There are more than 27,000 wells in the US and each well uses 1-8 million gallons of water and 80-300 tons of chemicals each time it's fracked (wells can be fracked up to 8 times). The fracking industry remains exempt from Clean Water, Safe Drinking Water and Clean Air Acts, hazardous waste disposal and other federal regulations. This is absurd! Please help keep our water safe!

Hydraulic Fracturing is a dangerous thing Think of all the dangers it brings Gas drillers make money and if we frack New York our water will be ruined.

Over 46 million Americans lack health insurance. A comparable number are underinsured. Those with insurance are paying more in premiums and more out-of-pocket as well. And even the insured may face bankruptcy if they get sick. Many have to choose between paying for medicine and paying for food and housing. A national, universal, single-payer health care program, or Improved Medicare for All, as defined by U.S. House Bill H.R. 676, would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that builds on the existing Medicare program. It would improve and expand Medicare to cover all U.S. residents. It's time to choose people over profits!

Cuba is a beautiful country, which many Americans visit, despite the failed embargo that has been in place for 50 years. Americans and American business should have the same right to visit Cuba, or do business with Cuba, as the rest of the world does.

Bill recently passed that will allow teachers to carry a gun in the classroom.

It is not fair to have the State of Florida sponsor a license plate for "prolife" argument without sponsoring one for the other side, the pro choice argument. It is not fair for athiests living in Florida

According to a study conducted by a consortium or nations, studying the claims made by Monsanto that genetically engineered seeds will be drought resistant, will creater higher yields, as well as pest and weed control. These ge seeds underperformed in yield and pests and weeds appear to be have better adaptive properties than the genetically engineered crops.www.centerforfoodsafety.org. GMO-Emperor-final-10-11.pdf

A petition to retract the Reagan administration regulations on private citizens making fuel Alcohol, for personal use. We used to be allowed to make fuel for personal vehicles, under Carter, at about a dollar a gallon. If we were permitted to do that again, the oil companies would have a serious incentive to lower the cost of gasoline.

To facilitate a greater good in America, we demand that all Legislators submit to a Blood Drawn Drug Test just as Legislators are demanding recipients of public assistance be tested. We demnad people making these decisions effecting the PUBLIC be tested, regularly and randomly.

I am concerned about restoring public education funds to the Texas state budget.

Reduce the NYS work force by atrition & by offering a buy out program like 5 yrs service & 5 yrs age for everyone over 50 years with no penalty

My daughter attends 3rd grade in a New York City public school. At age 8, she has been taking the kind of standardized test I wasn't expected to take until high school. These tests are causing intelligent children like her, as young as 8 and 9, to be stressed out and hate school! What's worse, the blind, sudden implementation of these tests means that students in my daughter's grade are being tested on material they haven't studied. And teachers are being expected to teach material for which they are not adequately prepared. How is that fair? Challenging children is a good idea. Setting them up to fail by new and arbitrary tests based on standards with dubious educational efficacy for which children have not been prepared is not. And causing children to feel they are stupid and hate school is one of the worst ideas for the citizens of New York State.