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.

mary mcginniss did not do her job correctly to get money owed to me by social security due to my disabilities, and socialsecurity went along with it, legal aid sarah williams did not want to do her job to fix it to get me what was owed after complaints multiple times, my case worker elaine hsu at social security has every one else take her biddings as she has ignored me and still does many complaints have been made and nothing gets done correctly, my father reggie sears has faut for social security since 1977 for rare blood disease and in 1996 he recieved his social security for a rare blood disease and did not get what was owed to him but social security will not give what is owed when he is 100 percent disabeled disintegrading spine, social security cant do there jobs correctly even when making complaints to the head office they know they are wrong and nothing gets done about it. and we have to keep paying for it what will be done lets get it fixed.

Mail service is being cut back 'cause a Republican dominated Congress passed legislation requiring the Post Office to fund Pensions and Benefits 75years in advance; they then gave the Post Office a 10 year window to do this. It is no wonder the Post Office is cash poor; they're paying it all into the Pensions and Benefits. No other business operating in the U.S. is required to do this.

GMO products are rapidly spreading over our entire Planet. The wealth and power of Monsanto, Dow and Dupont should NOT allow them to turn "their MODIFIED GENES" loose, without any research regarding Health and Environmental concerns.