I cannot support any agreement that is kept secret. The whole Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement should be made public. We have lost too many jobs overseas. Not everyone has a college degree and we need manufacturing jobs to fulfill that need. Plus, we can't even enforce laws to protect our environment, we definitely won't be able to control countries like China. I think what really amazes me is that while people complain about unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid we are ignoring the ways to eliminate the need for them. Birth control, education, and jobs. Our teachers, in Pagosa Springs, Colorado are being asked to take another cut in their salary. My husband was a teacher for 44 years, I was an Instructional Aide for children with special needs. I would not encourage anyone to go into teaching. People don't have any idea what teacher do, what they are responsible for and the hours they put in. We need to take care of our future generations.

My son will not have the chance to go to Pre-K for free because we are told that we make too much money. I am a social worker and his father is a satellite technician. We are not rich and just one pay check behind like most Americans. My son is 2 years old as of this past January and will not be able to start free public school until he is 5. We will be paying for a private school for almost 2 years before my son is able to start Kindergarten. That's an average of $10,000 per year. Why is it that my son is not able to go to public school? I feel like we are being punished for making the mere $40,000 a year that I make (his father and I are not married yet so this is based off of one income) Hope this makes sense. Thanks.

I have family members and friends who have combat related post-traumatic stress disorder. I have other friends whose family members died by suicide after experiencing combat.

Both of my children were in Lynda DiJulio and Sharon Lupinski's classroom in third grade at Brandywine Springs School and thrived in their team-taught classroom environment. After 28 years of continually strengthening and building their curriculum together, DiJulio and Lupinski have been told they cannot co-teach in the 2015-2016 school year. Taking away this classroom opportunity would strip BSS of one of its greatest assets.

It is important because people that do know about it are not taking action against children working in sweatshops. Our school group wants to raise awareness about these unfair working conditions. The children are working 18 hours a day, for little pay, that goes back to their families. They are working in poor conditions, being abused and receive little to no education.

Water is too precious and scarce to waste. Using drinking water to extract oil does not make any sense. We can not afford to waste a drop on non-essentials. This is an emergency and an emergency response is appropriate. Moratorium on water use for oil extraction insures we are securing the safety, health and well- being of essential water for the benefit of the community to the best of our ability. It is the right thing to do.

This is about the freedom to choose how to move safely through our community. This project will make it possible to more safely ride your bike and walk along Quartz Hill Road from the top of the hill to Market Street and promote walking and biking from the neighborhoods to Caldwell Park and the Sacramento River Trail.

This is about the freedom to choose how to move safely through our community. Diestelhorst to Downtown is about connecting the miles of River Trail and our neighborhoods along it with downtown. If you have ever tried to get downtown walking or biking you know what I am talking about. This project will bring the River Trail experience all the way to California street.

Because this is one of the most important issues going on in our country currently. Past trade agreements have cost our country millions of good, high paying jobs that have now been sent overseas.

Arizona Republicans are ripping away the meager benefits nearly 1 million people rely on to survive. Wisconsin Republicans are mandating drug testing and outlawing junk food. A bill in Missouri would ban food stamp users from buying seafood. Junk food bans and mandatory drug testing have popped up across the nation. Kansas might be the worst, with Republicans there pushing unprecedented restrictions on where and how people who receive public help can spend it. These efforts would be silly if they weren't so mean-spirited. A USDA survey found that people who receive nutrition assistance have a very similar diet to those who don't, and it doesn't include frequent luxury food. Most of the concern about fraud and abuse can be traced back to one misleading FOX News report. States that actually test for drug use found that those who receive public assistance use drugs at a lower rate than the rest of the population. This is nothing more than cruel, racially-tinged demagoguery. It is an attempt to demean the poor in order to excuse the failure of conservative economics to bring about shared prosperity. Perhaps worst of all, it is hypocritical: The biggest financial institutions, the so-called "too big to fail" banks officially designated for more oversight by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, receive an implicit subsidy of as much as $102 billion dollars. If our leaders are going to be mean to people who are able to survive because of public help, they should start with the big banks.

Douglas Hughes represents us-99-percent. We detest money in politics. We detest government serving the corporate interests. We-99-percent also thank Mr. Hughes for bringing the issue of air space security to light. Lax federal oversight is the problem, not Mr. Hughes. Government works for us. We shall not be enslaved to our government. GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. Years of imprisonment for Mr. Hughes for simply exercising our First Amendment Right, The Right to Free Speech, is WRONG. We respectfully ask that you will free DOUGLAS HUGHES -- the people's hero -- now. Thank you.

The roads in this town, Streator, IL, are already damaged and disintegrating. So why would you want kids skating and biking on already cruddy roads that are hard to drive on?? Wouldn't it make more sense to build a skatepark, rather than 20 more softball fields? The skaters and bikers NEED somewhere to go!!! We're tired of having to go to Ottawa just to ride my board or bike. It's about time this place got serious.