The 2008 meltdown is attributed to the deregulation of the Glass Steagall Act > Also called The Banking Act was instituted in 1933 to separate the workings of commercial and investment banks. In 1999 under Bill Clinton it was deactivated so banks could enlarge without oversight. The reinstatement of this bill is the single most important step toward a balanced economy..

The so-called Arab Spring is part of a broader Global Spring, where the people of the world are taking note of what governments are doing and having the courage to stand up for what they believe in. President Dwight Eisenhower said that "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." He was right. At the very least, the U.S. government should make it a crime for any American leader to authorize armed force in violation of our commitments under the U.N. Charter and relevant international law, so that the people of the world will know that that's not what America and Americans are about.

A lot of senior citizens have little or no health insurance, going with the federal government will make it easier for all senior citizens.

MONTANA: A recent flurry of new state bills have been introduced seeking to reduce the wolf populations with even more aggressive management ‘tools’ that make it easier to hunt and trap more wolves. I am an animal rights advocate with a PASSION for WOLVES! I work along with many other advocates in many groups to SAVE and PROTECT all WOLF SPECIES here in the United States and Worldwide. We will not STOP our fight until they are returned to the ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST, before the last wolf is killed in our country...it's just a matter of time. We OPPOSE these bills and ask that you sign and share our petition along with contacting Montanas state agencies and businesses below to express that you also OPPOSE these wolf bills!

Fracking has serious health and environmental effects. So far, there is much grass roots activism in the midwestern and northeastern states most affected. I live in Washington State where there is no significant fracking yet. I want to encourage others like me to get involved and I want to let the federal government know we are here.

We want to close the Summit County Fairgrounds in Akron, Ohio as a venue to gun shows. These gunshows are nothing but a way to buy an assault riffle and other dangerous hardware with out a back ground check. It should not be funded with our tax dollars.

Coal Combustion Byproducts or Residuals ("CCB" or "CCR") are filled with concentrated toxins, including heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, and mercury, and other compounds such as hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brokovich fame). Power companies, such as American Electric Power ("AEP") and others are dumping CCBs into watersheds, in unlined "fill" projects which are categorized as "beneficial use" of the materials. After the Kingston, Tennessee collapse of a CCB pond in 2008, President Obama and the EPA vowed to prevent such a catastrophe agagain. After the EPA held public hearings in 2010, the overwhelming majority of comments were in favor of regulating CCBs as a hazardous solid waste under Subtitle C of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"). To date, the EPA has yet to deliver a sensible regulation on this material. Big Coal power companies such as AEP continue to use CCBs as an unregulated "fill" material, depositing it on the banks of rivers and streams that provide drinking water for entire communities. This practice must stop. Urge the President to allow the EPA to regulate CCBs as a hazardous waste under Subtitle C of RCRA!

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holding dirty energy companies liable for the dirty air and consequent negative impact on human health, the ecosystem, all living beings and the planet. I live 1 mile from a coal burning power plant and smell the dirty air frequently. Even the dogs die from cancer around here

I was a Workers Compensation Claims Examiner for many years. Now I am an injured worker. I have seen both sides of the system. The system has been skewed in favor of Insurance Carriers. People with settlements entitling them to future medical benefits are being denied for no other reason than the carrier can get away with it. In these situations, the injured workers' attorney has already been paid. There are no longer penalties to keep Insurers in line, and no reason for the attorney to do anything. They don't work for free. The "penalty" system in place now does not discourage Insurance Carriers from playing games with benefits people are entitled to. My adjuster illegally stopped payment of awarded permanent disability benefits. The big penalty for creating havoc in my life: $37.00. The Insurers have total medical control. That means any doctor who still will treat an injured worker is more interested in keeping the Insurer happy than he is about taking care of the injured worker. This year a majority of my medical benefits will be taken away by a game called "utilization review". Instead of reviewing my medical history to determine if a benefit is necessary, my Insurer will send a few pages of records, along with their viewpoint, to what we use to call a "doc in a box". That's a doctor whose going to tell you what, as an Insurer, you want to hear. If these doctors authorize treatment and benefits, do you think the Carrier is going to continue using them? My carrier has gone through 3 Utilization Review companies in the last year! The Insurance Industry had managed to cut benefits, take complete control of medical treatment, kick attorneys out of the system...and there's no one to stop them. I began as an Examiner in 1992. Workers Comp laws had just been changed to protect the injured worker. We called the older cases "starve and settle", because that's what happened. The examiner would stop benefits and wait until the injured worker was in such financial straits that they'd settle for nothing. I have problems getting medical treatment I'm legally entitled to and there's not much I can do. It's time to stop this!

We have discriminatory sanctions against every Cuban "national" who has left Cuba permanently if, at any time since July 1963, the individual was a Cuban citizen, or was permanently resident or domiciled in Cuba. Unlike all other U.S. sanctions, we block Cuban refugees' assets unless the U.S. Treasury Department has issued them a license. For example, a Cuban exile who becomes a Spanish citizen cannot eat at McDonald's in Madrid, open a bank or securities account at a U.S. bank's subsidiary in Barcelona, or be sent a gift from a cousin in the United States without a Treasury license. (A license unblocks Cuban exiles who have legally resided in the United States.) We should end this U.S. discrimination against Cuban exiles in third countries, which imposes huge compliance costs for U.S. subsidiaries abroad, angers countries with different policies toward Cuba, and which provides no benefit to U.S. sanctions policy. Limit U.S. sanctions against individual Cubans to people in Cuba now.

We need to institute a 1% tax on derivative sales transactions on Wall Street. Currently, Wall Street makes about 100 TRILLION DOLLARS per year on derivative sales...and...they pay NO TAX at all for this profit. A 1% tax of the sale of derivatives will bring about 10 TRILLION dollars in revenue which can be used to eliminate our national debt in about 2 years! Some Democratic and Republican representatives are considering bills in Congress to do this...they need our support! Europe has already voted to implement this tax to cure their debt issues...we need to do the same! For more details on this tax, visit http://www.robinhoodtax.org/ .