Currently in MA there is a fifty dollar head injury surcharge applied to speeding tickets.

Psychiatry, behaviorlists, and big coorporations who create "disorders" and sell Drugs should be regulated. Allopathic medicine should be held in the same light as Integrative Medicine and Complimentary "Alternative" Medicine (CAM). This industry should be regulated by a panel of doctors from many methods of practice. This would enhance our countries Health Care programs and focus on Preventitive Health as well as overall lifestyle choices.

Some 11 million homeowners are currently underwater in their mortgages. Reducing their principal balances could enable them to avoid foreclosure, thus propping up house prices and boosting economic growth. Advocates say Fannie and Freddie could facilitate writedowns at practically no cost to taxpayers, because the entities are already on the hook for the risk of default anyway — and because a growing economy reduces that risk.

End Bush-Era Tax Cuts

Adopt the 26 March 2012 recommendations based on the ACLU's petition to the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting a "patterns & practices" investigation of Las Vegas Metro Police Department.

The Impact Aid Program fulfills, in part, the promises made by the Federal Government in the Treaty of 1868 to provide teachers and school facilities on the Navajo Nation. Reject any further cuts to Impact Aid funding levels and support the NAFIS reauthorization proposal when it is introduced.

Women are not included in the US Constitution, that's why we needed a separate amendment to vote. Justice Antonin Scallia stated that women aren't covered by the "Equal Protection" clause of the 14th Amendment. Any rights given to women by Congress can be taken away by Congress. We need three more states to ratify the ERA and we can breath easier. It's now or never!

It is shocking that in the year 2012 our court system across the nation discriminates against the mentally disabled. The Americans with disabilities Act of 1990 clearly states that all public and private entities have a DUTY to grant Reasonable Accommodations for the disabled. The physically disabled are accommodated as SOP while the mentally disabled are ignored. The only useful accommodation in the courts would be Mandatory Appointment of Counsel!

Mr. Hawes was wrongfully arrested and charged with a murder that occurred on a West Baltimore street on July 21, 1993. After Mr. Hawes' conviction at trial, he filed a petition under the Maryland Public Information Act to get the homicide file for the deceased. Mr. Hawes discovered that exculpatory evidence in nature (negated Mr. Hawes from guilt) was never disclosed to him/attorney during the trial,and it stated in pertinent part that "The eyewitness recollection of the event is simply not credible. She describes as only seeing the shooter's back. The State's Attorney office violated the law (Brady Violation) by failing to disclosed this police report that negated Mr. Hawes from guilt. Since Mr. Hawes trial there have been several other convicted men who has gotten their sentences reversed, a new trial, due to errors committed by the same Judge who presided over Mr. Hawes case, Hon. Elizabeth Bothe. See: Anthony Brown v. State, case no.: 192321020, PCPA 9743; Damion Graham v. State, case no.: 28910321, 22, to name a few. THIS MAN HAS SPENT THE PAST 19 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT! Mr. Tracey Hawes #239770 can be contacted at: PO BOX 534 Jessup, Maryland 20794

Kettleman City is a tiny Latino farmworker community in California's San Joaquin Valley that is polluted by a gigantic toxic waste dump, pesticides, diesel pollution and toxic-contaminated drinking water. Its residents suffer from horrifying rates of birth defects, miscarriages, cancer, asthma, and other illnesses. The health crisis in Kettlemant City is a reflection of environmental injustice -- low-income communities of color like Kettleman City have been targeted for years for the siting of dirty industries and toxic waste. The State Department of Toxic Substances in California and the US Environmental Protection Agency are getting ready to approve permits for the expansion of the Chemical Waste Management hazardous waste and PCB landfill, despite the violations, health crisis and racial discrimination in the permitting process - and we need your help to stop the permits and protect the people of Kettleman City! Please sign this petition to the DTSC, the USEPA and California Governer Jerry Brown to demand they deny new permits for the hazardous waste landfill, and end environmental racism now. For more information contact Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected] 415-284-5600 www.facebook.com/Greenaction4EJ

Congress and the US Government have taken a stance of revoking the constitutional rights of individuals, in favor of detaining people without trial or access to legal rights. Essentially, anyone can be labeled a terror suspect. After being sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for challenging illegal oil company domestic land sales, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, an unidentified Congressman directed the Bureau of Prisons to place DeChristopher in isolation. In the United States, an unjust, unauthorized investigation of a patriot for exposing illegal land bids for corporate profit!

HB2199 allows companies to do audits and keep the information in it, including violations of law, secret. The information in the audit cannot be used to prosecute them for violations of law either. Please call the governor and ask her to veto it. Every now and then she pays attention to the number of calls that come in 1-(800) 253-0883. Prevent the governor and the state from protecting polluters. Ask the governor to VETO this bill, which does not serve our state in a positive manner!