While America has dropped thousands of bombs, deployed 3,500 troops, and spent billions of dollars in our latest war in Iraq and Syria, Congress has failed to perform its basic constitutional responsibility to debate and vote on the war. Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA), Walter Jones (R-NC), and Barbara Lee (D-CA) are standing up to demand that Congress do its job. Invoking a key provision of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, they have introduced a privileged resolution, H.Con.Res.55, which would force the House of Representatives to debate and vote on the war. If Congress continues to shirk its constitutional duty to debate and vote on the war, the McGovern-Jones-Lee Resolution would bring our troops home. However one feels about the latest war in the Middle East, we should all agree that it is long past time for Congress to do its constitutional duty and debate and vote on the war. Urge your representative to support McGovern, Jones, and Lee in opposing endless and unauthorized war by signing our petition.

On June 19 in Tallahassee, the Acquisition and Restoration Council will meet to consider this issue. Your help is needed to secure the purchase of Gilchrist Blue Springs by the state in order to insure its preservation and protection for the enjoyment of all citizens

On the night of Monday June 15, The Hill reported: [1] "House GOP leaders are punting on voting again on President Obama's trade agenda, possibly until the end of July. After Friday's failed vote to pass aid for workers displaced by trade deals, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) set up a process allowing the House to conduct a do-over of the vote by Tuesday. But Obama and GOP leadership aren't yet in a position where TAA is any more likely to pass. So the House Rules Committee on Monday night attached a provision to a "rule" governing parameters for debate on the intelligence authorization bill that extends the possibility for the chamber to vote on TAA again to July 30." Pro-fast track forces in the House are admitting that they are defeated for now. Thank the House for defeating fast track on Friday by signing our petition. References: 1. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/245070-house-gop-punts-on-trade

I am a homeowner in a flood zone. A flood in 1997 came to our neighborhood, and cost the area $40 million. Only pathetic corrective measures have made, AND a big El Nino event this winter may bring a worse flood. I want my very expensive insurance to work!

The moral authority of and respect for the Pope is a gamechanger on an issue like this.

Our infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes. I, personally, find it very hard to get around because of serious neck and back issues. Riding on these terrible roads is hazardous for me. Investing in infrastructure would help this country economically on many levels.

Send a strong signal that we are serious about our money and our future.

While travelling I have had to purchase additional luggage because of contrived weight limitations. The additional expense caused unexpected debt and overshadowed a much needed vacation.

Corporations are currently being treated as citizens - with all of the rights but none of the responsibility. This allows corporations to have undue power and has turned our Democratic Republic into a Corporatist Oligarchy. Let's make this THE ISSUE of the 2016 presidential election!

"Call my mama, oh God!" 15-year-old Dajerria Becton cried, as Eric Casebolt, an adult male police officer, forcefully swung her by her arm to the ground. "On your face!" he ordered, slamming her head into the grass face-first. He then pinned her to the ground with his knees—a child, who was crying for her mother. Watching the video of what happened at an end-of-the-year school pool party in McKinney, Texas, and hearing a young teen calling out for her mother to ease her fear and help her be safe, what mother's heart could take it? And Dajerria was not the only incident that day. Officer Casebolt singled out many other black teens for abuse, violently arresting, verbally assaulting and physically attacking a number of African-American young people, and even drawing his gun on teens who tried to intervene on Dajerria’s behalf. A white teen attending the party, who easily videotaped the attack, observed, “Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic... [The cop] didn’t even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible.” In an interview, the teen further added, "He [Casebolt] skips over me and tells all my African American friends to go sit down." Officer Casebolt's actions reflect a deeply discriminatory and abusive culture of policing within McKinney law enforcement. Officer Casebolt has resigned, but it's not enough. He, as well as the other officers present that day who stood by and allowed this police violence to take place, must be held accountable.

I am starting this petition because I am sick and tired of politicians not listening to their constituents, politicians going AGAINST our constitution,

We need all of your signatures, we are trying to have 1500+ to take and present to the School Board. All in honor of a Good man and Great Coach. Where his legacy and name will always be remembered at each and every Starkville High Football game and Track Meet. Where generations will know and understand who Coach Hudson was and meant to the City Of Starkville, Thank You...! Believe me, every name matters.