Perjury is a crime and Clapper is not above the law. This serious crime must be acted upon by this administration if we are not to allow total mockery of the rule of law.

The new Staars test is leaving our children behind from grades 3-12. Our motto was once no child should be left behind. In Texas more than 50% of students from 3-12 grade failed half or all of this test. Schools all over the world are full this summer for retaking of the test. Our children are being left behind, we as parents must stand up and do something before its too late.

Just read your example . Dont be HYPOCRITES. Hard working tax dollars can be spent here where it should be spent instead of a foreign country that calls us their enemy,Eygpt A piece of the 1.2 BILLION ,Im sure there is so much more money sent we dont know about , could help pay down some bills here instead of raising taxes higher to fund them over there .

Please, Governor Cuomo, don't try to raise money from he Paul Simon concert. it offends me. I have always held you in high regard. Nona Young New Portland, ME 04961

Please, Governor Cuomo, don't try to raise money from he Paul Simon concert. it offends me. I have always held you in high regard. Nona Young New Portland, ME 04961

Cell towers are dangerous! They can cause cancer to those living around them and are responsible for more bird deaths EACH YEAR than the entire Exxon-Valdez oil spill! Please help us keep an unnecessary cell tower out of our neighborhood and away from the Appalachian Trail! Last year, Berks County PA requested relief from the Bethel Township's local zoning rules to erect a 255 ft emergency communications tower. Usually this would not have been a big issue BUT unfortunately: + this tower would be placed in the very center of a thriving residential community, + is a 5 minute walk from the Appalachian Trail, + is atop the Kittatinny Ridge- the most important endangered migratory bird pathway in the eastern United States. After eight months of testimony, where it was revealed that there is a perfectly good tower already in the area which could hold ALL of the necessary equipment (with room left over), the zoning officers decided that this tower was just too big and not justified. Instead of then working with the American Tower Corporation, who have offered their services, the Berks County Commissioners decided that they would not collocate on the existing tower. Instead, last month, all three Berks County Commissioners, Brian Gottschall (head of emergency management), and all their lawyers descended unannounced on our local Bethel Township Supervisors monthly meeting and berated them for TWO hours. They threatened that if we do not give them what they want, they will exclude Bethel Township's citizens from the County's emergency system- putting thousands of lives at risk! Finally our supervisors capitulated and have drawn up a Tower-By--Right clause which will nullify the zoning boards decision. This clause will allow our Environmental Protected District to be permanently rubber stamped for future towers!! They will vote on this proposal this Monday, June 17. Their decision will be final. Please! Help us stand with our local boards who do NOT want to do this, but are being strong-armed by the county. Tell Berks county to use the existing tower, abide by the legal ruling- and save our community, Trail, and endangered birds! Thank you!!

Disturbingly, the Obama administration has criminally prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all other past administrations combined. The tactic of criminalizing the messenger is timeless, however. For decades, truth-tellers have risked not only their careers but their reputations and freedom to disclose abuses of power that betray the public trust. Government abuse of power is peaking. Thanks to whistleblowers we know that Big Brother has moved into every American’s smart phone and computer. Now more than ever these whistleblowers need your support, and we need theirs. Demand that Congress pass legislation banning retaliatory criminal investigations and prosecutions against whistleblowers! Ironically, while criminal prosecutions are at record highs, the Obama administration has demonstrated unsurpassed leadership in whistleblower protection against job-related retaliation – as demonstrated by passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) last Congress. The point of whistleblower laws such as the WPEA is to encourage employees to report waste, fraud, abuse and substantial threats to public health and safety. Unfortunately, as seen in the recent documentary War on Whistleblowers by Brave New Foundation, criminal prosecutions create a far greater chilling effect than merely demoting or firing a whistleblower. Tell Congress: It should not be legal to prosecute whistleblowers because of activities for which it is illegal to fire them! Whistleblowers who change the course of history are frequently criminalized in the process, even when they act lawfully, only disclosing unclassified information. Thanks to their courage, we know that the government has engaged in: - Extensive domestic surveillance, allowing big brother to tap into your phone lines and email accounts; - Gross misspending (in the billions!) to conduct illegal domestic spying, employing taxpayer dollars to target whistleblowers and media outlets such as the Associated Press; - Torture of prisoners of the "War on Terror” under official U.S. government policy; - Systemic race and gender discrimination within the Department of Energy; - The cancellation of U.S. air marshals on flights during a confirmed overseas terrorist hijacking more ambitious than the 9/11 attacks. Whistleblowers should be rewarded – not faced with jail time – for alerting the public to such threats. Congress must respond to the disturbing abuse of power by the Obama administration. Otherwise, it is the public that loses. Tell your elected leaders today: Ban the criminalization of whistleblowers!

