Help give women a voice by supporting the International Women’s Freedom Act. This bill will help strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of individuals persecuted and denied their rights in foreign countries on account of gender. The promotion of women’s rights will help provide economic, multilateral, military, and export assistance to those who are targets of severe women’s rights violations.

The Microenterprise Empowerment and Job Creation Act would provide assistance for the purpose of expanding the availability of credit, savings, and other financial services to microfinance and microenterprise clients. These individuals are those living in poverty that otherwise are unable to access such services through the private sector. Through such assistance, these individuals will be able to increase access to such services through education, training, and mentoring.

Campaign finance reform. Do not allow any individuals, groups, corporations, PACs, etc. to contribute to anyone running for public office. Public finance and free tv and air time to candidates. Limit the campaigns in time: no 2 year campaigns for president.

Help put a stop to worldwide child trafficking. The Child Protection Compact Act is a bill that provides the United States with assistance for the purpose of eradicating severe forms of trafficking of children in eligible countries. This Act authorizes the Secretary of State to provide assistance through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to countries with a significant prevalence of trafficking in children. In order to receive these resources, eligible countries must enter into a Child Protection Compact with the United States to support policies and programs to eradicate the trafficking of children.

The Water for the World Act calls for the United States to help in a global effort to bring sustainable access to clean water and sanitation to the world’s poor through direct funding, development activities, and partnerships within six years of this Act’s enactment. The actions of the Act places emphasis on providing safe, affordable, and sustainable drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene, while supporting the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal on access to safe drinking water.

We have been wasting lives and money in Afghanistan for so long that now even our "friends" are shooting at us. It is time to bring everyone home without delay.

In order for our elected officials to truly understand what it's like to be a member of the working poor we propose that ALL elected officials receive minimum wage and pay for their own medical benefits and retirement plans like the rest of normal, hard-working Americans. This amendment to the constitution will save the government money by reducing the cost of government salaries to the most fairly administered wage standard available: the minimum wage.

Current federal laws and policies do not allow a process for "Good Samaritans" to improve water quality through clean-up or mitigation of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines that involves the long-term discharge of water without fear of longterm financial liability and being subject to citizen lawsuits if improved water quality does not fully meet Clean Water Act/TMDL standards. There are hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines in the U.S., many over 50-100 years old, and for which no responsible party is known. Allowing Good Samaritans to measurably and demonstratably improve water quality where there may be acidic and metal-laden waters draining from abandoned mine features will have positive impacts by creating jobs, and REDUCING costs for providing potable drinking water in headwaters communities. In addition, improving water quality could provide many significant positive economic benefits such as to improving fisheries and functional habitat, improved agricultural yields, enhanced opportunities for industrial and municipal uses, improving outdoor recreational opportunities, and providing primary and secondary job opportunities. Removing toxic metals such as cobalt, zinc, aluminum, cadmium, and others could provide a source of metals that can in turn be used for manufacturing solar panels, batteries, or other components of the new energy economy.

Putting useless people to work

Stop or change the FCAT, and the new scoring system which will affect many children!

TO PROTECT EVERYBODY IN CONGO

The EC was created by our founding fathers to represent those who did not live and/or could not travel to Washington DC where they could hear live speaches from candidates. This was over 200 years ago when there was NO MEDIA! Now media is within everyone's handheld device, desktop, laptop, Television, magazines and newspapers. The Electoral College served it's purpose in the 17 and 1800's but the popular vote is all we want!