With the coverage of other certain parties being allowed we feel that the retirees should be offered the same privileges and the state retirees being that they get benefits for life. The county employees meanwhile lose their benefits at age 65. While the families and the other certain parties just added by congress and state making it legal for them to be counted as family qualify for full benefits as married partners etc. So at least count us as the same as State employees and allow us to draw insurance benefits for lifetime or at a family rate.Hard to live on widows pension.Paid into same system. Their family draws benefits for life so should the paying retirees of county who paid.

Calling for an Amendment to the Constitution to repeal campaign Financial Laws for Candidates running for office. By calling for an Amendment, it would allow a vote by the American people for ratification of this Amendment. Our entire Government is so dysfunctional that nothing will ever change until this law is put into affect. Personally, I was affected by this from the Senator of my state, Roy Blunt. He received a million plus from the NRA for his NO vote on background checks and was lied to by his staff when I questioned them about calls coming in from constituents, I was told majority of constituents agreed with his position, REALLY? The buying of votes in our government needs to stop! More importantly, the American people will have a vote.

There is a difference between the way a bank's credit is handle, and forgiven, and the way a consumer's credit is handled and forgiven. A company can screw up your credit rating by making stupid mistakes, and it may take years, to straighten these mistakes and errors out, and sometime never. Simply because, someone somewhere, did not present the proper billing to the proper insurance company. These laws should be revisited and revamped to protect the consumer, rather than punish,for some business mistake.

Freshwater wetlands are critical in purifying water, providing wildlife habitats, preventing flooding, erosion, and storm damage, and reversing the effects of global warming. ABD Wantage, Inc., has proposed building a housing development throughout an area of beautiful native forest and wetlands in Wantage, NJ. They have already been seen violating the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act and are up for a renewal of their wetlands permit and building approval by the town of Wantage.

The main problem with the recent "IRS Scandal" is not so much that conservative groups were "targeted" (only 25% of the scruitinized groups had TEA Party or Patriot in the name) it is that the IRS has become complicit with organizations that should be 527's filing as 501(c)(4)'s.

Many homeowners who oppose hydrofracking will, nonetheless, be required to have it done on their property. This is a violation of basic property rights, but was made legal in New York State with Article 23, as a benefit to the oil and gas industry. It gives these industries the power of eminent domain, usually reserved for the government, so that they can maximize the amount of land for drilling. With this law in place, unwilling landowners are put at risk for serious health problems due to air pollution and water contamination on their property. They may even be compelled to defend lawsuits resulting from unwanted drilling activities of their neighbors. Moreover, the landowner’s mortgage could be in technical default of their lending provisions. Reluctance of financial institutions to lend money on these properties has caused difficulty in selling or refinancing.

Veterans should have a answer within a reasonable time which is 120 days.

For almost two hundred years, the Swiss Confederation has operated as a direct democracy. The people have the power to put any issue up for a nationwide referendum or challenge any law passed by parliament. We believe that the American people should have this right as well. Congress is drowning in a quagmire of corruption and constantly caddying to the interests of the corporate and political elite. By giving the power of democracy directly to the people we can overcome these challenges and move America into a new prosperous age.

If a girl is old enough to get pregnant, she is old enough to use this emergency contraceptive. You do not have the right to impose your beliefs on others. There is no medical reason to support the restriction of access to anyone of any age. Unless you can show a very good reason for this restriction, please step out of the way of something women have the right to decide for themselves, even 12 yr old's.

My community has suffered through one dry season after another while in other parts of the country there are floods and heavy snows. Our government leaders should be trying to solve the problems brought on by the drought by using technology at hand.

Humane iimmigration reform. I am friends with many aspiring Americans and observe daily how much they have to offer the US. It makes economic sense because it costs $23,000 to deport each person.

This is the ONE WORLD ORDER--- multinational corporate WORLD- power grab currently being negotiated, in secret, --for fast-tracking through Congress before the American people catch on to it. This will result in loss of power of individual countries to regulate corporations, protect the environment, food safety, the social safety net, and workers' rights.