In the 2012 election, Democratic candidates for Congress received over 50% of the vote, but only got five of the eighteen seats. Several districts, including the one I live in, had landslide victories. Pennsylvanians deserve competitive elections, and fair elections. However, that will not be done unless party politics is taken out of redistricting.

Designating 1000 state jobs as "appointed positions" is a disastrous and purely partisan move. This is an increase from the 400 senior level managerial positions that were previously designated. This increase significantly changes the civil service of North Carolina into a patronage system and does damage to the professionalism and credibility of the state. This is a shameful abuse of power and deleterious not only to employees in the system but to the citizens whose tax dollars support these positions.

To ensure children's safety at school.

Voting in a fair and equal environment is a constitutional right--a right that is being taken away by Republican legislators and taken away using subversive tactics. We must make absolutely certain that Governor McDonnell vetoes this bill!

If members of Congress can’t do their jobs and pass a responsible budget, then they don’t deserve to get paid. It is important to work together to come up with a balanced budget that reduces our debt, while keeping our country safe, and reasonable revenues for responsible programs to invest in our future.

We have the money for St. Augustine School but now we don't have the money for 27 School's that going to close one after another. I'm effected in many ways as my children want to go to three (3) different schools now and lose their friends. Including 170 parents that have to go thru same situation my marriages are falling apart. Please someone help us now, they are making final decisions the regional board (two schools already have been closed).

I am a RN who is working in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I am very concerned with patient to nursing care ratios. Management can assign as many patients to one nurse as they deem appropriate. When management increases the number of patients assigned to a nurse, this also increase the risk of errors by the nurse to the patient and thus decreases patient's safety. I have worked at 4 different hospitals here in Las Vegas, and found that each of these hospitals have allowed for unsafe patient to nurse ratios where in which nursing staff have been so overwhelmed that errors have occured and thus patient safety jeopardized. If your loved one was hospitalized wouldn't you want the best care for them. Please consider having state mandated patient to nurse ration to keep our patient safe from errors and our nurses safe as well.

Sen. Constance Johnson, who made headlines recently when she fought to get a hearing for medical marijuana in the Oklahoma Legislature, has filed legislation that calls upon the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to establish a medical marijuana program in the Sooner State. Separately, she is also sponsoring legislation that would reduce the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Sen. Johnson’s medical marijuana bill, SB 902, is short and to the point. Rather than spelling out all the details in the legislation, the bill simply directs the medical board to develop and adopt rules allowing patients to obtain permission from their doctors to use marijuana and to establish fees for the “licensing, production, distribution, and consumption” of medical marijuana. Johnson’s other bill, SB 914, would lessen the penalty for possession of 1.5 ounces or less from a maximum of one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 to a maximum of 10 days in jail and a fine of up to $200.

Stop the foot dragging with creating serious gun controls. I do not want to be a victim of the next rampage nor anyone else to be likewise effected. Time we grew up in this country and stop trying to be the "wild west" again.

Children's toys shouldn't be glorifying a controversial CIA assassination program that kills innocent children and violates international law. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, 176 children have been killed by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. Human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have sharply criticized the CIA drone strike program and called for it to stop. Don't let Maisto desensitize our children to the killing of other children!

Child safety on horse-pulled on-road vehicles.

I moved to Florida seven years ago. To date every election that has taken place, i.e. Presidential, state, and local, has resulted in numerious recounts, with the hopes of changing the actual results. The state and local government should give the citizens of Florida some credit for seeing this for what it really is...Another way to control the outcome of elections for the benefit of a few...Lets put a stop to this kind of government...