We are concerned about the effects of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on our environment, quality of life and health. We wish to safe guard our clean water supplies for human, crop and livestock consumption, our starry night skies from light pollution, our roads from destruction, our families from violent lawless behavior, our earth and our health from caustic carcinogenic chemicals, our property from right of way violations and our infrastructure from the devastation of earthquakes.

OK House Bill 1063 would disband a program that sends public health nurses into the home of poor, first-time mothers. As a nurse, I know this program contributes to healthy moms and babies but also cuts the risk of child abuse and neglect.

I work in the lending industry and every day talk to people who are underwater on their homes . The first time homebuyer usually has very little established credit, low down payment and entry level incomes making it very difficult to qualify them for a home. We need to loosen up credit standards and move the affordable loan FNMA/FHLMC cutoff date beyond May 31st, 2009

Maryland's child access prevention ( CAP) law needs to be amended. Its intent 20 years go was to prevent children from accessing firearms due to irresponsible firearm owners. Maryland's CAP law ,one of 28 nationwide, defines a child as under 16, has no penalty for accessing an unloaded firearm, and a maximum $ 1,000 fine for a firearm owner allowing a child to access a loaded firearm. CAP laws do not take away a gun owner's constitutional right to own a firearm , nor do they they tell gun owners how to secure or store their firearms.

Supporting Tax loopholes for big business hurts all of us.

My husband and I are both retired from the Postal Service, because we are federal annuitants we are taxed on our retirement income while Social Security annuitants are not. This unfair pracitce does not only affect federal employees, it also affects state employees and teachers. Many other states do not tax their retirees in this manner when they are at a point of their life when their income is fixes and medical bills have increased.

I am a Wake Technical Community College student. I depend, not unlike many, on my financial assistance from the school. This is not in my best interest or the best interest of any student at this school. It is simply so that the school can save money and the higher-one corp can make money.

We are all stewards of the earth, and it is our responsibility to take care of our land and water. Hydrofracking is inconsistent with that responsibility and should not be allowed anywhere in the State of New York.

Governor Deal has rejected the billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funds available to us through the Healthcare Act. The Medicaid cuts are unnecessarily hurting poor Georgians daily. I see it in my work as a hospice director every day. He is taking a political stance just because he does not want to go along with something President Obama put in place--at the expense of Georgia's most vulnerable citizens. Several red state governors in the US have reneged on their stance against accepting the money. We need to call on Governor Deal to do the same thing---accept the Medicaid money! This is NOT a new thing--we already accept federal Medicaid money. These funds will only work to improve Georgia's healthcare.

Increasing the gas tax on a retail basis will add another 8 to 9 cents a gallon to the cost of gas for Vermonters. This is a regressive tax which will hurt low-income Vermonters who must commute largely by car to get to their jobs. It will also hurt gas station owners along the New Hampshire border where NH gas stations already have a 7 cent a gallon advantage.

There are many self-employed individuals and uninsured people who deserve quality healthcare at a price they can afford.

Innocent people are being shot down on our streets by the thousands.