I am asking our state representatives and community leaders in Minnesota to allocate more funding for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and programs for homeless families. In Minnesota, the challenge of homelessness for families has grown more striking in recent years. In 2012, The Wilder Research Center found that homeless families and children made up the largest segment of homeless people in Minnesota. Homeless children, in particular, have disproportionate negative academics experiences, including high rates of transferring schools, absenteeism, and grade repetition, among other barriers. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act provides federal funds for states to build awareness of the needs of these children and families who face homelessness. The McKinney-Vento Act also guarantees immediate enrollment to a school of choice and stability for homeless students and families. Yet the reality is not all districts implement this law nor have an active homeless liaison. Also, many districts struggle to pay for the transportation of their students from temporary residences to schools miles away. It is, thus, imperative that every school district is aware and well-educated about this law or the stigma attached with homelessness will continue. Therefore, I ask that we support more funding for the McKinney-Vento Act, more trained liaisons, and more community partnerships to eliminate this stigma for students and their families.

The practice of changing from standard time to daylight savings time has become outdated. The current system extends daylight savings time from the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday of November, meaning standard time is used for approximately only 4 months each year. A recent poll showed 73% of people were in favor of extending daylight savings time year round (http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/florida_considers_extending_da.html). It is time to adopt daylight savings time permanently.

Any politician caught making a false public statement as fact will be fined $100,000. Politicians should be fined for publicly presenting fabricated information as fact, and, as adults, are expected to preface such statements they haven't verified with a disclaimer.

Congress does not really represent the voters

Jobs and the economy

New Yorkers pay the highest cost per student for education in the Country and each year education continues to gets more expensive. The key driver of this out of control spending is the Triborough Amendment. It allows employee contracts to remain in effect until a new contract is negotiated giving unions little incentive to negotiate. School Districts should be allowed to opt out of the Triborough Amendment.

We can change the political landscape and help tho country with the true democracy.

All budget moneys must be addresed for reduction. If the American people must cut back at home, so should our aid recepicants.

Unions are and have been the building block of the middle class, now Governor brownback and the GOP are wanting to tear this down!

Twice a year, we go through resetting all the clocks and re-adjusting our biology. This is a throw back to another time and is grossly inefficient and a waste of effort and money. The extra light in the evening seems to be popular, so just to pick something, let's just stay on DST.

HB125 went from simplifying the paperwork created by HB87 in 2011, to a whole new bill. The current version of HB125 (LC 29 5571S) challenges international passports as valid IDs, blocks DACA recipients from obtaining Driver Licenses, takes Homestead Exemptions away from homeowners, and puts an unnecessary burden in contractors, subcontractors, subsubcontractors and business of Georgia by increasing the mandatory application of E-Verify and IMAGE programs. We urge the Georgia Senate and the Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle TO OPPOSE (VOTE NO when applicable) HB125.

President Obama won re-election decisively in 2012. He ran on a simple budget platform of a balanced approach. It is not balanced to make the most vulnerable Americans pay, in the form of Sequester cuts, for decades of reckless financial policies crafted by Congress. 1. The Bush Administration gave the top 2% wealthiest Americans a “temporary” tax break in 2001. These tax breaks have cost ordinary citizens nearly 1.17 trillion dollars in lost revenue since then. 2. Under President Bush, Congress funded two wars without paying for them. Invading Iraq and Afghanistan cost taxpayers 3.7 trillion dollars and counting. 3. Bailing out the banks has cost upwards of 12.8 Trillion. 4. Allowing corporations to avoid paying any corporate income taxes has cost taxpayers 78.3 billion since 2008 alone. According to the Wall Street Journal 69% of all U.S. corporations pay nothing. These policies helped create the debt and the income inequality that plague this nation today. Individuals like Governor Mitt Romney now pay less percentage-wise in taxes than do their secretaries, and far less in taxes overall than they have ever paid historically. It is unfair, unsustainable and unpatriotic. America needs to invest in our children, our infrastructure and safeguard our social safety net to protect our elder citizens, people with disabilities and those living below the poverty line, many who are working multiple jobs. The deficit, as a % of GDP, has been going steadily down, under President Obama. The calls for austerity now are at best disingenuous. The Sequester cuts are designed to hurt the most vulnerable among us. To allow them to stand is morally reprehensible. If Government needs more money then restore the 1990 tax rates on the top 2%. Americans voted in favor of that. And a simple way to make social security solvent for 75 years would be to remove the cap on income subject to social security tax. Please do the patriotic thing and cosponsor HR900 and cancel the sequester cuts immediately and retroactively. 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/us/politics/poor-face-most-pain-as-automatic-budget-cuts-take-effect.html?pagewanted=all / http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/budget-cuts-sequester-low-income-poor 2: http://costoftaxcuts.com/about/ 3: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/us-usa-war-idUSTRE75S25320110629 4: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-of-the-bank-bailout/3309/ 5: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/09/460519/major-corporations-no-taxes-four-year/?mobile=nc 6: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203733504577026361246836488.html 7: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/income-inequality-is-at-a_n_259516.html 8:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/business/31leonhardt.html?ex=1351569600&en=b1065bf4721795fa&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink / http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/are-taxes-in-the-u-s-high-or-low/ 9: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2012/ted_20120405.htm 10: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/21/15340295-the-fastest-deficit-reduction-in-generations?lite / http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/vp/50965800 5 min : 50 sec 11: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/25/304387/bernie-sanders-introduces-bill-to-lift-the-payroll-tax-cap-ensuring-full-social-security-funding-for-nearly-75-years/