We need an amedment to ensure that Congress is thinking of the people when they make laws. This petition is for a new amendment to the constitution that would state that Congress cannot make a law that they themselves do not have to adhere to or cannot make a law that applies to only them and not to the people.

Knock knock? Who’s there? Your worst nightmare, the Buildings Department and he wants to search your home. He isn’t wearing a police uniform. If he was, he would have to produce a search warrant, obtained only with evidence of probable cause of wrongdoing. Think it can’t happen to you? Think again and you have every reason to be afraid. This is a sweeping trend across America. In financially strapped towns and counties, Building Depts. are sidestepping homeowners’ 4th and 5th Amendment Constitutional rights. Warrantless searches are conducted by building inspectors to find as many violations as possible. Violations include the "Historic review of the property file" which can hold you accountable for work completed on your home that was grandfathered in, done before you purchased it and is documented in building files and on official county property records. Costs can rise to $10,000 or more. Homeowners’ lives are disrupted with short deadlines and court dates. They are put at risk of foreclosure, which would further lower property values. The method being used to increase revenue is a totally unfair and discriminatory backdoor tax. For example, in NY, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman has repeatedly cited the revenue generated by the Buildings Dept. in his State of the Town speeches, starting in his 2005 address: "Our daily operations are generating more revenue. Our Buildings Department brought in over $2 million in permit revenue in 2004, while our Code and Building inspectors, with the help of aggressive prosecution from our Town Attorney’s office, has increased fine revenue some 500% over 2003 numbers." This has been such a successful revenue generator, Nassau County has shuttered half the police precincts in the county while hiring at the Building Dept. They are hiring former police, particularly as Commissioner of the Building Dept. The current ad for the position lists qualifications as a minimum of 20 years in law enforcement and a degree in criminal justice, with no experience in architecture or buildings. This explains why homeowners are being treated as law breakers, but without any of the protections law breakers receive, such as the requirement to be provided with legal representation to defend themselves and the need to show probable cause to get a search warrant to search their homes. Please sign this petition to stop these injustices and reform Building Dept. Practices so they stop treating homeowners as lawbreakers and stop issuing violations for grandfathered improvements, which leaves the homeowner needing to pay for a costly legal fight. Don’t let this nightmare happen to you. For additional information on constitutional rights, grandfather clause, court cases, visit Homeowners FightBack Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003849905305

Since our armed services receive special treatment because they are putting their lives in danger for the public. I'd like to start a petition requesting that 1st responders also receive similar benefits. They, also, put their lives in danger for all of us.

**The report from National Senior Citizens Law Center, (May, 2012) citing the CA Department of Health Care Services' own quality assessment, shows seven plans earned a rating of 1 (poor) out of 5 stars in overall Medi-Cal performance.

Disc golf is incompatible with current use of the open space trails at "Blue Ball Park"---it would pose a safety hazard to walkers and runners, and would cause severe damage to a fragile ecosystem that is recovering from its years as a dairy ranch.

TransCanada representatives are distributing business cards that display the FFA logo. This implies that FFA supports building the Keystone XL pipeline, which threatens America's agriculture economy and risks the safety of the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides 27% of America's agricultural irrigation water. TransCanada has bullied farmers and ranchers in Nebraska and other states, and their actions are not worthy of the high standards of leadership FFA cultivates in young people. TransCanada's donations to FFA will be used in educational curriculum that will influence the minds of countless young people across the country. TransCanada's sponsorship is a blatant attempt to buy support by exploiting FFA's positive image and reputation in rural communities.

A powerful network of right-wing Catholics is trying to ban one of President Obama's cabinet secretaries from speaking at Georgetown University. The Cardinal Newman Society previously led the opposition to President Obama's speech at Notre Dame three years ago, and tried unsuccessfully to stop Archbishop Desmond Tutu from delivering the commencement address at Gonzaga University this year. So far Georgetown University is standing strong in the face of demands that the university cancel a speech by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services. But with the issue already making headlines, we need to show Georgetown that everyday people of faith are united against the Religious Right's efforts to turn Catholic college campuses into a battleground for partisan culture wars. Sign the petition and tell Georgetown: Stand strong and let Secretary Sebelius speak.

We missed the opportunity to regulate bank trading and JPMorgan the poster bank had a $2+ billion loss from a failed hedging strategy. The bank executives have not learned anything, and their company is too big for them to manage.

People should be concernd about the length of time members of Congress are remaining in office. It creates a situation where the longer they stay the more power they obtain. Also, the lobbyists are able to get close to them. There is no reason that they stay as long as they do. Also, with term limits,there would be no need for pensions.

Community organizations across the State of California who serve people with disabilities are going to lose millions of dollars that they have been promised from the Department of Developmental Services. We need your voice to help us tell them NO! Enough broken promises, we need you to be held accountable to what you say.

If Congress were to pass a bill that states: ALL Banking industries personal if wanting to continue doing business, MUST give EACH person a direct contact, email and fax number. Its understood that faxes can be used as legal documents. If WE (Americans) want an equal voice in the mortgage process. This must happen immediately. It will slow down and focus corruption.... more easily...Aside from transparency and full Disclosure up front

Individuals who qualify for social security disability on either their parent's or their grandparent's benefits are discriminated against when it comes to marriage. These are people who became disabled before the age of 22 and did not work enough qualifying hours (ie tax paying job) to have enough of their own social security benefits to qualify. When they sign a marriage certificate they automatically lose all of their disability benefits, including monthly stipend and medicare health insurance. How is this fair? Is the assumption that once you're married your spouse can provide monthly income and health insurance for the disabled person, or that they're any less disabled? We need to fix the broken system that prevents disabled persons from marrying as this is flat out discrimination.