Our middle schools and programs across the country are in need of help. Please support this bill which will provide grants to States to ensure that all students in the middle grades are taught an academically rigorous curriculum with effective supports so that students complete the middle grades prepared for success in secondary school and postsecondary endeavors, to improve State and district policies and programs relating to the academic achievement of students in the middle grades, and to develop and implement effective middle grades models for struggling students.

Stop Special interest groups from influencing our government with large amounts of money on issues that only affect them. Most of the lobbyists are influencing our elected officials and convincing them to appoint special interest groups by underhanded bribery. They promise to provide financial support and money even if their requests are not for the good of all.

Start to act responsibly and fairly.

North Koreans who leave their country through China are being sent back to North Korea instead of being allowed to seek asylum or refugee resettlement to a third country.

Congress should be held to a higher standard of ethical conduct not allowed to operate on a lower standard ethical conduct.

For far too long lawmakers in Washington have ignored the will of the “People” they were elected to represent and instead have catered to the whims and demands of corporations, lobbyists and the richest 1%.

Add more officers to the night patrol for USAPD. The violence on campus at night has become an issue to be concerned. Help show USA that you want a change!

In response to the recent shootings some legislators have pointed to increased mental health services as an alternative solution to gun control. Even though the “link” between mental illness and gun violence is not very strong (1), mental illness affects over 1 in 4 Americans (2). Regardless of whether those politicians are correct to link mental illness to gun violence, as a problem affecting over 1 in 4 Americans it deserves Congress’ attention. (1) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2011/understanding-severe-mental-illness.shtml (2) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml

Your local beer distributors could lose their livelihood if bill 790, Liqour Privatization is passed. Please support your local small businesses.

We are deluged by invasive ads & banners on every page we go to! Blocking the site we would like to view. We should inform these advertisers we will not patronize any advertiser that continues to invade our view!

Individuals must be allowed to declare bankruptcy on students loans. Presently, it is nearly impossible to meet the standards for discharge. Courts use different tests to evaluate whether a borrower has shown undue hardship and the “evaluation” based on the Brunner test is too restrictive and unfair to the vast number of students who need this option now, so they may maintain a standard of living presently and in the future. Presently, many students have over $200K in debt with incomes as low as $50K or less. They are merely meeting their living expenses and often unable to save for retirement. These aging individuals are strapped with student loans with no chance of repaying them. The only ones benefiting from this debt are benefiting are the lenders, who continue to add interest upon interest to these ever increasing debts. The lenders know that the federal government will be the one's to pay these student loans off, but at a much higher price. Reduce the years for student loan forgiveness and make all present forgiveness laws proactive. Presently, students can have loans forgiven after 120 payments, but this new law does not help those with loans from the 80s and 90s. The laws need to be proactive and allow older loans to be forgiven due to low wages, etc.

Medical marijuana is legal in several states, including California, while remaining illegal under federal law. As a result, the dispensary where I get my prescribed medication for Trigeminal Neuralgia – a virtually untreatable form of neurolytic pain – was raided by DEA agents on April 16, 2013, one day after the Boston bombings in a shameful waste of federal law enforcement resources needed elsewhere. During the election campaign, President Obama roundly hinted that raiding medical marijuana dispensaries would not be a priority of his administration. Evidently, that wasn't true. All that would be needed to resolve the conflict between federal and state regulations would a reclassification of Marijuana from Schedule One narcotics, such as heroin, to Schedule Two, which recognizes its medical usefulness and allows it to be available by prescription. All that's lacking to make this commonsense reform is the political will.