According to the U.S. Navy's own estimates, the use of high-frequency underwater sound for testing off the coast of California and beyond will kill 1,800 whales and dolphins and deafen 15,900 more over the next five years.

There is a need to establish minimum discloser requirements so all voters recieve the same basic information on a perspective candidate for office. Currently, this is up to each candidate resulting in uneaqual, disjointed, misleading information. The minimum requirement will provide standard insight into a candidates positions, qualifications & financial management.

California led the way in including people with disabilities and seniors in all of our communities by requiring that public spaces be physically accessible. Decades before the ADA was adopted, California put disability civil rights into law and regulation. Now, with no new studies – but with lots of pressure by certain business interests – the California Building Standards Commission will vote on a proposal by the new State Architect to reduce decades-old access requirements in a rushed 'emergency' vote this Thursday, July 19th. Tell the CBSC not to push people with disabilities and seniors back into physically segregated conditions.

Children should be educated, not incarcerated, the "school to prison pipeline," a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules, while high-stakes testing programs encourage educators to push out low-performing students to improve their schools' overall test scores. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline.

Pennsylvania has passed a law requiring photo ID to vote. It affects Seniors...The Poor and Minorities. The Majotiyl leadr of the State House claime that Pennsylvania is now gauranteed to Romney.

Under the Affordable Healthcare Act, Employers are responsible for enrolling employees and their families for healthcare coverage, including determining who will be subsidised because of low wages and who will opt out of coverage for what reasons. In addition, buying insurance coverages from certain insurers may affect each employee differently and not for their best interests.This takes a lot of time for employers and may not represent the needs of each employee. Directing the IRS to take over this function increases the privacy of every employee no matter what their wage is; reduces the cost of analyzing which coverage to buy, contracting with the insurer, communicating each benefit to each employee and their family and paying for each employee's covereage with each insurance company. Because of the mass purchasing power of the government, it allows the IRS to negotiate better rates and coverage with each insurance company who will participate in the plan and in collecting employee contributions directly through income tax forms and payments. The major benefit is that individual employees will be better informed of their benefits and choices, have greater privacy for their financial status, and the small employer will have much less costs and responsibility and a reduction of errors due to participating in the plan as a middle-man between the employee and the government. Finally, using the IRS in this fashion will provide greater efficiency and less cost to the government.

Republicans have tried to repeal Obamacare 32 times... And failed. Healthcare reform is needed and needed now not later! My employer just decided once again to lower the amount in which they would pay. Now my healthcare insurance for one month is around $600, co-pays $45 and average prescription costs $50. My husband and I work every day and I want to have the same insurance the people I elected have! Why should our elected officials have better insurance than the average American's? So Stop Repealing Healthcare reform, wasting the money of hardworking Americans and start working for the people which elected you! Stop calling it Obamacare because it should be called America's Care! All elected officials regardless of party get to work and start taking care of the people that elected you in the first place!

verizon is now charging a $30.00 upgrade fee when you upgrade your phone. why should people have to pay yet again for a phone that is not free and sign a contract for two years and have to pay to leave the company... what a rip off

Everyone in the United States is being poisoned by the fluoridation of our water supply! It is against our Civil Rights to be medicated without consent! Because we all consume different amounts of water, the dosage is not controlled. Everyone from newborns, to people with compromised immune systems are being chemically treated with fluoride without sufficient need! Please refer to the following website for more information: www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm

I cannot stand every time there is an election that the amount of money spent just keeps getting higher. Congress has tried to stop this but it never seems to change. And the elected officials never get to do their work because they are always fund raising for the next election.

There is a Pledge you can sign on line called The Anti_Norgusist Pledge.

The peace and beauty of Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota inspired me when I was there. It also inspired TR to launch the American Conservation Movement. Ironically, this unique and historical place is now threatened by encroaching oil and mineral development. I'm calling on President Obama to exercise the Antiquities Act to create a protective zone around Elkhorn Ranch by making it a National Monument.