Congress cannot vote on their own pay raises, it must be voted on every 4 years

Fifty countries, including the EU nations and even China, already label genetically engineered foods. Recent surveys show that 90% of people favor labeling, with 81 percent "strongly [in] favor" and bipartisan support: 93 percent of Democrats, 90 percent of independents, and 89 percent of Republicans agree that GMOs should be labeled.

I am half-way through a Master's Degree program and just got news that I am no longer eligible for my student plus loan due to recent changes in the government. Because my home went into foreclosure this year I can not get a student loan. If I pull out of school because I can't pay right now I can not file bankruptcy to cover the previous loans because the Banks are protected and students are not. Either way I can't go further and I can't stop without major consequences due to these laws.

I am half-way through a Master's Degree program and just got new that I am no longer eligible for my student plus loan due to recent changes in the government. Because my home went into foreclosure this year I can not get a student loan. If I pull out of school because I can't pay right now I can not file bankruptcy to cover the previous loans because the Banks are protected and students are not. Either way I can't go further and I can't stop without major consequences due to these laws.

Americans work daily only to not make ends meet financially. We Americans need a pay raise.

Over at least the past 130 years or so, a series of US Supreme Court decisions have incrementally afforded more and more rights to corporations, to the point that they are now legally considered people in the eyes of US jurisprudence. A long term, determined series of lawsuits should be undertaken to weaken and finally terminate this flawed fundamental principle of US law. We the flesh and blood people and citizens of the United States call on all public interest lawyers, legal organizations and other interested parties to coordinate and support such a strategy.

I was recently denied a student loan due to a foreclosure on my home this year. I was told the government changed the rules and is not making it harder for students to get the Plus loan. Also if a student has to file bankruptcy the banks are protected and the student can not include a student loan in a bankruptcy. With the recent economic decline and more people trying to go back and get re-educated the system is set up completely against self improvement and the next generation getting an education. We need the government to protect people not big banks.

So-called 'Monsanto riders,' quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require - not just allow, but require - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech producer has to do is ask.

Petitioning for needed change is okay. Making that change by passing an Initiative is better. SignOn.org should have a process for signing Initiatives, as well as petitions

This petition is about correcting of automotive lighting function, and specifically of headlight aiming and function, and function of automotive tail and brake lights. I have been too often been blinded by miss-aimed headlights. I have frequently noticed cars with missing and malfunctioning tail, brake and turn signal lights.

The Department of Transportation are not medical proffessionals, and should not have the right to arbitraily allow drivers, pilots and engineers to use one Doctor-prescribed controlled substance while disallowing another.

In the eyes of the law Corporation are considered people. As such they should be treated no differently than individuals when they commit crimes. Ex: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air andd to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said. In this instance the corporation and the executives involved should be eligible for the death penalty based on the severity of the crime. French Example: French law provides for the prosecution of companies as legal entities in a similar way as an individual offender. Under article 121-2 of the Penal Code, «legal persons, with the exception of the State, are criminally liable for the offences committed on their account by their organs or representatives». As implied from article 121-2 of the Penal Code, companies may be held liable through imputation for acts caused by a natural person, so long as the natural person is acting as its organ or representative. A company may be prosecuted for most of the same offences as an individual offender. Therefore, the differences in the prosecution of an individual and a company result from practical realities, as detailed below. IN OTHER WORDS, IF CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE CONSIDERED NATURAL PERSONS THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME LAWS AND PENALTIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THOSE CRIMES