to the same ethics rules that govern other executive branch employees, but they often take steps, such as setting up blind trusts or handing over control of their assets, to avoid even an appearance of impropriety. But Trump has not been entirely clear on how he would disentangle himself from his complex corporate holdings if he became president. At one point, he suggested he would place his assets in a blind trust "or something." But he also said this trust would be controlled by his children, who would continue to run his businesses. Blind trusts cannot be controlled by an individual's family members. Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment on how a conflict of interest with the Old Post Office, or any other property, would be handled. Credit: Republic.com. Petition Goal We want to collect 1 million signatures to delivery to congress to investigate this President Donald Trump conflict-of-Interest! Who Started This Petition? Mathieu Louis - He's a graduate of Florida State University and blogs for a Black Celebrity News & Gossip site RatchetQueens.com

We are protesting because Tom Price is an ethically challenged congressman with an elitist perspective on health care. He should not lead the Dept. of Health and Human Services. He has been in the pocket of the Health Care and Pharmaceutical industries for over 10 years.

With Republicans controlling the Presidency and both houses of Congress, reform proposals must be bipartisan to have any hope of success in Washington. Progressive Democrats may not have many Republican allies on some domestic issues, but for cutting the bloated Pentagon-industrial complex, we have potential Republican allies in the House Liberty Caucus. Of 40 Republicans who voted to stop the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, over half were members of the House Liberty Caucus. [1] President Trump has called out Lockheed-Martin's F-35 warplane as a huge rip-off of our tax dollars. But jawboning Lockheed-Martin down on a warplane that doesn't work and we don't need anyway would only result in a slightly smaller ripoff. Congress should protect our tax dollars by shutting down the F-35 taxpayer ripoff immediately. The F-35 may never be ready for combat [2], and Pentagon brass are lying when they say there is no alternative. [3,4,5] The Congressional Budget Office says one modest proposal for killing the F-35 - buying different planes, but not fewer planes - would save taxpayers more than $20 billion over a decade. [6] Proposals to shut down the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which would likely harm renewable energy systems in rural areas, would save $2 billion a year - roughly the same amount. [7] Urge Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders like Keith Ellison and House Liberty Caucus leaders like Justin Amash to work together to kill the F-35 by signing our petition. References: 1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obama-heeding-close-house_b_10516480.html 2. http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2016/f-35-may-never-be-ready-for-combat.html 3. http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2017/f-35-not-too-big-to-fail-twitter-trump-rattles-defense-industry.html 4. http://www.taxpayer.net/library/article/the-unaffordable-f-35-budget-history-and-alternatives 5. http://nsnetwork.org/cms/assets/uploads/2015/08/F-35_FINAL.pdf 6. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/reports/52142-breakout-chapter32.pdf 7. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/315132-dems-blast-trump-plans-for-deep-spending-cuts