To ensure lawmakers share the pain they inflict upon their constituents in the hope that they'll think twice before doing so in the future.

Incentivize Congress to compromise to pass budgets on time and save money while helping our elected officials better relate to the daily stresses of their constituents.

We the people don't control anything anymore: not our banks, not our privacy, not our food systems, not our education. This is the example of "democracy" that we're setting for the world to follow. Join me in petitioning Congress to take up a bill that enables the people who elected them to recall wayward Congressmen and hold them accountable to the job they were elected to do.

To recall Senator Ted Cruz for dereliction of duty as an elected official.

They fuss and argue about anything that helps the middle class and the masses. They mismanage funds, push their dirt under the rug and they all deserve to make minimum wages and get the same healthcare the masses have.

Congress and the POTUS claim they have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

Congress and the POTUS claim They have American's best interests at heart. Please put your money where your mouth is.

The economy of the country is being held hostage by a few Congressmen, who have failed to do their jobs. Let them feel the pinch of their own folly. If they force a shutdown, they receive no salaries until the issue is resolved.

I am a retired pediatrician. I am worried about, and appalled by how many children have been killed and maimed (mentally and physically) by firearms. We have spent and continue to spend untold billions of dollars and other resources protecting ourselves from foreign invaders (Think 9/11) But we have been cowards in the face of the gun lobby, even though we ourselves kill ten times more of our own people yearly,with our own guns than one invader did once.. We are brave enough to defend ourselves against those who threaten us from the outside. Why have we been cowed by the gun lobby? Let's change that. Let's find the courage to stand up to the NRA and their ilk. Let's pass sensible gun laws to protect ourselves from ourselves, because, actually, people do kill people.

John Boehner and the Tea Party anarchists act like taxation and government are inherently bad. They are not – taxation is the price of civilization – and we must have government in order to have an orderly society: roads and schools and Social Security and Medicare and safe vehicles and clean air and clean water and safe food and much more. Instead of holding the country hostage, Boehner and the Tea Party gang need to get a heart transplant. Maybe if they had a heart they’d care about somebody besides themselves and the Koch brothers, the evil duo which provides most of the money for the Tea Party. They don’t care about the unproductive work our government workers had to do to prepare for the shutdown, the money that wasted, or about the inconvenience to millions of Americans. They don’t care if the pay which thousands of competent, dedicated government workers and their families depend on is delayed. They don’t even care if the shutdown derails our fragile economic recovery! Even if John Boehner and the Tea Party gang change their strategy and let the government re-open, they have plans to pull the same kind of shenanigan again in a couple of weeks, using the debt ceiling to once again hold the country hostage. After their Tea Party shutdown and shakedown is over and our government workers go back to work, Washington-watchers believe Boehner and the Tea Party extremists will even refuse to pay the workers for the time they were shut out by the shutdown. They don’t care about anybody but themselves and their selfish funders and, oh, trying to make Obama look bad. Let’s send them a clear message: “You shut the government down, so we will shut you out in the 2014 election. We have a memory like an elephant, and we’ll stampede you.”

In the event of a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed, not knowing if or when they might get paid. They are powerless to change their fates. Members of Congress get paid in the event of a government shutdown — no matter what. Perhaps it's this lack of having skin in the game that encourages some members of Congress to be reckless and cavalier about their childish threats and ultimate misguided decisions to shutdown the government when they can't get their way. Simply put -- if Congressmen and women vote to close down the government, they shouldn't be paid while the government is closed. Members of Congress should have to bear the same responsibility for their decisions as those who are most affected by them.

Stop breaking families apart. Multiple US citizen children are being tortured by having their parents in jail for minimum crimes such as not having a license, or simply not being told they are able to get one in our home state.