Fully implement the Affordable Care Act in Ohio as soon as possible. Protect Ohioans with preexisting conditions, the youngest, as well as those working poor and unemployed. This will lower the rates for those of us who do pay insurance premiums.

Currently, most egg-laying hens live their whole lives crushed in battery cages where they can't move or spread a wing. These cages are so cruel that they have been banned by the European Union, as well as by California and Michigan. Next week, the House of Representatives will vote on HR 3798, an Amendment based on a historic agreement between the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers. HR 3798 will replace battery cages with enriched colony cages, where hens will have more space and can express some natural behaviors. Egg cartons will be labelled, saying whether they come from caged, enriched caged, cage-free, or free-range hens. This measure also facilitates interstate commerce for farmers who currently face a patchwork of standards. Hens I've met live free on small farms and stables, and I love them; they are sweet, friendly, social, and sensitive; they can be funny and also brave, in protecting their chicks. I can't bear to think of hens just like them tortured their whole lives in battery cages where muscle, bones, and minds atrophy. We have a historic chance to change that; please help! Egg producers, animal advocates, veterinarians, scientists, and consumers all agree, it's the right thing to do! Please sign your support right away, as the House of Representatives may deliberate and vote as early as July 11. Ask Congress to vote HR 3798 into law.

There is a discrimination in how social security is taxed for the rich and average people. It should be taxed at the same rate irrespective of how much one makes. Someone making $110K per year in taxable income pays approx $8400 in social security/disability taxes and someone making a million dollar in taxable income also pays approx. $8400 in social security taxes. This is very unfair taxation. Not only tax payers are unfairly treated but even the social security is loosing billions of dollars in funds every year. A person making $1M/year should be paying the same percentage on all of their taxable income.

Why should the public be denied access to quality health care?

Stop killing the whales.

If the governor do not accept the obamahealthcare we as senior citizen will be seriously affected

Many seniors who are eligible for social security at 62 continue working just so that they do not lose their health care benefits. Some of these workers would benefit from early retirement due to current health conditions. This places a strain on employers who have less productive employees and it reduces openings for others who can not find jobs.

Limiting national election campaigns to 9 months will reduce the amount of money spent campaigning. This works well in other countries. It can work here too.

My petition is about the excessive amount of money spent on political campaigns. Only a reasonable amount, sufficient to communicate with constituents, would be allowed to be spent. I'm affected because my small donation and others like it cannot compete with the attention and influence large donations buy for wealthy individuals or groups.

Congress is in a position to effect the lives of others and should and should have the Health Insurance, they should also have the sick days and vacations as most of the public is operating under and should have no other priviledges not afforded the working class

Although Al Queda may always be a threat, that threat has clearly been reduced. With their leadership decimated, and a reduction of troop presence in Afghanistan set to begin in 2014, the security situation is clearly improving. We feel it is time to begin returning America's security status to pre 9/11 levels, beginning with the repeal of the invasive Patriot Act. We ask President Obama to make this a significant campaign promise for his second term.

Saving railroad retirement as a private funding and not a social source. The benefits of railroad retirement are built around the fact that railroad employees have contributed to the American economy through the means of rail transport since the beginning of American business. This is rightfully to be protected.