New York has approximately 16,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) across the state. However, all of them are required to have a written collaborative agreement with a physician. As the implementation of Obamacare looms in January 2014, NPs are one solution to provide primary care to the influx on new patients into the system. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional schooling, education, and training. Nurse practitioners have nearly a 50 year history of providing high-quality, patient-centered and cost-effective care. Nurse practitioners can be found across all healthcare settings and write prescriptions, make diagnoses, manage chronic conditions, provide well-care and health promotional efforts. NPs will continue to collaborate with all members of the healthcare team as needed. However, the requirement of the written collaborative agreement is a an unnecessary barrier to practice.

Bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in immigration by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and of lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and of lawful permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connection with permanent partnership

Violence with guns has hit an all time high to where even small children are now being victims of mass school shootings. Things need to be done to end this senseless violence, Help change the gun control of the United States!

THE LANDSCAPE AND WASTE FACILITY ON PETER BAKERS PROPERTY

U.S. Representative Peter King, New York, comments on the terrorist attack in Boston: Saying, we need more cameras on U.S. citizens.

Our names are Leyla and Liza and we are 10 years old. If constructed, the Keystone XL pipeline will carry one of the dirtiest fuels, tar sands oil, which emits three times more greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline production. It will cause earth, air and water pollution and destroy the lives of people, animals, and our precious land. The pipeline will travel more than 1,700 miles through farmland and fragile ecosystems. In the last decade we have had over 2,500 oil spills. Our planet needs our help, please stop the worst climate bomb in world history from exploding. Save the earth for our generation.

President Obama's budget includes cutting the chained CPI in Social Security. I would be personally affected by the cut because it would seriously affect my financial situation and maintaining my household.

Need social security to not be reduced along with Medicare Benefits.

In 1970, a medical team at the “U of M” successfully performed surgery on a pair of brothers who both wanted to be women, and the successful surgery garnered substantial newspaper attention in places as far from Minnesota as St. Petersburg, Florida. This information trickled through the media, and even wound up in (misinformed) advice column of Ann Landers.(4) The columnist warned readers of the St. Petersburg Times that University “authorities were not enthusiastic about the results” eight days before the sisters proudly sat for a photo with the same publication.( For some reason the U of Minnesota has stopped doing Gender reassignment surgery

The Senate and the House recently passed bills, by unanimous consent, without any public review (The Senate bill was S.716), to eviscerate the STOCK act of last year which required transparency in financial trading of legislators, legislative staff, and of the executive branch. President Obama signed this bill, ironically enough, on April 15, 2013 (Tax Day). See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/15/statement-press-secretary-s-716

The Home Rule Pilot Program (SB 435) was designed to foster economic growth by providing cities with more freedom to make revenue and spending decisions. This piece of economic legislation was turned into an ultra-conservative campaign against progressive policies when Delegate Patrick Lane inserted a last minute ban on local gun ordinances. As is, the law would repeal all local gun safety measures and prohibit any new ones from being enacted. Governor Tomblin needs to veto this dangerous bill and call for a special session to fix it.

My 16 yr old daughter is being bullied and sexually harrassed at JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL in Jackson, Michigan. Because my daughter did not know the name of the student, and even though the boy was witnessed by a security guard as he cat called and put his arm around her shoulder, the principal has not made any attempt to find out what the security guard saw, nor was an attempt made to identify the name of this boy.. now today, a day after my daughter's Case Manager, and myself had an emergency confrence with the 10th grade principal, Mr. Hillard, Councelor McMillian, and modt of her teachers, nothing had been done to confront the boy, much less dicipline him for bullying and sexual harrassment, which both actions violate Section 504 of the AMA,and students with dicibilities Act, as well as anti-bullying legislation signed into law by Governor Snyder in 2011. My daughter has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, and Severe Depression. She has idiations of commiting suicide, more now then ever before. When I attended the meeting, i was not their to discuss her academic performance so much as how the bullying is out of control, and spilling onto the street when she walks home, the counselor and principal kept pushing blame on my child for her poor academic performance rather then address the issue at hand, -my child being bullied. Today, my daughter was placed.in the very SAME ROOM AS THE BULLY. It was not until my child identified the bully as the unnamed fellow that started sexually harrassing her two weeks ago on her way home from school, did the principal act, by removing her from the class, and spending the rest of the day in the 10th grade office. If the principal had acted faster, by following up with the security guard about what he saw in the hallway, my daughter would never been placed in the wrong room. To date, nothing has been done to dicipline this boy, while my daughter has to live in fear what could happen next..to her, or someone else. Bullies must be confronted, diciplined with stiff penalty(s), and educated on the effects of bullying, and NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET OFF SCOT FREE!!