The Pro Football Writers of America say that Lynch should be forced to speak so us fans can have access to him. As a member of the 12th Man, we don't need to hear from Lynch if he doesn't want to speak. Let's show the PFWA what we really think about the lack of participation by our beloved running back, Marshawn Lynch. Go Hawks!

Introduced in November, the WHPA currently has 98 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and 33 co-sponsors in the Senate. My goal is to get every Democrat, and enough Republicans to guarantee passage, to sign on as cosponsors, with your help. ps. you may contact me directly via the link (my name in red text) under the title of this petition.

I am seeking justice for my baby's saharah elise love weatherspoon death!! she did not deserve to be treated like she was. my daughter was suppose to be protected!

When I was 8 years old, because my father was convicted of a sex crime with 1 victim for events allegedly occurring 25 years earlier, for which my father served 22 months, and for which he was awarded a Certificate of Rehabilitation 10 years earlier than 2007, 1 year before I was even born in 1998, the government for the first time began widely publicly identifying my father as a sex offender through pamphlet mailings. This action destroyed my childhood, as the government was fully aware it would, and from the age of 8 thru 14 when I fled the country with my family, I suffered severe emotional abuse from such government actions. Huge numbers of other children of sex offenders are still going through the extreme emotional abuse I was put through, destroying their childhoods. This is not even counting the ~22,000 minors convicted every year of sex offenses, some of whom are as young as 7 years old, some convicted for offenses like playing doctor. Some logical and rational reasoning needs to be applied to this.

The Voting Rights Act is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation Congress has ever passed. Last year's Supreme Court decision weakened critical provisions of it. Right now, Congress can restore those protections by passing this important bill. Rep. Serrano should support this effort by cosponsoring and fighting for a strong bill.

Oil and gas drilling near the Prospect Ridge Academy, a local elementary school, has been proposed and approved by our local City Council. The only way to prevent it from happening is to work around them - through amendment of our city's home-rule charter.

GMOs aren’t without risk – some are designed for increased pesticides, which have been linked to serious health and environmental effects. And they usually don’t undergo safety testing before being brought to market. Consumers have a right to know what is in their food so we are asking Publix to please label store-brand products for GMO ingredients.

Our hearts break every time we think about Zina Daniel’s murder. She was working at the Azana Spa when her estranged, abusive husband walked in and shot seven people, killing Zina and two others. What makes it so hard to accept is that Zina had a restraining order against her murderer -- a simple background check would have blocked him from buying the gun that killed her. But, in Wisconsin, background checks aren’t the law -- they’re optional. All anyone has to do to avoid one is buy from a “private seller” at a gun show, some back alley, or even online. And that’s exactly what happened. Zina’s murderer got his gun through Armslist.com just one day before he killed her. This private sale loophole allows just about anyone to sell a gun with no background check, no identification, and no questions asked. It is time for the Wisconsin legislature to listen to WI citizens, instead of the extremist pro gun lobby from Washington.

I live 3 miles away from where these floods occurred in SE Travis County/Austin , Texas. I was not personally affected, however, these are my neighbors, fellow Texans and United States Citizens. I am asking on their behalf.

Five years ago this month, I stood next to President Barack Obama while he signed his first bill into law--my law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. And now, I'm in Washington, D.C., again--not only to celebrate the law's passage, but also to remind the President that his work is not done. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was an important first step in our fight for pay equity, but it was just that--a first step. While the Ledbetter law righted the wrong-headed decision the Supreme Court made in my case, we need an executive order from the President to give employees and employers the concrete tools they need to make real progress in closing the gender pay gap. Please join me in urging President Obama to make 2014 the year for progress on equal pay by signing an executive order banning federal contractors from retaliating against workers who ask about pay discrepancies--a critical first step.

We have a right to make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about the food we eat. Yet it's usually impossible to know whether our food contains GMOs. We can't just wait for Massachusetts to pass a GMO labeling bill, so in the meantime we need Stop & Shop to take the lead and start labeling their store-brand products that contain GMOs. Sign this petition to the head of Stop & Shop and ask him as a customer to label GMOs in store-brand products.

To counteract legislation in Florida that restricts access to the voting booth. It's un-american, and unethical to try to win elections by making it more difficult to vote. In person voter fraud is a big lie and legislators know it. They have only one purpose with these laws and that is to win elections by rigging the system.