We should all care about maintaining a separation of church and state, which benefits religious groups by keeping government out of their internal affairs and benefits each of us personally by preventing us from being forced to subsidize religious beliefs or institutions with which we disagree. Also, if our tax money does not go to religious schools (which are constitutionally protected in their right to discrimination and, for example, to teach children that gays and lesbians are undeserving of equal rights), we will have more money for our public schools (which are controlled by us all and cannot legally discriminate).

Let's be sure that everyone has to share in the cuts coming down the line because of the Sequester. Families and communities across the country are looking at cuts in services or possibly loss of a job, so the least that Congress can do is take a cut in their benefits and salary.

Citizens - demand your Oregon representatives to fully support to SB 754, PERS reform. SB 754 proposes reasonable changes to PERS and our legislators should fully support the passage of the legislation. SB 754 begins by limiting Cost Of Living Adjustments (COLA’s) to the first $2,000 of monthly retirement benefit payments. SB 754 reforms the common practice known as “spiking,” which inflates the final average salaries of soon-to-retire employee incomes. SB 754 removes the income tax reimbursement bonus for PERS retirees who live outside of Oregon and do not pay Oregon income taxes SB 754 redirects the 6% IAP employee payment (currently paid by the employer for 70% of PERS members), to a new account in the PERS fund for each PERS Tier 1 and Tier 2 member. SB 754 adjusts the anomaly of the PERS “Money Match.” The Money Match is an alternative calculation to the Full Formula annuity. The PERS uncontrolled cost increases are damaging local government and service district’s financial base and will over future years start to cripple their ability to serve residents and tax payers. PERS does not add any value to the taxpayers. Call your Oregon State Senators and Representatives and ask them to stop the uncontrolled PERS cost increases by passing SB 754.

This petition is about phasing out all nuclear power in CA, and never allowing any new nuclear power plants to be built. We live in a state with very active earthquake faults. We live in a state where our nuclear power plants are built along a coast that is part of the "ring of fire" and all around the Pacific Coast are major earthquake faults and volcanoes that can trigger tsunamis. We live in an era of terrorism. None of these facts are compatible with nuclear power and for the protection and safety of all life in this region, we should not take the risk with nuclear power.

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!