President Obama has announced three nominees to fill critical vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, widely regarded as the nation’s second most influential court. We can't let Republicans filibuster and get away with more obstruction! This isn’t just about GOP senators obstructing the D.C. Circuit. It’s about ALL the federal courts, including the Supreme Court. And it’s about confirming executive branch appointees like labor secretary, the head of the EPA, and the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

My husband is affected by the furlow, while the taxpayers pay for the IRS employees (and I am sure others) to take "team building vacations". Think of the total cost of all the Governement Departments that do this.

1) Public funding, equal money 2} No negative campaigning 3} Six weeks of campaigning only

Light Rail is necessary for cutting back on fossil fuel and reducing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. It is an easy form of transportation. We need High Speed Rail to connect our towns and cities. I am a commuter and want to see progress in our infrastructure.

Student debt and Elizabeth Warren's great idea to lower rates to equal what banks pay, until congress can figure it out....(ya know, because they are so busy protecting the wealthy, corporations and banks)!

me increases in funding not CUTS !!!!!!

TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a super--sized NAFTA, TPP is a Free-trade agreement whereby countries give foreign corporations rights and privileges to encourage investment and global business. The corporate powers granted in the TPP can override domestic laws on environmental health and safety, and labor and citizens' rights. Not only that, but multinationals can claim that those domestic laws hamper free trade and sue member countries for millions of dollars. The current TPP talks include 12 Pacific Rim countries: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chili, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, and Japan. Other countries would be allowed to join the TPP at any time. The TPP negotiations are being held in secret between unelected government officials and representatives from more than 600 of the world's most powerful corporations. The implications for labor and human rights are HUGH. The talks are scheduled to finish by October of this year. Meanwhile, negotiators are lobbying Congress to grant "Fast Track" authority for the TPP. That would mean Congress couldn't revise the agreements and could only vote "yes" or "no" to the United States joining the TPP. This is shaping up as a further takeover of public policy that would impact safe food, sustainable jobs, clean water and air, access to life-saving medicines, education, even our very democracy. In March, Citizens Trade campaign organized a letter to Congress signed by 400 U.S. organizations outlining expectations for public involvement and calling for an end to Fast track. It was signed by, among others, the Sierra Club, Doctors Without Borders, Public Citizen, the National Family Farm Coalition, and state trade justice groups such as the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. American citizens would probably oppose the TPP if they knew more about it. Move-On could join the efforts to let people know about the TPP. Visit TPPxBorder.org to find out how the TPP will impact you -- and then join the effort.

According to the Congressional Research Service the Republican majority in the House of Representatives has spent 80 hours of House floor business and nearly $50 million tax payer dollars holding 37 votes to repeal Obama's Health Care Act. They knew beforehand that ALL of these votes would fail but they called for them anyway. This is an obvious and blatant waste of both the taxpayer time and money.

This is an issue of corporations bankrolling government officials to keep workers wages lower than local boards want and take away basic workers rights like paid sick days. If local governments are stripped of control to help workers get basic rights, it means corporations can simply bankroll politicians at the state level and strip workers of basic protections and the right to earn a livable wage, having to surive on government programs to make up the difference

Hackathons are a great way to cultivate innovation and inspire younger generations to learn how to code and solve real-world problems.

Despite polls showing that 79% of Montanans support this bill, Max Baucus voted against it in the Senate this spring. His excuse, as in former years, is to claim that he is voting to protect Montana's traditional outdoors lifestyle-However the majority of Montana Citizens believe that he is merely caving in to the demands of the radicalized National Rifle Association and the gun industry's Shooting Sports Foundation.

Big oil is starting fracking thoughout the agricultural basin of California where much of the nation's food supply is grown. The Haliburton loophole allows them to pump toxic chemicals in which will directly affect the groundwater that irrigates these crops.