For more than 8 million Floridians, the harsh reality of sequestration is about to hit home. As a direct result of sequester cuts — the across-the-board federal budget cuts that Congress enacted in March — the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is being forced to close offices throughout the country, and they have zeroed in on Tampa and Orlando. This state has the number one foreclosure rate in the nation, with the Tampa Bay area consistently ranking in the top 10 for the highest rates of foreclosures in the country. As Florida has barely begun to recover from the housing crisis, it’s astonishing that the Tampa field office would be put on the chopping block. Not only does it serve the second-largest number of people out of all four of Florida’s offices, but it also serves one of the largest populations in comparison to HUD field offices across the country. A report released last year by the Continuum of Care, led by the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County, indicted that Tampa has one of the nation’s highest populations of homeless families with children. HUD brought together eight committees made up of stakeholders, community leaders, and government officials to help address this problem. This is an office that services approximately one-third of Florida’s population. But closing this office will leave Central and Central West Florida citizens, as well as agencies that depend on the local HUD field office and its most valuable assistance and resources, in the dark. We may be able to save the Tampa office, but quick fixes will only work for so long and for some programs. It’s time for our lawmakers on Capitol Hill to act responsibly and pass a fair and responsible long-term budget plan so that communities such as Tampa are able to keep these much-needed resources. HUD should unquestionably remove the Tampa field office from its closure plan or risk seriously jeopardizing the health and welfare of citizens in this region. Help us save the Central West Florida HUD office by signing this petition and asking at least 10 others to join in this campaign for fairness to the citizens of our state.

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World peace I have never been working on this issue before, I work as regrested nurse in Sweden. To create a world without nuclear weapons. The countries who suggest other countries to lay down there nueclear weapons, have to have systems that stick to all ethical and high moral , the principles from old times. All systems should by my opinion follow the norms. They doesnt do that´today. Today "wistleblowers" like Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden is shut down becaurse they point on the systems who is failing.They did not do anything more than used there courage to put the light on failures the system done.To make them to the problems is wrong way. If the world shall have a change, all countries need to admit the omission and make a change so the other countries can se with trust on the vestworld and understand there is a good intention behind the messages. How should it be possible to get a solution fast as the situation demands? To accapt that people in the system did thing's as was not so good for the human race.Instead of trying to hide it. There is always a caurse for everything and we are all under some kind of influence, so the rest of the world have to learn to forgive people that did wrong. We have to create a 0-leavel for blame in the same time clean all systems to the better and work with the principals as we know from oldtimes. Sorry for my broken enghish and thank you for reading. Have a nice day all of you and thank you for working for a better planet.

In honor of the work and ministry of the late Bishop John Vincent Jr, and the many of dedicated years of faithful service and contributions to the greater Tulsa community and surrounding areas, we are requesting the re-naming of the street "Fairview" on the corner of 570 NORTH Denver/Fairview in his honor, thus preserving his incredible legacy. Therefore we humbly submit this petition and thank you in advance for your willingness to acknowledge our request.

Lifetime should not be showing a film about this murder until the entire trial including the penalty phase is completed. It will possibly taint the new jury for the penalty phase and it is disrespectful to the Alexander family to show it before justice has been completely served