This bill would create an entirely new, transparent and ungameable set of capital rules for the nation's banks. It requires banks to hold a significant amount of capital in a rainy day fund. In addition: 1) bankers won't be able to manipulate rating agencies; 2) off-balance sheet assets, derivatives and liabilities must be included in stating a bank's assets; 3) Megabanks will be forced to increase their capital or bring down their size. Help Brown & Vitter wage war on the financial machine (lobbyists) to move the bill forward.

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The aim of this petition is the revelation of the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the public and to Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership are on-going closed-door talks between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with countries like Japan and China potentially joining later. 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress, journalists, and civil society are excluded. The agreement would offshore millions of American jobs, free the banksters from oversight, ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy, decrease access to medicine, flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.

Social Security drains the Federal budget. That's a lie. Baby Boomers will drain the fund, if we don't make cuts. That's a lie. Young people don't care, because Social Security won't be there for them anyway. It WILL be, if Congress stops raiding the trust fund.

Several students enjoy the publications currently funded by the ASUN, but the association has limited their ability to solicit advertisements and has now elected to severely cut their backing budgets. This unsustainable strategy will disenfranchise many students and will harm the university's ability to compete. The arts must not be sacrificed in the name of politics--these cuts must be stopped.

Project "Head Start," medical care to the poor, schools, jobs, etc., etc..... Everyone will be impacted by the sequester and will suffer because of it.

Unwillingness of Arizona House Judiciary Chairman Eddie Farnsworth to schedule a hearing for House Bill 2569 which would shine a light on Arizonas growing problem of Human trafficking. By not scheduling a hearing he has dismissed this problem. How do we protect the future of our children?

Enough gun violence

It's time to bring an end to our dollar-based democracy. This nation desperately needs a publicly-financed electoral campaign system, one that completely removes all private contributions,both direct and indirect.

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Lisa L Williams, chairman of the board of SF Gay Pride Parade, is unilaterally denying the parade Bradley Manning as Grand Marshall, and knowingly making propagandist accusations about him to protect the interests of corporate sponsors like Bank of America at the expense of the core values of the parade and the community. For background, see "Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced" on guardian.co.uk

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