The Citizens United decision has opened the floodgates for corporations and non-profit groups to pour undocumented and unlimited amounts of money into campaign advertising. This ruling has all but silenced the voice of citizens in favor of non-human entities.

Next year, The U.S. Senate will once again be nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. But without 60 votes, neither party can pass any meaningful legislation. To help break the gridlock in Washington, the leaders of both parties in the U.S. Senate should commit themselves NOW to adopting new Senate rules in January 2013 to end the filibuster, no matter which party gains control of the Senate in the November elections.

He outed the U B S bank in Switzerland for helping American clients evade federal taxes. This led to the recovery of billions of taxpayer dollars. His payoff was a 40 month prison sentence.

By meeting with oil and gas companies and expressing approval for hydrofacking in New York State, Governor Cuomo is putting our drinking water, our environment, our quality of life, and the future of our children and grandchildren at stake. As a resident of the Marcellus Shale Region, ground zero for fracking in NYS, my personal safety and the property value of my home are in dire danger. We are calling for Governor Cuomo to stand strong in support of New Yorkers and our drinking water, rather than succumbing to the financial desires of big oil and gas.

Voter I.D. Is unfair to the poor and minorities. I am not effectd by this but I feel every citizen has the right to vote.

Most analysts agree that the repeal of the financial regulation provided by the Glass-Steagall law made possible the financial meltdown that hurt so many of our citizens and led to the worst recession since the 1930s. I personally lost $50,000 of a $60,000 investment that was a large part of my retirement nest egg, and others in the same investment lost everything.

Background: Currently, Kentucky has linked its high school state education curriculum to National Education Standards. KY worked with the ACT program to develop state standards. Now, some Republican legislators are upset that the biology section includes evolution but not creationism. They think "Darwin made it up," and that evolution is "only a theory." I, the writer of the above petition, am a resident of KY and an evolutionary ecologist, and know very well how important the understanding of evolutionary theory is to understanding biology. The students of KY deserve the best education, not pseudoscience and religion in the science classroom.

Watching the deterioration of diplomacy with Iran, and hearing threats of war, I've felt deeply concerned that our country and its allies are not making use of proven conflict-resolution techniques such as Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. All peoples, especially in Iran and Israel, stand to lose enormously if full-scale war breaks out, and it is our duty to do all we can to foster a peaceful resolution.

Over 300 cities and six states have adopted resolutions to have Citizens United repealed. The people of Carson City, Nevada want to stand with these communities in defending democracy from the corrupting effects of undue corporate power.

Extreme weather swings affect the most vulnerable: the elderly, those who are ill, and the young Extreme weather swings escalate health care costs, food costs, and threaten natural resources with floods, fire, landslides, and job destruction.

This petition allows the public to submit, on the national elections, a bill that citizens vote on that states the congress must abide by the same laws and regulations that all citizens do in relation to social security, pensions, and healthcare. Why should they have all the rich benefits that many of us have to sacrifice once we are retired from a job? I think this should be a vote decided on by the people. Let them go on social security after their exit from congress, and find their own healthcare.

Local newspaper coverage of the arrest of high school students handcuffed for fighting at school.