I am angry to see that The least among us are being hurt the most by the sequester cuts. while my 80 year old mother gets her meals on wheels cut all Congress can do is waste money on needless debates, investigations, disrespecting the President, and take vacations from doing nothing. When you call them all you get is a machine. . The sequester cuts should stop. I work hard everyday and sometimes I get a vacation. Why does Congress paid so much while getting so much time off from doing nothing?

The US Treasury should refinance a portion of the existing national debt by issuing a Special Issue Note made available only to US citizens with a social security number. The note should carry a minimum coupon of 3% (the current cost of 30yr UST bonds) and should be redeemable any time at 100% of the face amount of the note thereby eliminating the duration and interest rate sensitivity risks of owning long term bonds. The special issue note should be administered through TreasuryDirect.gov., an existing on-line platform. The purpose of this Special Issue Note is to provide an investment safe haven for the middle class and elderly citizens who have been severely impacted by the disappearance of federally insured bank deposit products. The disappearance of these bank products has been a direct result of the Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing (QE) strategy. These classes of people have depleted savings and implemented household austerity programs for the past five years and can no longer withstand the drain on household wealth caused by the QE program. This Special Issue Note will reduce the financial impact of QE on the middle class and the elderly at very little cost to the US Government.

Every American citizen will be affected by this. People have the right to bear arms but assault weapons and what's the big deal about background checks. Really????

TEACH CHILDREN TO READ BOOKS

The LGBT community is shunned upon, and i feel that should come to a stop. Anyone else.?! Love has no gender, ethnicity, or color.

Deborah Gist’s tenure as Rhode Island commissioner of education has been a disaster for teachers, students and parents. A recent poll of teachers commissioned by the National Education Association of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers found that 85% of teacher do not support Gist. An on-line poll by the Providence Journal showed that 79% of the more than 16,000 respondents opposed renewal of her contract. For these reasons and many more, we call on you to DUMP GIST.

We all know someone who depends upon Social Security benefits whether it's because they've retired or because they are disabled. We also know that in most cases, the income they receive doesn't cover all of the costs of day to day living. We must allow increases in these benefits to be based upon the most reasonable index and chained CPI is not that.

Citizens lobbying for urban chicken keeping.

I would like for you to have the dental department of your health system of the State of New York, too fix the mess that they have preformed in my mouth. When they should have just done an simple implant. Now my mouth looks like it was kicked by a southern mule and they're countenance denial from Dr. Gene Burgen, and the entire staff at his two hospitals', too Northport, Bronx, Veterans' Affairs Medical Centers, too fix all the of what they have done..

This petition is based on the extraordinary lengths that Senator Cruz will go to to advance his radical right-wing agenda. Many members of Congress understand that there are certain steps that need to be taken to create a bill that will bring closure to this issue facing this country. He does not favor any path to citizenship for undocumented workers, and now, to hedge his bets against approval of a bill, wishes to restrict implementation of any law to the completion of the fence and wants to prohibit any assistance to "amnestied illegals" should such a law go into effect.

Skype meetings, family, etc for one month instead of flying. The airlines have going crazy and will continue to nickel and dime passengers as long as we are willing to pay for everything including bags, water, seats by windows, isle seats, WHATEVER. Stop the madness for one month. The airlines will get the message.

What’s your petition about? Have you been personally affected by the issue?