• Minimum wage for Congress!
    I received a post on Facebook that said "Pay congress minimum wage and see how quick things change". Sounds like a good idea and it will save some tax payer money. More than half of them are millionaires anyway and have the best health benefits and retirement package of any public sector employee.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Robert Kelley
  • Outlaw Super Pacs
    It is time for voters to not be taken in by Super Pacs. We must stop influential groups from trying to buy our elections. This means protecting voter rights at all cost, and stopping filthy rich companies, governments, and other groups from trying to take the country over, and make it in their own image and likeness. Our country is about the people and their freedom to vote for who they choose without fighting the money interests that tend to leave them out of who wins and who loses.
    4 of 100 Signatures
    Created by P. W. Aitcheson
  • Expunge the fraudulent conviction of Abraham Bolden
    U.S. secret service agent Abraham Bolden wanted to testify before the presidents commission investigating the circumstances surrounding the the assassination of president John F. Kennedy Agent Bolden was warned not to testify what he knew about the presidents lack of security by the secret service. Agent Bolden served 14 years in prison because he dared to tell his story.
    3 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Randall Childs
  • Fair Elections for AZ Citizens
    To allow all Citizens of Az a fair and equal voice in electing political officals
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    Created by Allen Richards
  • Justice for Willie
    In 2006, our son Willie Rogers, at the age of 19, was wrongfully accused and sentenced to 12 years in one of Ohio's prisons. Willie was a good kid, no criminal record, always worked, and was in college. His accusers are out of prisons, enjoying their life. Willie is still in prison as of this date August 7, 2012. His family started an organization called "Partners With Justice."
    152 of 200 Signatures
    Created by Diane Rogers
  • Allow backyard chickens in Joliet, IL
    The City of Joliet is trying to force us to get rid our three backyard hens. A small flock of hens will produce eggs to feed a family, but they are pets and should not be classified by zoning ordinances as "farm animals."
    2,506 of 3,000 Signatures
    Created by Caroline Nelson
  • Classify ALL bashings as HATE CRIMES
    Following the recent events in Montana, It is time to call on Congress to pass Federal legislation to classify all bashings (be they due to sexual orientation, religion, race, gender or any other reason) as HATE CRIMES, and make them carry maximum penalty. Only then will things change for minorities.
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    Created by Denis Antoine
  • Strengthen laws against mentally ill people legally buying weapons.
    My petition would be about gun control, particularly the ease with which mentally ill people get weapons. We need a much stronger screen for a person's mental state. I am concerned because I have a severely mentally ill person in my family who periodically has hallucinations about plots against him. I think mental health professionals could develop a stronger screening program to block these individuals from gaining weapons. When I hear about mass shootings I don't think hate crimes, I think mentally ill people with weapons.
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Claudia Johnson
  • North Carolina : Reinstate planned parenthood funding
    BY defunding (in the middle of the night ) planned parenthood, N.C. legislature has denied people with limited incomes, teens, and the uninsured the ability to obtain health care. For many, Planned Parenthood is their only access to health care.
    17 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Karen Turro
  • The Pledge
    The pledge was started in 1986 by Grover Norquist and continues to this day. Members of Congress who have signed this pledge have promised never ever to raise taxes under any circumstances. My beloved Country, the USA has been in a financial crisis for years,and Congress who holds the power of money can help solve the problem, but refuses to do so because those that have a signed commitment to this group can`t. My Senator,Senator Lindsey Graham has broken this pledge and I call on others to ask their Members of Congress to do the same,so they can get something done.
    2 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Karen Ducote
  • End Congressional Favoritism
    To urge a Constitutional Amendment preventing Congress from passing laws to which it makes itself or its members exempt. To encourage greater responsibility for the consequences of legislation which either does not impact them and/or gives them privileges not provided to those who elect them to office.
    3 of 100 Signatures
    Created by Paul W Sharkey
  • Congress Term Limits
    All congress members should have one 6 year term. One third of the congressmen would be elected every two years. They would go back to their home states with NO RETIREMENT AND NO MEDICAL INSURANCE when their 6 year term is over. When they reach retirement age, just like all of the rest of us , they would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare just like all the rest of us.
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    Created by Robert E. Gerberick