Democrats spearheading legislation to limit lobbying to all interests have fair share of influence big or small.

Our congress has done nothing to help our nations decline. It is self serving and out of control . We need a leadership that has compassion for the struggles of our working class , an edcution that is superior instead of failing , and a system that meets our senior citizens needs . there is a saying theres to many chiefs and not enough indians . so eliminate the congress we now have and put the govennors of each state to work , maybe then they won't have time to play around on tax payers money .

The Tax Code is too complicated to understand. Corporations have an advantage over middle class America because they maintain a staff of lawyers and certified public accountants to avoid paying taxes.

Public Housing in MN needs a minimum of $400 million in repairs and renovation around the state. Low income seniors, disabled persons, families and refugees are living in subsidized housing in every MN county that was constructed 40-50 years ago and is falling apart. If this is housing is allowed to continue to deteriorate, it will be impossible to afford to replace it at today's cost. Many low-income people would face homelessness as these are homes where they pay rent at 30% of their income, whatever that is, sometimes only social security. Repairing this housing would create about 7,000 new construction jobs and save thousands of on-going public housing mainentance and housing service jobs in Minnesota. Bonding for public housing repair is a critical homelessness prevention, job creating, and statewide infrastructure investment in every MN county that we cannot afford to neglect. Everyone knows a Minnesotan who lives in this housing or would be homeless. Everyone in MN knows a construction worker who needs to go back to work.

This is address to the readers of danica, an online fiction writer, who owned biskiits.livejournal.com A background on danica: She brought to us the wonderful and well crafted Best I Ever Had, Chicharong Flower, The Prince's Homecoming, 7 Days: Menelli's Toughest Mission and numerous other original fictions and fan fictions. The issue: Last June 14, 2012, as I was informed, biskiits.livejournal.com was purged due to inappropriate content as reported by four anonymous reports. danica, as she claimed in her last entry, was given a mere forty-eight hours to back up everything in her community. We, her loyal readers, know that she never once wrote any NC-17 stories, whether involving sexual themes or violent themes. It is proven then that the administrators of livejournal did not make an effort to check and read each entry she submitted for the last seven years as they only relied on the reports without confirming if those were reliable or not. I emailed danica and we are yet to receive her reply. A word I got from her beta-reader, Quinn, confirmed that: 'She will reupload everything she posted before but she's still looking for a good site to host them. She's busy with her school so it's actually least of her priorities.' As a return of gratitude, let us appeal to the administrators of livejournal to re-evaluate their decision. Please follow this format: For the first name: Type in your livejournal account name For the last name: Type livejournal.com Let us make our voices be heard.

It is incomprehensible that underwater testing carried out by the navy will be allowed knowing the damage it will do to our precious whale and dolphin populations. We as a nation and society in general are cutting off our noses to spite our faces. Please use a safer form of testing and abandon this current project now!

Stop the US navy from killing whales and dolphins and deafening them by the use of sound systems in the oceans near CA.

A letter writing campaign by ordinary citizens, asking legislators to sign a Pledge of Reform, prior to the 2012 elections, could remove the dysfunction and negative influence of money from our government. Public participation with the COMMITTEE TO REFORM CONGRESS at www.ctrc.us/ could force Congress to reform.

It's all about dividing the "United States" into fifty Cantons, patterned after the Swiss model. The residents of each Canton would vote for three main purposes that the Canton population stands (and works!) for, like carpentering, or enghineering, or 'you-name-it'. Banks would be limited to dealing within each Canton (i.e., no Inter-Cantonese deals.) Each Canton would have it's own militia, and would provide volunteers to serve the National defense. And, of course, whatever else the Canton freely votes for.

I feel we the people need to be able to know what our government is doing in most cases.i feel congress should have more time to review bills before being passed or denied in the house and senate. the public should be able to see all bills and executive orders word for word detail and have easy access to it online and in person as soon as the bill has been written for free.the federal reserve should be audited so we know where our tax dollars are going to and every detail towards our budget,funds and related areas.we should have stats for politicians just like we have for anything else.meaning we should be able to see each representatives bills they have made,supports or doesnt support and what they have done since they have been in office,strictly stats and facts without political bias.

Congress is ineffective. There's too much money in politics. The power of the incumbency is too great. We need to limit the time in office of politicians to 3 terms as a rep and 2 terms as a senator. Under the current system we are all losing due to greed and self serving interests.

Leaks from the secret negotiations reveal that multinationals are the clear winners, at the expense of ordinary people, in the most draconian manners. Examples include the ability for large Pharma companies to eliminate generic, lower costing drugs from being available; allowing greater leniency for multinational companies to, for example pollute, or not replant than the same type of company that is domestic due to different "laws" applying. If NAFTA took important power from the people, it's believed that this agreement, set to be passed before election day, will be a coup for corporations, to the detriment of our country.