I am concerned about Republican Governors owning monied interests in private businesses they are pushing on the people of their state through laws and policies to replace government agencies. For example Rick Scott, Governor of Florida wants all state workers to take urine drug screens from a company that he owns monied interest in. Rick Scott, Govenor of Florida and Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona also want to privatize prisons. This sets up corruption that is unimaginiable in that people who make laws about who goes to prison are also lining their pockets with taxpayer money supporting those prisons. Also, the more people that are in prison, the more money they make. Could this be why Jan Brewer is so intererested in placing illegal immigrants in prison? This is not free enterprise and this is not democracy. It is a very scarey type of facism and needs to be nipped in the bud now instead of later.

The congress has a golden health package, they work for us! What's good for them is good for us....no differences....

The US Senate and House of Representatives have our health care future in their hands. A number of them believe that the US cannot "afford"quality health care for all Americans, while at the same time they enjoy a level of health care for themselves and their families that we can only dream about.This means that what they're voting on does not affect them, or their families. They and all their family members get preventative care to stay in good health,no caps on maximum benefits and easy access to the doctors of their own choice. If our govenrment cannot afford to give you and I the same level of benefits our elected officials receive, then our politicians should get no better health care than the average wage earner in the US. The US Labor Department and Health and Human Services can set the maximum benefit based on the reports they already have. Politicians are elected to serve us,and protect our interest. They have nothing to lose if health care is not resolved for all Americans.

The American Dream being crushed by Our Own Party. We will all suffer for this.

Get going on setting up exchanges in Missouri

Branded as a “trade deal” by its corporate proponents, the TPP would actually establish new corporate rights and privileges that would include permanent constraints on government regulation. These include new corporate safeguards to ease job offshoring, assert control over natural resources, and severely limit the government's ability to regulate financial services, land use, food safety, natural resources, energy, tobacco, healthcare and more.

Stop employers like DirecTV that paids technicians by the job they complete only, but in many, many cases these technicians dont get paid over time, driving time, jobs that were canseled or rescheduled by customers, jobs where the customers were not home or jobs that were not able to be completed for reason that are out of the technicians control, these technicians work long hours, but they dont get pay all the hrs of work, and the employers like DirecTV are getting away with that, what we need is a law that forces all employers to pay the employees by the hour their work insted of piece rates.

The price of oil is set by the Futures Market, not by some non-partisan entity that calculates the supply and demand of that commodity. It is estimated that 1/3 the price of gas and diesel is due to speculation on Wall Street, and the hoarding of oil by large pension and hedge funds in storage facilities, tankers and containers. This must end, as the consumer pays this extortion rate through every gallon of gas he spends that is syphoned off through this speculative process.

Yes, I consider myself a political junkie but realized when seeing the two page explanation in Time magazine that I didn't know some of the more important parts of the bill.

Sen. Al Franken already beat me to it. Showboat:) California has started one if I remember. However, As a U.S. Veteran who receives FREE Dental/Medical the world is watching and so is the omnicient in the sky.

The United State Postal Service USPS is attempting to close post offices, cutting jobs of workers and the many people who service the PO. Congress in its effort to privatize the PO made them pay for 75 years of pensions costing 5.5 B a year. Rural PO's particularly in impoverished counties are vital to residents without transportation or bank accounts.

With the recent decrease in the amount of semesters that a student can receive the Pell Grant it is getting harder for students to obtain the college degrees that are becoming necessary in today's society. There are many programs, especially in the STEM fields, that require specific course sequences that are becoming more difficult to finish in the normal time frame due to increasing standards. In order to ensure that students can achieve their goals without going into serious debt we need to restore Pell Grant eligibility to a term of 18 semesters.