Congress jumped into action last week to protect air travelers – such as themselves – from long airport delays caused by sequestration cuts, but they’ve shown no sympathy for the millions of Americans without a frequent flyer card. Air travel and ending the furloughs at the FAA are important, but the haphazard sequestration cuts are hitting the middle class and our most vulnerable the hardest: with seniors denied access to Meals on Wheels, cancer patients denied treatment, low-income children being kicked out of Head Start, and cuts to unemployment insurance for the millions of Americans unable to find work. It's outrageous. No more balancing the budget on the backs of working families. No more paying for tax giveaways that benefit corporations and the super-wealthy with cuts to vital programs. Tell Congress to fix the sequester cuts for all Americans.

Corporations like Amazon aren't required to pay sales tax while Main Street [Mom and Pop] retailers still do. As usual, the big boys get to play by different rules; and the little people lose on this uneven playing field. We need this sales tax revenue in our states, counties and cities!

I belive that if this is passed it would provide alot of people good especially since other states around us have passed and it would also provide a great economic rise for the state of Missouri.

For 75 years, the Fair Labor Standards Act has ensured that hourly employees who work more than 40 hours a week are paid overtime pay. It only makes sense—if workers have to spend more time away from their families and on the job, they deserve to be fairly compensated. But John Boehner and Eric Cantor and others in Congress don’t see it that way. The deceptively named “Working Families Flexibility Act,” recently introduced in Congress, would eliminate overtime pay and instead replace it with “comp time,” which would be allocated days off, at the discretion of the employer. This may look nice at first glance, but what it does is encourage employers to force workers to work longer hours, and pay them less for it. Everyone deserves fair pay for the work they do. This bill would cut wages for millions and just make CEOs and Big Business richer. This bill is moving fast and your representative needs to hear from you now. We need you to send a message now and make sure he or she does the right thing and opposes this bill.

In 2010, unintentional firearm injuries caused the deaths of 606 people. In fact, almost 3,800 people in the U.S died from unintentional shootings from 2005 to 2010, and 1,300 of these victims were under the age of 25. Furthermore, people of all ages are significantly more likely to perish from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearm related deaths compared to the states with the lowest gun levels. A federal government study of unintentional shootings even found that 8% of such shooting deaths resulted from shots fired by children under the age of six. Additionally, the U.S. General Accounting Office has estimated that 31% of unintentional deaths caused by firearms might be prevented by the addition of two devices: a child-proof safety lock (8%) and a loading indicator (23%). Students for Solutions on Gun Safety is a student run advocacy group which aims to put pressure on gun companies in order to incorporate gun safety technology, such as radio frequency identification, child-proof safety locks, and loading indicators, as part of their business strategies, as well as investing in a safer gun technology. We will be utilizing a moderate approach in trying to get gun manufacturers directly involved in the Gun control debate, as well as take part in promoting the future of gun safety in their respectable products. By doing this, we will still be indirectly protecting citizens’ Second Amendment rights. We believe that by installing new technology into firearms, we as a nation can avoid hundreds of deaths a year.

Rhode Island is ranked 8th in the country in regards to it's strict gun laws. From a NRA-ILA study states the fact that 99.8% of legal gun owners never use a gun to commit a crime! So why punish law abiding citizens for the actions of a small minority? That's exactly what these "feel good" bills will do. They would not prevent crime, deter crime, or prevent a tragedy like Newtown!

Introduced in 1949 by the FCC, The Fairness Doctrine required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a way that was honest, equitable and balanced. In 1969 it was upheld by an 8-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Since it was repealed under President Reagan in 1985, we have had a proliferation of partisan talk radio, Fox News and the most partisan government of my lifetime. Reinstating the act could be key to bringing sanity back to our politics.

The Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico will lose virtually all protections in 2015 if Congress doesn't include it in the National Park system as a National Preserve. It's urgent that Congress pass Senate Bill 285 as soon as possible to secure the Preserve's future. New Mexico's economy will benefit and this spectacular place will be protected for all time.

When citizens are innocent victims of violent acts of crime and they are unmarried, expecting mothers or fathers. The Social Security administration makes it very difficult for these children when they are born to receive their parents benefits. The family is already grieving and this makes the process even more difficult and painful for both those that have to be the caregivers of these children who are now left with just one parent or in some cases no parent and the child who may now not have sufficient support during the first 18 years of his/her life. This is an issue many are faced with now that there is a growing epidemic of gun violence among our youth.

Fannie and Freddie are toxic that led to the housing crisis in which they played a role . they must be liquidate.

Imagine this: While walking in the door to your home, the phone rings; on the other end a representative from EPA informs you that there has been a disaster at the BP plant in Whiting, Indiana; something about an explosion and leaking pipes filled with toxic chemicals... The conversation ends with her telling you that you MUST NOT drink the water out of the faucet - the water is contaminated! You turn on the TV and the news is everywhere - DO NOT DRINK OR USE THE WATER OUT OF LAKE MICHIGAN! I wait for this day to come; all that it takes is one problem and millions of people, plants and animals that rely daily on our lake's fresh water, will suffer. The World will suffer. 97% of the World's water is salt water... 3% of the World's water is fresh water... Of this 3% fresh water, less than 1% is actually above ground and of this above ground water roughly 21% of the entire worlds fresh and above ground water lies in the Great Lakes. We must do everything we can to preserve the world's resource! Please act now and say NO MORE TO BP IN LAKE MICHIGAN!!! Water is our most precious resource. We must defend the defenseless and defend ourselves. Big money corporations look out for their pocketbooks, not for the protection of the environment. We are not going to sleep on this issue any longer. We, the people, are waking up NOW! We want British Petroleum (BP) out of Lake Michigan!

When Jason Collins became the first openly gay player in the NBA, he emphasized the importance of his Christian faith in accepting himself and deciding to come out. But within hours, ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard characterized coming out as "openly living in unrepentant sin" and attacked Collins, saying "I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don't think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian." Shockingly, so far ESPN is standing by Broussard, describing his tirade as "a respectful discussion of personal viewpoints." ESPN needs to hear immediately that it's unacceptable to turn Christian faith into a weapon of anti-gay hatred.