In the 8th Grade at Cabin John Middle School, there are only two choices for English - "Advanced" or On-Level. If you get an "A" or "B" in the Advanced class, it appears on your high school transcript (as a non-honors elective) impacting your high school GPA. If you get a "C," it does not appear on your high school transcript. Thus students who are not quite able to achieve an "A" are better off slacking off and aiming for a "C," rather than impacting their high school GPA with a "B." Is this REALLY what we want to be teaching our 8th graders??!!

The California Family Court System needs to start doing what it was designed to do: act in the best interest of our children. This isn't about Mothers' Rights or Fathers' Rights- it is about the rights of our children to live in a safe, healthy and nurturing environment. The courts are too focused on being quick and fair with 50/50 custody splits instead of focusing on what is best for the children.

Texas has signaled that it would rather lose $35 million annually in federal help to provide 130,000 poor women access to health care than allow Planned Parenthood to receive part of the funding. Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs signed a rule Thursday that officially bans Planned Parenthood and abortion provider affiliates from getting funding from Texas’ largely successful Women’s Health Program. We must call on the State Senate to repeal the law that makes this possible so that we may protect the health of women in Texas. Especially those who are unable to seek healthcare without state and federal aid.

Foreign call centers not only ship jobs abroad, but they endanger our confidential personal information because they operate without U.S. data regulation. You can tell lawmakers to support the U.S. call center bill. The bill would protect consumers and build jobs in America by: 1. Creating a customers' right to know—Ending the secrecy about call center locations, so outsourcers and offshorers can't hide anymore. 2. Forcing companies that outsource abroad to return federal funding—Because our hard-earned tax dollars shouldn't go to support corporations that ship American jobs to foreign countries. 3. Giving you the right to be transferred to a US-based operator.

I pledge to vote to recall Scott Walker and reclaim Wisconsin.

To receive any form of State Assistance and/or Unemployment Benefit, All persons 10 to 65 must have drug testing every other month to continue receiving benefits. And the state, or hospital where testing is conducted, must have the test results to the Department of Social and Health Services within 24 hours. Within the 2nd 24 hours, the results must be reviewed by an authority who will either approve the next check or send assistance receiver a form notifying them no check will be provided by tax payer money until the period following the next drug test scheduled for two months out. Everyone should benefit from this change....druggies? Maybe they will consider giving up drugs, seek help or a job. Taxpayers? Save thousands and thousands. If benefits are relied on to provide income then recepients should be treated like an employee who would need to provide clean drug tests before being hired. Testing results need to include everything from marijuana to the worst possible drug. No doctor prescription for marijuana use eliminates the discontinuance of benefits unless a physician verifies the recepient has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. This petition should be submitted to City, County, State and Federal governments. And I would appreciate acknowledgement this is petition request is accepted or denied.

Hawaii needs to be a pioneer in the environmental game. We need to make bold moves, to be a leader in game-changing efforts. While the less-populated islands have approved moves like plastic bans, the impact of Oahu adopting such a ban would be incredible and vast.

We are trying to prevent the addition of a new Asphalt Plant in our backyards within a few hundred feet of homes with children and adults with breathing and health issues. The street where the Plant is proposed is already dangerous and a lot of slow moving Dump Trucks will make it even worse. Homeowners in this area have suffered enough with falling property values. When an Asphalt Plant moves in, property can fall as much as 45% an amount that would be devastating to homeowners in this area.

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the natural gas drilling technique known as "fracking." It is time that government serve and protect the people NOT big business.

We ask to support the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) which would create a pathway to citizenship for thousands of young students who were brought to the United States years ago as children.

If you are a co-signer on a student loan with SallieMae, they will not permit the co-signer to renegotiate the repayment terms that the co-signer can afford. They refuse to take partial payments even when the student is chronically unemployed and the co-signer is on a fixed income.

Your Governor has done it again. He has allowed his personal feelings and beliefs to stop him from passing a law that would allow same sex individuals to be in civil union just like 2 people of the opposite sex. Who are we to judge?