There are efforts in progress to reform the filibuster in the U.S. Senate. Senator Feinstein has indicated that she currently opposes those reforms. The current filibuster rules have been abused to frustrate meaningful progress in the Senate. Any reforms must be passed when the Senate reconvenes in January.

My brother recently had a stroke and aneurism because he did not have health coverage and could not afford to purchase high blood pressure medicine.

I would like start a petition to the President and Congress to write a bill to the bankers to give our tax dollar back from when they were bailed out initially. I don't understand why they were bailed out, but it is now apparent they don't need the money, and haven't done with the money anything to help the tax payers.

DO NOT SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES UNTIL THEY DO THE RIGHT THING! LETS HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS, THERE BUSINESS AND PROFITS................... This petition is for all those that are working at WAL-MART, McDonalds, Wendy's, Arby's, Burger King, K-Mart and all others who only pay a minimum wage, don't give holiday pay, no insurance or any benefits. This economy can support a minimum wage of at least $10.00 hr and benefits for all employees. Why should everyone that works for them have to depend on welfare and other govt benefits and pass this burden onto other taxpayers.

Around the world and heavily in the United States, airplanes are spraying aluminum, barium and other agents in cloud seeding (also called Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering and chemtrails) programs. This is creating manmade floods, droughts, severe weather and global dimming. It's also poisoning the soil and making it inhospitable for crops to grow, except for genetically modified organisms that are engineered to withstand the effects created by the weather control program that poisons the soil. Until last summer, I had beautiful, healthy vegetables in my garden. This summer I had few vegetables, and they were in poor condition. The documentary film online "Why In The World Are They Spraying?" explains these devastating programs in detail.

Three recent and often cited studies declaring fracking without danger have been debunked. University backed units in two cases were either eliminated or department heads resigned/retired. A third study was called off when faculty refused to participate.

This petition is global. Our objective is to win the war. For the war on terrorism let the soldiers from that country deal with them instead of wasting money on American soldiers around the world. Also greed like in businesses, government and insurance is part of the problem the economy went out of shape and so many cuts in general. War has also hurt the economy. People aren't all insured for damage on their property and housing issues too as there are many reasons we're signing this petition. Also issues with insurance claims like on public places or homes. It's not just making the world and country great. There's poverty going on as a reason for signing this petition. The war in the middle east has caused sequestration. We have goals in our lives to want to accomplish and that's an important reason to sign this petition. We have hopes and dreams in even our future as this is an important thing on this petition. This petition for us all helping each other out on things. Let's have confidence in signing this petition and be confident on this petition. This petition is in need of confidence. Politicians don't completely have the power to change those things but this petition is to go to all those around the world that do. Years of war in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein is what it is the most that got us in a mess with both budget and economy crisis and all kinds of cuts in general of as what this feels like. This petition is mostly so much affecting us. The economy was in the worst shape in the great depression in world history and this petition is also on the economic recovery. If it has recovered before after the great depression it should again. This is almost anything to take action for and anyone to send the letters for reshaping the world. I send this to Americans as well as we need to take responsibility for our own actions.This petition is supposed to go to people that can do things about those situations and in control of all that stuff that this petition is about so it's not just to politicians. There is American greed as well as corporate greed in the world and that's part of the problem with the economic downfall. This is mostly on the economy in bad shape. It's not just oil companies greedy that affect us. We know from the bad economy allot of work hours get cut or businesses cut short on employees. Let's even take action to get the unemployment rate to the lowest we can get. It's also that budget cuts are said to be bad for the economy but the economic crisis and financial crisis world wide appears to trigger budget cuts to become common. We have had the global financial crisis as well in those past years. This petition is to take action for reshape from that as well. Part of it was that the economy was discovered to be in bad shape. This petition is also for taking action on recession. There have been college prices ridiculous as well and having to raise prices of things because of high gas prices as of 2008. That's ridiculous. Colleges might not be greedy but many things are having prices even too high. Part of signing this petition is for helping the poor in the world. Maybe even fares and tolls are ridiculous. As of again this petition goes to all the people in control of that as of the target of this petition being to Americans but could be forwarded to people all over the world. This petition goes to all people around the world in control of the prices of gas and oil as well. This is to all those in control of those prices all over the world. This petition is for tax cuts as well and there are states with ridiculous property taxes. There are other businesses greedy. There must be other things than greed in businesses or ridiculous prices of things upsetting the economy. There had to be budget cuts and there are hours of workers being cut along with maybe salaries. Even businesses having to cut short on employees. The job issues and issues with joining emergency services are more important than issues with driving schools. There had to even be budget cuts. Cuts on things were getting common in 2007. There was the global financial crisis in 2007 as this petition is also for taking action on that. There might as well be cuts on businesses doing business in the recession and cuts on educations. We know that businesses lost business to high gas prices, the economic issues and even anything else affecting us with even businesses gone out of business. This is a bit about undoing so much damage that the Bush/Cheney administration had done just. There has been allot of blaming the Bush/Cheney administration for the economy out of shape and high gas prices as George W. Bush was in oil businesses. We want to have this petition to the people in control of things. Part of the problem on the economy crisis is that prices of things are too high and it's not good for business as it could chase away customers. So much greed and stupidity in the world to how the economy is in bad shape. This is the reason is goes to Americans. It's like the people in control of the situations like even car insurance as well. This petition is also to go to any of those in control of the prices of gas. Maybe as long as cars run on gas there could be more support on fuel efficient cars and cars running on the better alternatives than gas. There should even be airplanes, helicopters, boats, truck and buses fuel efficient along with other motor vehicles. Maybe even all those other motor vehicles along with cars have the better energy sources than gas. This is even about getting the prices of gas to the lowest they can get to or anything on the lowest the prices can be. There are waiting lists on things. It's not just to get lessons to drive cars or commercial vehicles but issues with joining emergency services and the unemployment rate is at the highest. This could happen in highly populated areas that driving schools for cars have too many on the waiting lists to get everyone o...

In central North Korea, lie two of North Korea’s five largest concentration camps: Camp 14 and Camp 18, which hold an approximate total of 50,000 political prisoners, their spouses, and children. The camps lie near an area rich in coal, where mines are worked by prisoners.

Instead of debating social issues that divide us, let us all come together to stop children from being born addicted to drugs. Let's start educating children, teens, adults early and prevent this tragedy both to the children and the cost to society!

The deficit is out of control - this is the one and only chance to reinstate the 39.6% tax rate to wealthy Americans. To accept less than 39.6% and then reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits is a give-a-way to the wealthy and a horrible message to send to everyone else.

Dana Perino of FOX news insinuating that female victims of violence made poor decisions that led to the acts of violence are insensitive and totally wrong. Perhaps in some instances, the female victim could have been more careful - in hindsight. To make a general statement that female victims of violence should have made better decisions is totally wrong, ignorant and insensitive.

Making Israel stop its illegal settlements, human right abuses and wanton aggression.