The family and friends of this young man have been effected due to extended length of sentence.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is all about fairness for working families. It's the watchdog against predatory and abusive practices by financial institutions. And believe you me, we need a strong watchdog, as we've seen all too clearly. Richard Cordray is eminently qualified for this job. In Ohio, and now on a national level, he has fought fraud and discriminatory practices, taking on the big banks and winning for consumers and taxpayers. Let's tell Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans to move quickly to an up-or-down vote of President Obama's nominee, Richard Cordray, as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Most Citizens make far less than $100,000 a year. No govermental worker of any stripe should earn more via overtime or direct salary than that amount. Honor and Duty should prevail over the absurd income levels of many in the higher reaches of government make as well as those who reach this amount through excessive overtime.

Stop Republicans from rigging the vote.

Yes in the southern USA HIV/AIDS services are not getting funded enough to cover the new wave of HIV concentration. I myself get turned down for services in GEORGIA even though I've survived 30 yrs.' with HIV. Lets balance the funding by giving more to help with the deep south areas. Its like HIV'S last hiding place. LETS.. WIPE IT OUT! By giving the tools we need to services provider to fight it. Thank you.

Oversight: Oversight of gerrymandering, utilities, government contractors and contracts, casinos, Sandy payouts.

A prosecutor is literally making a federal case out of Lt. Dan Choi using a common, peaceful tactic to protest discrimination. Free speech ought to stay free.

There is over 100 million tons of debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami in a floating "continent" twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean. This debris has already begun washing up in Hawaii as well as the mainland and will have a disastrous effect on marine life once it arrives in force. This needs to be cleaned up before it arrives!

We do not want our legislators changing Alaska's constitution. These changes will HURT RURAL ALASKA'S SCHOOLS! Members of our legislature, through SJR 9, want to change Alaska's constitution so that it allows private and religious schools, through a voucher system, to have access to Alaska's pool of public education funds. If the constitutional changes do go through this will require public schools to share this money with schools that have little or no oversight. Our rural school families have very few if any school choices outside of our public schools. Small village school families have no choices. Vouchers will not help them! Our pioneer Alaskan trailblazers, in their infinite wisdom, saw the need to keep public school money only for public schools so we can keep our schools current, safe, and a great place to learn and work throughout the whole state.

Permit election day voter registration in the state of Colorado. Colorado boasts one of the best voter turnouts in the country, but our Democracy is not complete without everyone participating. Election day voter registration will ease the process of voting.

As a woman who lost her FT bookseller job with Borders Books after 8 years in June 2011, and who has not been able to find a replacement job with benefits, I have called my county housing authority to be told there are no open wait lists, and even if the wait lists opened, I am not allowed to apply until I am 62 and then the average wait is 6 to 7 years. The wait lists have been closed for at least two years, none are expected to open and so women of my generation are aging in CA with no way to even get on the wait lists for low income Senior Housing. I cannot be the only boomer woman in CA that this is happening to. So Senior Housing for boomer women needs to be built in CA counties. Counties need to assess the extent of the need now and in the coming ten years and build Senior Housing to handle this influx of extremely low income boomer women who are high risk for homelessness. I never married, never had kids, am a college graduate, always worked since age 18, never was arrested, no addictions or illnesses, always able and willing to work, and always underpaid. Now approaching 62, without health care, waiting for ACA ObamaCare expansion to start, I am working part-time and 100% of what I earn is going toward rent which is still considered below market rate for a one bedroom apt. in Marin County where I have lived almost half of my life. I do not want to move and why should I have to? Senior Housing for boomer women is desperately needed to be built in Marin, and Marin County cannot be the only County in CA where there is severe need of affordable housing for childless single women on extremely low incomes. I am not going to be able to collect Soc Sec until I am 70 because I will get 76% more by waiting from age 62 to age 70 and at 70, I will then, only get $1,300/ month because of a lifetime of being paid so little in the jobs I managed to find. I cannot be the only CA woman in this situation. Boomer women with extremely low incomes are increasing and we need housing to be planned and built quickly all over California. Foreclosed Homes could become shared homes for women like me. There's a critical need and county governments are not facing up to this critical shortage. Something must be done to bridge this gap.

As a woman who lost her FT bookseller job with Borders Books after 8 years in June 2011, and who has not been able to find a replacement job with benefits, I have called my county housing authority to be told there are no open wait lists, and even if the wait lists opened, I am not allowed to apply until I am 62 and then the average wait is 6 to 7 years. The wait lists have been closed for at least two years, none are expected to open and so women of my generation are aging in CA with no way to even get on the wait lists for low income Senior Housing. I cannot be the only boomer woman in CA that this is happening to. So Senior Housing for boomer women needs to be built in CA counties. Counties need to assess the extent of the need now and in the coming ten years and build Senior Housing to handle this influx of extremely low income boomer women who are high risk for homelessness. I never married, never had kids, am a college graduate, always worked since age 18, never was arrested, no addictions or illnesses, always able and willing to work, and always underpaid. Now approaching 62, without health care, waiting for ACA ObamaCare expansion to start, I am working part-time and 100% of what I earn is going toward rent which is still considered below market rate for a one bedroom apt. in Marin County where I have lived almost half of my life. I do not want to move and why should I have to? Senior Housing for boomer women is desperately needed to be built in Marin, and Marin County cannot be the only County in CA where there is severe need of affordable housing for childless single women on extremely low incomes. I am not going to be able to collect Soc Sec until I am 70 because I will get 76% more by waiting from age 62 to age 70 and at 70, I will then, only get $1,300/ month because of a lifetime of being paid so little in the jobs I managed to find. I cannot be the only CA woman in this situation. Boomer women with extremely low incomes are increasing and we need housing to be planned and built quickly all over California. Foreclosed Homes could become shared homes for women like me. There's a critical need and county governments are not facing up to this critical shortage. Something must be done to bridge this gap.