We again will be having employees with out jobs..Sending our lottery out of the US.The people in Pa are tired of decisions being done by Harrisburg, considering the people who elected you..To Pass this without the peoplr knowing is wrong.To pass this in secrete is wrong.

The anti-teacher forces in the Kansas House of Representatives released a bill that effectively dismantles collective bargaining for teachers.

Gerrymandered districts distort the public will by allowing political considerations to advantage one political party.

Long standing members of the General Assembly control many aspects of all Marylanders' lives, in all districts, even though the majority have never voted for or against their continuance in office. Our local representatives are powerless against the entrenched political machine. Term limitations will help ensure such vast power does not become concentrated in individuals who were not directly elected by those upon whom their actions effect.

In Tennesse, a battered woman must name her batter before reccieving medical care. I am an artist and anthropolgist that learned about the plight of battered women doing a course on battered women at the University of Tennesse at Chattanooga. I have followed this terrible action on women since that time. Bills introduced in the past have failed in the State House in TN. The government must realized that abused women personality change as they are abused, and they tend to fault themselves plus more women are killed by their abuser. Yes, an attempt was made by a person to abuse me, but I was strong enough to escape because I realized the consquences. Silverrene Roundtree

The debate on what to do about guns is rancorous and politically log-jammed. Remember the saying "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns"? Let's address THAT issue in a way that everyone, including the NRA, will agree can help.

Kids are being negatively effected by social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) everyday. I am a guidance counselor and I see students everyday who are harrassed or made to feel less than they are on these sites. Kids under 16 are not emotionally equipped to deal with these pressures and the negativity they are faced with on these site. Many parents do not monitor their own child's sites for appropriateness and children can easily be publicly humiliated. It is heartbreaking to see children in the news who commit suicide due to online bullying. These sites need to be regulated like alcohol and driving. It is a danger to our young kids well being and self esteem.

Many beloved pet dogs are being senselessly killed on public lands by legally set body grip fur harvesting traps in the state of MN. Hundreds of thousands of hunters and people recreating with dogs on our public grounds are being terrorized by a minority of trappers using body grip traps. If regulations were adjusted to require body grip traps to be set 5 ft. above ground or completely submerged in water, trappers could continue to successfully harvest furs and the vulnerability of dogs would be considerably reduced. This is being done to the benefit of dogs and trappers in neighboring states and Canadian provinces.

Crony Capitalism is a pestilence that infects both major U.S. parties. Here’s a revealing case in point, involving the so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that was negotiated by the White House and the GOP, and showing how a $500 million payoff to biotech company Amgen was snuck in at the last minute, effectively reducing Amgen’s record U.S. fine of $762 million in criminal and civil penalties by two thirds, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. See http://billmoyers.com/segment/u-s-rep-peter-welch-on-amgen%e2%80%99s-sweet-senate-deal/ In this exposé of political “skullduggery” (to use Bill Moyers’s term), Moyers reveals how a New York Times investigative report (published two days before the inauguration) traced the sell-out actions of Republican Mitch McConnell, Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Orrin Hatch, “a trio of perpetrators, who treat the U.S. Treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate America,” according to Moyers. We demand repeal of the paragraph that made this shameless giveaway to Amgen possible. Moyers’s discussion with House Democratic Representative Peter Welch suggests that even Tea Party GOPers might join in with other hoodwinked electeds to repeal this clearly corrupt payoff to a corporate wrongdoer. This is well worth viewing and acting upon to repeal what discredits our government and both houses at the highest levels. There can be no excuse for not going after this one!

The present Electoral system has only failed three times to elect a president that had won the popular vote. If a system of awarding office by congressional districts is put in place, that once rare occurrence will become commonplace.

A friend of my family grieved himself to death because of a senseless crime . His daughter was murdered with a stolen gun. Shot in the head along with two other of her friends. Louisiana has the largest number of people killed with guns according to CDC findings (46%).

Eliminating the electoral college system of electing the president of the United States of America