The richest country on earth should provide health care for all people,we can always find money for wars but the health of this nation should be a top priority but it is not,this is not a republican or democrat thing,this is an American thing,every American deserves health care.

Our Leaders in WV have turned our state over to the destruction caused by oil and gas extraction. Just as our long history with coal mining has proven; little more than lip service has or is being paid to the health and welfare of our citizens or the environment upon which we depend. Every day we face more contamination and potential death due to spills, pipeline ruptures, well explosions, dangerous roads and heavy equipment traffic. Lives have already been lost. We do not need jobs that kill. We need leaders who will focus on developing renewable energy which will guarantee jobs and a cleaner environment for our children well into the future. West Virginia must also be concerned about our neighbors living up wind and down stream from our ever increasing poisonous emissions. West Virginia is our home. We insist that our home be protected.

The Great Mandate demands a re-founding of our nation to become truly democratic and to place People before profit. We can do it. We have no choice as the alternative is unsustainable.

As detailed by a report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Race Riot of 1921, Greenwood after the riot was “a blackened landscape of vacant lots and empty streets, charred timbers and melted metal, ashes and broken dreams. Where the African American commercial district once stood was now a ghost town of crumbling brick store fronts and the burned-out bulks of automobiles. Gone was the Dreamland and the Dixie, gone was the Tulsa Star and the black public library, gone was the Liberty Cafe and Elliott & Hooker’s clothing store, H.L. Byars’ cleaners and Mabel Little’s beauty salon. Gone were literal lifetimes of sweat and hard work, and hard-won rungs on the ladder of the American Dream. Gone, too, were hundreds of homes, and more than a half-dozen African American churches, all torched by the white invaders. Nearly ten-thousand Tulsans, practically the entire black community, was now homeless." As justice was never delivered, H.R. 98 is a bill to reopen the case for redress. Redress to families affected by the Tulsa Race Riot is widely supported by civil rights scholars and academics who study the topic of reparations. To learn more, check out one of the many books that has been written on the riot and its aftermath, including Albert Brophy's Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Scott Ellsworth's Death in a Promised Land, and James S. Hirsch's Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy. There have been at least two documentary films made about the race riot: Before They Die!, and The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story. Check out the Oklahoma Commission report: http://www.okhistory.org/research/forms/freport.pdf. Last but not least, see the text of H.R. 98 here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr98ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr98ih.pdf.

After a two-year-long knock-down drag-out fight, Congress is on the verge of holding their final votes on the Farm Bill. Unfortunately, it looks like the final bill will still include billions of dollars in farm subsidies, most of which will go to Big Ag. Since 1995, 75% of agricultural subsidies have gone to just 4% of farmers, with over 60% not getting a dime. Even worse, $19 billion of those taxpayer subsidies have gone to pay for junk food ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup. Given the nation’s obesity epidemic, it’s hard to imagine a worse way to spend our tax dollars. Some are claiming this new Farm Bill is real reform, but the truth is that most of the improvements are cosmetic. For example, in one creative sleight of hand, the bill eliminates one wasteful subsidy program only to replace it with another subsidy program with a new name that does the same thing. As our nation faces significant cuts to critical programs, it seems impossible to justify handing out billions of dollars to support profitable agribusinesses that don’t need our money and produce crops that get processed into junk food additives.

Scores of sailors from the USS Ronald Reagan and other US ships who responded with humanitarian aid for victims of the 3/11/2011 earthquake and tsunami were irradiated by Fukushima. They are now suffering radiation-related health effects. We ask that Tokyo Electric Power compensate them, and that the governments of Japan and the United States help in this process.

The residents of the Richmond South Shore are concerned about preserving the natural resources in our area. We want the proposed development and expansion of the U.C. Berkeley Campus/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to integrate our concerns into their plan for the development of the Richmond Bay Campus (Richmond Field Station).

Tooele County citizens elected officials Tooele County Commissioners are trying to remove. Let Tooele County Citizens vote on if Auditor and Clerk departments should be merged.

Climate change deniers, from Fox News to Donald Trump, are using the polar vortex to say that cold weather disproves global warming. Unfortunately, the same could happen in the opinion pages of The New York Times. In October 2013, The Los Angeles Times announced that it would refuse to publish climate-denying letters, just as it would any other "factual inaccuracies"--but the New York Times hasn't yet followed suit. Our national conversation is polluted by conspiracy theories, slowing progress for much-needed climate action. That's why it's more important than ever that our most respected newspapers--chief among them, The New York Times--set a precedent and refuse to legitimize climate denial in its letters pages.

All Americans who work are taxed heavily on any overtime pay. If we where allowed to keep all of our extra earnings, then we could become more financially sound. All this taxation may fund the government, but it also does not allow us to invest our hard earned money for ourselves and our families.

This petition is to support the candidacy of Tom Houghton for the 16th Congressional District in Pennsylvania. Joe Pitts is out of touch with the voters of the District. The gobbly-goo letter I got from him to explain why he didn't want the government to re-open was the last straw. He could have at least gotten my name right. It's time for the voters of the 16th District to say "No" to Joe Pitts. Tom Houghton has a deserved reputation as a consensus-builder who can help end the stalemate in Washington.

The Obama Administration is currently negotiating, in secret, a massive so called free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP leaks indicate that this agreement will greatly empower Corporations by virtually eliminating consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy and environmental regulations. In essence this will be a global Corporate coup. In order to get this through congress President Obama will be asking Congress to approve fast track legislation. We urge all our Congressional representatives, Senators and Representatives alike to vote no on fast track legislation.