The northern California coast is one of the most biologically diverse and productive marine ecosystems in the world thanks to protections in place by the National Marine Sanctuary system. However, a broadly supported local effort to expand the Sanctuary boundaries, Representative Lynn Woolsey’s bill (HR 192), has stalled in Congress. Your support is needed today to urge President Barak Obama to declare a protective marine monument in the area proposed for Marine Sanctuary expansion by Woolsey in HR 192. Obama has the power of executive order to grant Californian’s this wonderful gift and provide Rep. Woolsey closure to her campaign to protect California’s Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino coasts from the threats of offshore oil drilling before she retires at the end of this term. The plan to expand the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries from Marin north through the entire Sonoma Coast to Point Arena in southern Mendocino County has wide support from California elected officials, local governments, the Marin County Board of Supervisors, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, fishing organizations, businesses, chambers of commerce and environmental groups. Expanding the National Marine Sanctuaries would prevent oil drilling and offer other protections to an area that is one of the most biologically productive regions in the entire world. It would ensure that this vital area would be protected so it can continue to provide jobs for the coastal economy, the tourism industry, and the commercial and recreational fishing communities. President Obama has less that a month to act before Rep. Woolsey leaves office! Her replacement, Jared Huffman, is also a strong supporter of HR 192. Obama can follow his predecessors in establishing marine monuments through executive order; in January 2000, President Bill Clinton established the California Coastal National Monument by executive order, protecting all the islets, reefs and rock outcroppings — including the Farallon Islands — along the 840-mile California coast; in 2006, President George Bush, inspired by his wife, Laura, created the Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Monument northwest of Hawaii and created the largest protected area in U.S. waters! Join the Turtle Island Restoration Network in urging President Obama to take swift and decisive action to create a marine monument for the preservation of California’s valuable marine wildlife and the security of this ecosystem that we all depend on.

Thousands of NM citizens are without health insurance right now. By expanding Medicaid in New Mexico under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) we can ensure those citizens, who are our friends and neighbors, will be able to obtain health insurance and access health care when they need it. Expanding Medicaid in NM will also create hundreds of new jobs in our state.

Nationwide surveys indicate that texting while driving is dangerous and traffic fatalities have risen as a result. In response to this, several states have laws in place that ban texting while driving. By signing this petition you will be asking Florida lawmakers to make texting while driving illegal and punishable as a severe traffic violation.

no more uneducated people in government like people with less knowledge than junior high school knowledge in biology and so on! Are we exceptional or not?

My Anthem Blue Cross premium has gone up twice this year. It has gone up about 44.5%, and by February 2013, I will be asked to pay $856 a month. We need a moratorium on these fees.

The middle class has suffered greatly in the last 8 years and paid their fair share in taxes on their earnings while our 'elite' wealthy have received a low tax rate on their earnings. In Texas our Govenor and legislature has shown a disdain for education and healthcare for our citizens.

San Diego Police Department is currently attempting to remove exemptions for Non-Profits, holding fundraisers, forcing them to pay large fees and possibly declining to approve thousands of small fundraising events a year without providing the citizens the choice to vote on the issue under false pretense of Prop 26.

Big anonymous super pacs secretly funded by billionaires and multinational corporations have corrupted our government. Our democracy is being stolen right out from under our noses by those who would finance and influence government officials to legislate their bidding. The supreme court's decision in "citizens united" has given person hood to corporations and money has become free speech.

To find out who is paying their salary and payrolling this very unpopular and unamerican stand to burden the middle class with a debt that was caused by the greed of others...

I am tired of my vote not counting!!!!

Solve fiscal cliff while putting the USA on a new, fair and sustainable income tax.

Because Republican lawmakers refuse to sign off on Middle Class tax cuts, Middle Class Americans are dreading the impending fiscal cliff. This dread leads to more cautious spending or halted spending which, in turn, is hurting my family's small business!