I am a receiving social security now and it still is not enough to support a modest lifestyle. Medicare part B is still too expensive, so I must continue to work and use employer based health insurance. I have a heart condition and do not know how long I can continue to work.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in Oregon and want to keep it the way it is.

I pay ALL of my bills on time, but I can't pay a bill to someone that I don't know I owe, for a service I may not know was performed, for a reason I am unaware of. Hospitals use third party services all of the time and should be required to inform the patient of such services so that we may pay our bills on time and avoid late fees or even collections! I have experienced this after a hospital stay and am having trouble seeing who all I owe. My insurance doesn't give me the information, but says I have bills that they have paid partially on, and I have still not received any bills. I called the hopsital and they told me they have no information to give me to help me out. I have never been late on any type of payment and I am scared I will have a late bill or possibly even collections. Hospitals should be required to state any third party service they use in your itemized bill or, at the very least, upon patient request.

The Post Office is required by a lame-duck Republican law to prefund 75 years worth of pensions in only 10 years. That's why they are "in the red". This oppressive law should be repealed at once.

Some people very close to me have lived in the shadows for over fifteen years.

Partisan extremists in the General Assembly have just rammed through legislation designed to make it harder for Virginians to vote. The proposed legislation does nothing to combat voter fraud and is nothing more than an attempt to suppress voter turnout. These efforts need to be stopped. Newspapers across the Commonwealth have berated the Republicans’ attack on voting rights as "a throwback to the Jim Crow era," "an impediment to voting that would adversely affect poor, elderly and minority voters," and "a burden on citizens who are homebound, disabled, deployed in the military, away at college or otherwise unable to vote in person." These proposed laws would limit the forms of acceptable voter identification, adding obstacles for many voters. Governor McDonnell himself has acknowledged that the current system works. We should not make it more difficult for people to vote.

On one Friday night in the United States more people are killed by firearms than are killed in a whole year in Japan where guns in the general public are illegal. It is time to catch up with the more modern countries of the world by passing a Constitutional Amendment that would ban firearms in the general public. Law enforcement officers, guards and people serving in the military would be exempt. Let's find out where America really stands on this issue.

The House of Representatives has held President Barack Obama and America hostage for the two terms of his Presidency. They should no-longer be allowed to be paid their salaries or compensation out of the Treasury of the United States: they are not doing their job, therefore the taxpayers should not be responsible for paying their salaries. House Representatives are in-violation of our constitutional rights. The Constitution says: "We the people of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and extablish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The House of Representatives has held President Barack Obama and America hostage for the two terms of his Presidency. They should no-longer be allowed to be paid their salaries or compensation out of the Treasury of the United States: they are not doing their job, therefore the taxpayers should not be resposible for paying their salaries. House Representatives are in-violation of our constitutional rights. The Constitution says: "We the people of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and extablish this Constitution for the United States of America."

A very dear friend of mine Jillian Holder was charged and convicted with complicity of murder and complicity to attempted murder in 2001. She was sentenced under the Ohio Revised Code 2923.03 (sub section (F) that states, “Whoever violates this section is guilty of complicity in the commission of an offense, and shall be prosecuted and punished as if he were a principal offender. A charge of complicity may be stated in terms of this section or in terms of the principal offense”. Though she did not murder no one or attempt to murder anyone she was given a punishment just as sever. This is not a question of punishment but one of what is the right punishment. Laws are made to protect us and a fare sentence of punishment should be a priority.

The effects of chained CPI benefit cuts will be cumulative. They will be felt at an age when women most need the help. As our other meager resources have diminished or been spent down, our Social Security benefits will be critical to our ability to live independently. But our Social Security benefits will not have keep pace with inflation. Married women outlive their spouses and may be on their own when the effects of the chained CPI kick in. Therefore, these cuts to Social Security will fall disproportionately on elderly women - single, divorced, widowed, .

NO PROTECTION FOR THOSE WITH A DEFAULTED PRIVATE STUDENT LOAN.