I don't own any guns. I don't need to own them. I respect a citizens who want own guns but it breaks my heart to read about a child shooting a friend or sibling! There are too many loose guns. I'm looking for gun owner responcibiliy!

Unemployment Insurance benefits being taken from us because he only cares about the upper one percent and his platform is Classic Liberalism. Survival of the fittest or wealthiest among us, and no concern for; We The People! Please help us who are applying daily for jobs and want to work and are not working through no fault of our own.

Excess campaign funds should not be utilized by politicians for their own benefit or to support foundations that further their idealogical goals.

We need increase in revenue and the FICA limit of 100,000 is too low I say raise it to to the tax increase limit of 400,000! This Would fund it forever!!

Every nine seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten. It is imperative that we renew the Violence Against Women Act with the added protections for Native American women, immigrant women and LGBT people so that we can protect everyone from domestic violence.

My grand-daughters live in Essex CO VA and are currently enrolled in Virginia Virtual Academy (VAVA) - an online public home school option. The elder granddaughter has an Individual Education Plan (IEP). Public online home schooling is an optimal and viable educational option enabling her to learn in a free and safe educational environment. Since the current Virginia Virtual Academy program only extends to the 8th grade, she will not be afforded this excellent online public homeschooling opportunity next year when she enters high school. This petition is a request for your support to increase Virginia Virtual Academy to include High School. It is also a request to support expanding Virginia Virtual Academy by increasing VA Counties enrolling students in this public school option. The VAVA online homeschool program provides increased educational opportunities for all children - especially those with IEPs who are often bullied in school..

As a taxpayer in the State of Illinois, I find it incredibly distrurbing that I am being "double taxed" on use of major highways that were suppossed to be for "temporary" fund replenishment. In a state that has seen its income tax doubled, its tollway fares doubled, the sales tax increased and is now rated one of the worst in the nation for financial stability among other worsts, it is time for the government to stop double taxing it's citizens and start being more finacnially responsible with the money they are already collecting.

To: Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner - It's become all too apparent that congress has acted on behalf of special interests and lobbyists, and not on behalf of the majority of the American people.

We need Democratic and others besides Republican Presidential candidates to be elected for the benefit of others besides the wealthy and the military industrial complex. Though our current president has done too much killing of innocents in my opinion in the name of anti-terrorism by drone strikes (see Truth-out.org article about drone strikes). Maybe we need a Green next time in office. Someone who really believes in the power of diplomacy abroad, though Mr.Obama has certainly been an improvement over George W. Bush

Did you know some Medical Centers, particularly university hospitals, charge uninsured or underinsured people 3, 5 or sometimes 10 times more than other health centers? Did you know these Medical Centers make it almost impossible for you to find out their prices before you accept to get services? You are being bullied. They assign you the doctor they want, they tell you what to do and where, and then they charge you what they want. what I am asking in this petition is not impossible: Ohio requires a hospital to make its price information list available free of charge on its web site to any person and post an announcement of the list's availability in each of the hospital's billing offices and admission, patient waiting, and reception areas. New Jersey caps hospital charges at no more than 15 percent above the Medicare payment rate for residents with a gross family income less than 500 percent of the federal poverty level.

Osama bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda is done as a credible threat to the United States, and those who perpetrated the September 11th attacks are either dead or in prison. The law that authorized all of this, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, is now being used to justify abuses of civil liberties: the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, tribunals of the same using secret evidence, and the use of drones in assassinations of people accused of crimes against the United States without due process of law. As the AUMF's original purpose has run its course, it ought to be repealed, or otherwise rescinded.

Small "Mom and Pop" businesses have been driven out of business by an unfair tax code that unfairly benefits huge conglomerates. let's make the American economy great again by getting those that make 90% of the money to pay 90% of the taxes. Reinstitute a progressive tax that will allow small enterpreneurs to compete with the conglomerates by having lower overhead.