North Carolina has more potential for offshore wind than any Atlantic state. Combine that with our world-class research institutions and existing green energy incentives, and North Carolina can chart a clean energy future, with offshore wind at the forefront. The first step in charting our future in offshore wind is for North Carolina’s leaders to support extending federal tax incentives vital for both onshore and offshore wind power production. The coal and oil lobby is urging Congress to let these tax credits expire, which would mean the loss of 37,000 jobs along with increased pollution. That is why Environment North Carolina is calling the state’s leaders to take advantage of North Carolina’s offshore wind potential by supporting extending the wind energy tax credit. It’s time to make history, again.

The USDA does not care about disabled people. The USDA classes Disabled Farmers and Ranchers as Socially Disadvantage Farmers and Rancher, yet when you apply for help they do not take into account your disability until you pass a credit check, and not before.

Repo car laws in Virginia should be rewritten to benefit the people,protect their credit rating,protect the auto industry standing,and at the same time make money,lower the property taxes on the auto that people do not own yet.

Rep. Fred Upton must drop the Norquist anti-tax pledge and allow the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% to come to an end. Grover Norquist has created a zealous, self-promoting tax scourge & is trying to take down the government by holding our elected officials hostage to this pledge. This has only caused division in our government and is making it impossible for our officials to work together as they were elected to do. Remember WE pay their salaries which means they work for US not Grover Norquist. He has also been linked to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Why would you back such a person? It's time to abandon this pledge and get back to the government of the people and start serving those that elected you and not some special interest lobbyist.

We need to get our national priorities right--there is an obscene amount of money and time spent on presidential and other campaigns.

In the last two years, as a result of the majority GOP legislature, Maine's clean elections have been virtually "wiped" out. This makes it very difficult for middle class citizens to run for our citizen political offices.

Native Americans have nearly been forced into oblivion because of our(American citizens) nearly complete disregard and indifference to their plight. We make efforts to save peoples all over the world, we make efforts to save the whale and the rain forest, etc., Saving the people indigenous to this land should have the same high priority as helping others everywhere else in the world.

any congressional fiilibuster should get 5 hours of discussion with each side getting 2.5 houres ... if no agreement after that it will go to a vote of the people at the next federal election. Federal election are every 2 years. Winners are 50% + 1

Get government spending in line before we walk off the fiscal cliff literally. Everyday a foreign government gets their debt rating downgraded. Governments like Greece, Ireland, and Spain are already toying with the world's markets. Rumors are France and Italy are not far behind. If those fall then the world economy will be hurting. If we let the United States fall, the world economy will never recover. Stop the madness and stop passing our debts on future generations.

Are you tired of hearing the media discuss the Fiscal Cliff negotiations with "no specifics" from the politicians involved? Do you want to find out what our elected officials are really fighting over when it comes to this so-called economic disaster? Overall, would you like to be able to sit in during these negotiations so we know who is fighting for whom, and who is being stubborn and who is being reasonable?

To help reduce the income gap between the richest and the poorest Americans, impose an excess profits tax to induce corporations (and related subsidiaries, branches, sister companies) and similar organisations, to reduce the gap in the incomes of their own employees through a special 100% corporate tax upon the portion of income over $250,000 received from corporations etc by any one of their employees, when such portion exceeds 100 times the income received from such corporations by their lowest paid employee." Example: if a full- or part time employee, say, an executive, receives income from his/her corporate employer of more than $250'000 per year and the amount over $250,000, annualised, does not exceed 100 times the income, annualised, received by the corporation's lowest paid employee, the tax does not apply. If the amount exceeds 100 times the income received by the lowest paid employee for the same fiscal year, then an "excess-profits" tax is levied on any corporation which has received a US bailout since 2002, equal to 100% of the excess over $250,000 received by the executive. Thus, if an executive receives as compensation, say, $1,000,000 annualised (i.e. for part time or full time work) and the lowest paid employee receives, say, $6,000 annualised (full or part time), then the tax on the corporation will be $750.000. If the low paid employee receives $8,000 annualised, there is no tax. In a company where the gap between richest and poorest paid is very large, say the executive is paid $15 million and the lowest paid employee is paid $120,000, the tax would be $13,750,000. I have not tested the formula for any but the examples shown. I would not be personally affected by such a law. Those primarily affected would be multimillionnaires earning a very large multiple of what their employees are paid.

Ignoring the voice of the people in the state of Florida! Elections have consequences, DUH.