Deregulation permitted the communications industry to provide Internet service only to profitable markets, leaving rural areas with no connections. Our children in rural areas such as Glacier Washington cannot complete internet-based homework assignments. Fiber optic cable is very expensive and only Broadband type Internet connections are feasible in areas that are hilly, off the main roads, or in valleys.

If you publish your proposed Budget we voters can read it and send you our advise. Your description of the Budget doesn't tell us what you are really proposing. We voters can read!

The Senate conference has REMOVED the $2 million in funding for the Catskill Mountain Rail Trail, originally allocated in Governor Cuomo's Executive Budget from the Senate version of the budget. Although the $2 million item is still included in the Assembly version of the budget, this significant funding is now in extreme jeopardy. Let the Rail Trail's champions know how much you value their support and urge them to renew it to ensure the future of this project.

As a responsible citizen of Wisconsin, I am required to carry liability insurance to cover adverse consequences of using my automobile on public roads. I feel persons who feel a need to carry a loaded weapon in public should at the very least shoulder financial responsibility for any adverse action they commit with that weapon.

Montana Democratic Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester will be key votes on legislation to fix our broken immigration system this year. We need these Senators to support a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants currently living in the United State without papers. Most of these immigrants have lived in this country for more than a decade and have come to America to seek a better life for their families. They are Americans-in-waiting who are ready to fulfill the requirements of our citizenship process - to study English, pay taxes, maintain a good record and be of good moral character. Instead of focusing only on the border, we need a new approach that is better for families and makes more economic sense.

It affects and protects all our citizens

The fossil fuel industry is determined to move coal from North America to Asia through ports on the west coast. Burning this coal locks in disastrous amounts of global warming and weather disruption around the world. Moving coal through our communities will leave coal dust in the air and on the ground increasing incidence and severity of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Coal is a jobs program for the health care industry and is a disaster for schools and school children near the rail lines. Why does anyone think this is a good idea? The fossil fuel industry will tout jobs and economics and argues that if we don't allow the coal to be moved through our communities, it will go elsewhere and still be burned. The long term environmental stability of the planet hangs in the balance and industry wants to tout jobs that will push the planet over the climate cliff. Communities and states must rise and stop this foolish enterprise. It's time for the Evergreen State to act Green. Governor Inslee in Washington State says the coal trains will not go forward without complete studies and environmental impact statements. Ok, fine, study the issue, but at the end of the studies, these coal trains cannot be allowed to move through the West Coast Ports. The global change to a sustainable energy grid depends on human beings weaning ourselves from fossil fuels. This is how we do it. We say no to fossil fuels. The pressure for energy that builds with an embargo on fossil fuel will power the green energy industry. Global warming is a jobs program. It's time to get to work to stop global warming and build the green energy grid. Let's stop the coal trains and get to work on the green energy grid that will keep our planet stable.

Gun violence is not acceptable. We need safe communities to raise our families.

Bills to decrease, and eventually abolish, the state income tax are currently moving through the Oklahoma House and Oklahoma Senate. (The Oklahoma Tax Commission estimates the loss in revenue under Senate Bill #1571 at $1.4 billion.) If we lose income-tax revenue, either schools and health care will suffer or else sales tax and property tax will go up. Fellow Oklahomans, let's let Governor Fallin and our state legislators know this isn't the way to improve life in our state!

The Senate conference has REMOVED the $2 million in funding for the Catskill Mountain Rail Trail that was originally allocated in Governor Cuomo's Executive Budget from its version of the budget. Although the $2 million item is still included in the Assembly version of the budget, this significant funding is now in extreme jeopardy. And today is our last chance to save it as their discussing the budget right now!

The FL Legislature is considering disbanning developmental education at the college level. Developmental education at the college level opens the door to a college education for many students who otherwise would not have that opportunity. It is my guess that many FL legislators benefited from developmental education, but now they have become elitist and do not wish others to have that same opportunity.

My name is Ramón S. In 2005, my wife Rosana and I purchased our home to raise our three beautiful children. We love our home, and our neighborhood and we want to stay here. Sadly, we’re being forced out of our home and onto the streets because of one man--Ed DeMarco. On Tuesday March 19th, Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency Ed DeMarco is testifying before Congress. Will you help me send him a message on Tuesday that he can’t take my family’s home? For years, we faithfully made our monthly payments until we ran into some bad luck. I lost my job and Rosana had to take a leave of absence to care for her mom who was very ill. By the time we both were able to get back to work, we were behind on our monthly mortgage payments. In his position, DeMarco is the boss of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And no matter how much we tried to negotiate, Freddie Mac refused to any modification of our loan because of Ed DeMarco’s irrational and destructive opposition to principal reduction. Since then, we’ve saved the money to buy back our home with the support of a local non-profit, but Freddie Mac still won’t take our offer. Ed DeMarco is hurting my family and millions of other families and dragging down our country's economic progress. We worked hard to buy this home, and we love our community. Our children deserve better than what Ed DeMarco is doing to them. On Tuesday, we can send the message to Ed DeMarco that he needs to do what's right. Can you join me and tell Ed DeMarco that he can't take my home? We want to be able to pay our mortgage every month and remain in the home and community we love.