Our Public Housing is at risk, our communities are unaware of the decisions that are being made about our homes. There is funding available that has not been used to aid NYCHA. Affordable public housing should be a top priority in New York City.

Consult suicidology.org and afps.org. I have had thoughts of killing myself which, fortunately, I got out of by myself. But what if someone doesn't?

We have a fat-cat Congress refusing to handle the business of the people. When they decided to cut spending to much that benefits every American and would help grow the economy, rather than raise taxes on the wealthiest one percent, they should have been the first to lose their inflated salaries, their pensions, their perks. They should not have the right to vote their own salaries or benefits, and their actions should impact them right along with everyone else.

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